Nothing new here to many. It seems as though Portland is just not as cool as it used to be. In fact, my self admitted communist sister moved from Portland a couple years ago because it was going to shit.
I have a few articles about how well the law is enforced there. This is from May Day this year.
"The screaming carried blocks away. So did the music—loud, deliberately so, meant to agitate. My fellow reporter and friend Katie Daviscourt and I made our way toward the ICE facility in South Portland on the evening of May 1st, having taken precautions with our appearance that journalists covering these crowds have learned are necessary. Once inside the crowd, the smell of weed hung in the air. The signs were everywhere—socialist propaganda, workers' rights messaging, insignia of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
"The results of this agitated mob moving through Portland's streets for the socialist May Day protest: a reporter with a concussion, mass trespassing and attempts to breach security on federal property, burning American flags, and a car bomb that destroyed a Portland landmark in business for almost a century and a half. Domestic terrorism, fueled by the rhetoric of the revolutionary Marxists who run this city. "
"The Compromise:" What Portland's DSA City Council Built on May Day
