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Beavercreek man charged with shooting Portland federal courthouse January 13 2021
Cody Melby had attended Salem Stop the Steal protest prior to allegedly firing shots into the Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
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An armed man upset about the results of the 2020 presidential election fired five shots into the side of Portland s federal courthouse on Friday, Jan. 8, according to court documents filed in federal court Sunday.
Cody Levi Melby, 39, of Beavercreek, reportedly climbed over the temporary security fence erected last summer to keep racial justice protesters outside the federal courthouse before he opened fire on the building, the documents state. No one was injured in the attack.
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Lives Changed by an Uprising It will be impossible to forget the sight of mothers in gas masks confronting the federal government. Christopher Frison (Wesley Lapointe) Updated December 23, 2020 For more than 100 consecutive nights, from May through October, Portlanders gathered in the city streets to protest the killing of George Floyd and violence committed by police against Black people. President Donald Trump sent federal officers to quell the unrest. Even more people demonstrated. Tear gas couldn t send them home eventually, the smoke from wildfires would. The crowds of thousands dissipated. The groundswell of support receded. The protest movement fractured, and some its members grew fixated on vandalism. But the Black Lives Matter protests defined and galvanized Portland: It will be impossible to forget