Federal agents fire tear gas as protesters smash windows at local Democratic Party headquarters in Portland
The Globe and Mail Mike Baker and Hallie Golden PORTLAND, Ore. LINDSEY WASSON/Reuters Protesters in the Pacific Northwest smashed windows at a Democratic Party headquarters, marched through the streets and burned an American flag Wednesday in a strident challenge by anti-fascist and racial-justice protesters to the new administration of President Joe Biden, whose promised reforms, they declared, “won’t save us.” In Portland, lines of federal agents in camouflage – now working under the Biden administration – blanketed streets with tear gas and unleashed volleys of welt-inducing p...