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Down several blocks. just kind of in a uncontrolled way at this point. >> yeah. i mean, that's what seattle worries about, what is happening in portland. there's a group known as black block, or anarchist, if you will, that tend to get rowdy and viole violent. i want to read you some of what the portland police have been saying. a few moments ago, they tweeted out saying the anarchists had dablged windows and property, started fires, attacking police. if you do not need to go downtown portland, do not go. they are telling people to stay away from downtown, portland. they have canceled the perm...

Saw a flare being fired into or being thrown into a police suv. the police also took that out. that fire we saw was just a few minutes ago. these are live pictures of kptv in oregon, the official protest cancelled, we have seen now just dozens and dozens of these people, basically just moving freely through the streets, kicking in windows at several stores, sara sidner has been in seattle, and she joins us now at the protest that is going on in portland. sarah, this protest in portland, the official protest was cancelled, but there's clearly a number of people that the police are describing as...

Conservative commentator was set to speak. it was shut down by the black block protestors who come from off campus. they're not for the majority students. police say it's a very difficult balancing act between free speech and providing security. listen here. >> there will always be somebody who thinks you should have used more force and those who thought you used too much. when we've been in a position where we could take strategic surgical arrest of people in breaking the law, we did that. >> two things appear certain, bill. it will be a tense situation on campus if ann coulter does indeed sh...

This is serious business. they convene a grand jury, the folks, not a judge, which can just toss it on some technicality. they come back and they say, we are going to hold these people accountable. federal courts, as you said, maybe a 10-year -- if it is aa first offense, they won't get ten, but the message that i'm seeing is that we won't tolerate the anarchy in the district of columbia. >> you've got the new form of protesting, the black block protesting, it started in berlin in the '80s, they all dressed in black and they cover their faces. that is some of the violence we have seen. i think...

Groups in this event, and they made it very clear that they were not part of that and they were actually trying to get these anarchist groups to start. they were not listening to them, and so a good number of those folks left the march, and it presented a lot of challenges for us tonight. >> sergeant simpson, this is alison cox as well. are you finding the anti-trump protests happening in your city not only include people against the outcome or unhappy with the outcome of the election but people who are just gloming on and just causing destruction for the sake of it? >> caller: yeah, we have -...