Rose City Remonstration
Rose City Remonstration
A unique mix of protesters gather around the flames where the Elk Bronze statue once stood between Chapman and Lownsdale Square on July 12, 2020, in downtown Portland, Ore.
Two protestors are detained by police during a protest outside the Portland Police Association (PPA) building July 13, 2020, at 868 N Lombard Street in Portland, Ore.
A protester takes a break in Lownsdale Square on July 17, 2020 in Portland, Ore. The square sits across the street from the Multnomah County Justice Center, the focal point of remonstration in the Rose City during the summer of 2020.
Protesters outside of the Multnomah County Justice Center carry an evangelical individual out of the area after he repeated screamed at those attending the protest to come to Jesus Christ and confess their sins July 17, 2020, in Portland, Ore.
A protester sits with a collection of used crowd control mutations outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 18, 2020, in Portland, Ore.
Artillery shell fireworks explode in a shower of sparks around unwavering police officers standing guard outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 24, 2020, in Portland, Ore.
A protester in a speedo stands in the street during a lull in the night’s intensity outside the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 18, 2020, in Portland, Ore.
Sparks from a tear gas grenade rain down on shielded protestors as they advance slowly in unison toward the Multnomah County Justice Center on July 25, 205 in Portland, Ore. Law enforcement officers completely cleared the area around the Multnomah County Justice Center shortly after this photo was taken with tear gas, rubber bullets, mace and batons.
A Portland police officer watches at small crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Chevron Gas Station at 400 W Burnside St on August 29, 2020, in downtown Portland, Ore.
Jonathan Langevin brandishes a rubber bullet wound that he received from Portland police 11 days ago during a protest in on June 13, 2020, Portland, Ore.
Approximately 500 hundred Black Lives Matter protestors gather June 6, 2022, at Irving Park in Portland, Ore.
Portland police sit down to rest after a long day and night of protests Aug. 29, 2020, near the Multnomah County Justice Center in Portland, Ore.
2020 is a year the city of Portland, Oregon will never forget. The Rose City experienced over 100 nights of consecutive protests that summer following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2022, by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin during Floyd’s arrest for using a counterfeit $20 bill.
The majority of these photos were taken in downtown Portland outside of the Multnomah County Justice Center – a grand, high-rise structure which houses the Portland Police Bureau's (PPB) Central Precinct, one of two Multnomah County Detention Centers, the PPB's headquarters and the adjacent U.S. District Courthouse.
For months hundreds, sometimes thousands, of protestors gathered night after night at the Justice Center in remonstration of police violence and brutality in the Rose City and across the country. Some nights large fires burned in the fountains and streets lining the public squares which sit opposite the Justice Center and no police intervened or pressed their calm to restore order. On other nights a seemingly permanent cloud of tear gas would engulf the Justice Center and the surrounding area as local police and federal agents deployed a plethora of crowd control munitions to clear protesters from the area.
These photos received 4th placed for the 2020-2021 Photojournalism II – Picture Series/Story category in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.