For the third consecutive night, Portland activists gathered Tuesday to protest racist policing in the aftermath of an officer in Minnesota fatally shooting a Black man named Daunte Wright. For the second night in a row, Portland police declared a riot after protesters damaged a building.

But this time, protesters provided the nation with a dramatic visual: the torching of a police union hall.

At around 9:30 pm, about 100 black-clad activists marched from Kenton Park to the Portland Police Association headquarters. Since last summer, the union’s building has been a regular target of police abolitionists, who seek to damage it in what they call “direct actions.”

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