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Members of Antifa clashed with members of the conservative group Patriot Prayer Saturday evening in Portland, Ore., forcing police to declare that a riot was taking place as officers fired paintballs filled with tear gas into the crowd, according to the Oregonian.

Scuffles broke out shortly after 6 pm local time as Antifa protesters pelted marchers from the conservative  group with eggs, water bottles and firecrackers as the marchers spilled out into downtown Portland for their legally permitted march in support of a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. The march followed an afternoon rally at Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza, Reuters reported.

Officers seized weapons like utility knives, clubs and chemical sprays from Antifa protesters as they gathered nearby for their counter-rally.

Portland police eventually made four arrests during the demonstrations - though they said none of them were related to the day's events. Four others had to be taken to the hospital after being struck by projectiles.

The hostilities started escalating around 4 pm local time, as busloads of Patriot Prayer protesters arrived at Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza, while members of Antifa gathered for a counter-demonstration at Chapman Square, directly across the street.

Federal police are searching someone who just tried to come into the rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza. Not sure why, although they removed his backpack before leading him to this SUV. pic.twitter.com/zPb35XXnBH

— eder campuzano 🇲🇽🇺🇸🎮🎶📽 (@edercampuzano) June 30, 2018

Federal Dept. of Homeland Security police are making the new arrivals return anything that can be used as a weapon, plus any pepper spray they may be carrying. pic.twitter.com/bODdHU8L7b

— eder campuzano 🇲🇽🇺🇸🎮🎶📽 (@edercampuzano) June 30, 2018

There were roughly 150 Patriot Prayer protesters while the Antifa protesters numbered at least twice that. Still, the dueling protests were a fraction of an earlier march in support of immigrant families separated at the border, part of a wave of marches that unfolded in cities across the US. Nearly 5,000 people attended that event.

Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson, the organizer of the rally, said during a  rally that he wanted to "bring light into a city that's full of darkness". He bashed Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. Gibson is one of 13 candidates running for the GOP nomination to face off against Democratic Washington Senator Maria Cantwell.

(BREITBART) — Actress Susan Sarandon was arrested in Washington D.C. on Thursday during a mass protest against the Trump administration’s illegal immigration and border enforcement.

Local police confirmed that 575 people were charged with unlawfully demonstrating outside the U.S. Senate building, with Sarandon later revealing that she was among them.

“Powerful, beautiful action with hundreds of women saying we demand the reunification of families separated by immoral ICE policy,” Sarandon wrote on Twitter. “This is what Democracy looks like. #WomenDisobey.”

(BREITBART) — CNN anti-Trump activist Jim Acosta was caught on video Friday not only engaging in shameless grandstanding, but in the actual act of manufacturing fake news.

In the video embedded below, Acosta is present at a White House event where President Trump delivered remarks about the five journalists murdered in Maryland on Thursday. As you will see, though, Acosta is clearly too far away to be seen or heard by the president.

Nevertheless, although there is no way he will be heard, Acosta drops all pretense of professionalism to still holler a question to the president: “Will you stop calling the press the enemy of the people, sir?”

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(Washington Times) Federal Hatch Act investigators have opened a complaint file on the Justice Department employee who was part of a mob that chased Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from a restaurant earlier last month.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which polices employees who illegally engage in politicking as government employees, has assigned a case number and a lawyer to the complaint against Allison Hrabar.

Mr. Hrabar, a paralegal at the Justice Department, was part of a group from the Democratic Socialists of America that showed up at a Mexican restaurant to disrupt Ms. Nielsen’s meal. Their protest was filmed and posted online.

Ms. Hrabar told The Washington Examiner that her protest was done on her own time and didn’t reflect on her government work.

Criminal District Judge Byron C. Williams has voluntarily stepped down from the bench for a leave of absence amid an investigation into allegations he inappropriately touched a courthouse employee and made inappropriate comments from the bench, according to a report by our partners NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. 

The New Orleans Police Department is searching for a teen reported missing in Little Woods.