Portland Has Been Rioting Since May. Is There an End in Sight?

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 7 a.m.

b'Portland, Oregon, is three months into rioting after the May 25 death of George Floyd with no end in sight. \\nWhat do you think is the driving force behind the continued violence? The far-left anarchist group Antifa has been behind a lot of the violence in Portland. How is the situation developing? \\nLora Reis, a senior research fellow for homeland security at The Heritage Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss it. \\n\\ufeff\\nWe also cover these stories: \\n\\nTwo people are dead and a third was badly wounded after a third night of violence Tuesday and into Wednesday morning in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man.\\n\\nJulia Jackson\\u2014the mother of Blake, the 29-year-old man shot multiple times by police Sunday in Kenosha\\u2014had harsh words for rioters in an interview with CNN\\u2019s Don Lemon, and she also apologized to President Donald Trump for missing his call.\\xa0\\n\\nWisconsin Gov. Tony Evers turned down federal assistance to\\xa0curb the violence in Kenosha.\\xa0\\n\\n\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.'