Demonstrators held up banners reading "We Cannot Be Judged"

Demonstrations and sabotage in Portland and Seattle protesting Biden's inauguration

Side of the Portland rally.

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The day before yesterday, shops and buildings were vandalized in Portland and Seattle in the northwest of the United States, on the sidelines of demonstrations organized by extremist left-wing groups to condemn the police violence and the election of President Joe Biden.

Last year, large demonstrations took place in the two cities over a period of weeks, following the death of George Floyd, a black man in his forties, who died of suffocation under the knee of a white policeman.

In Portland, Oregon, on Monday, federal police used tear gas canisters and non-lethal ammunition to disperse protesters, many of whom were wearing all-black clothing with helmets, protective vests and gas masks.

City police said at least eight of them had been arrested.

About 200 protesters initially gathered in the evening in central Portland to mark Biden's swearing-in, believing that his work would not be better than his predecessor, Donald Trump.

According to local media, many claimed to be part of the anarchist movement, holding up banners reading "We Cannot Be Judged" and "We do not want Biden, we want revenge for police killings, imperial wars and fascist massacres."

In the aftermath, demonstrators, sheltering in black umbrellas, vandalized Democratic Party buildings in Oregon, smashed windows and painted slogans and chaotic symbols with spray paint.

And in Seattle, Washington state, a small group of protesters, also fully equipped in black, ended their demonstrations by committing acts of vandalism that affected a Starbucks coffee shop and smashing the windows of a federal court specializing in immigration procedures.

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