Antifa threatened to burn down Portland apartment building, set fire to police office

Far-left activists from Antifa flooded a Portland neighborhood on Saturday, threatening residents of a building with promises to burn it down.

The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo, who testified before Congress about the far-left group, posted a clip of the riot with quotes of what Antifa militants were saying.

“We’re gonna burn your building down.”

“We know where you live.”

“As Antifa have taken to Portland residential areas to riot, they’ve also assaulted & intimidated residents there,” Ngo wrote. “Tonight, they threatened those who looked out the window.”

The incident follows the federal government’s pull out of Portland, which has prompted far-left activists to move on to other parts of the city beyond the federal courthouse, where congregated every night for the past two months.

During Saturday’s protest, Antifa also attempted to set fire to a police building.

In a statement, the Portland Police Department wrote that protesters arrived with support vehicles that allowed them to illegally block other vehicle traffic before heading to the Portland Police Association Office on North Lombard Street.

“People within the crowd committed crimes when they erected a fence, pushed dumpsters into the street to block traffic, set a dumpster on fire, vandalized the PPA office with spray paint, and destroyed security cameras,” the police said.

Police added that people within the crowd broke the window to the PPA building, entered it and committed crimes of criminal mischief, burglary, and attempted arson.

Police were forced to declare a riot in order to disperse them, but were met with a hostile crowd who threw paint balloons and glass bottles at police officers.

“The hostile crowd also tried to injure officers by shining green lasers into their eyes, which is a crime in Oregon. Three officers suffered injuries. Two were transported to an area hospital by police vehicle and later released,” stated police.