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Donald J. Trump was sworn in Friday morning as the 45th president of the United States, and thousands of Portlanders are gathering in Pioneer Courthouse Square as afternoon and evening protests begin.

The Inauguration Day demonstrations follow days of protests that erupted in Portland just hours after Trump's election.

A Nov. 10 demonstration, declared a riot by police, drew international attention for its violence and vandalism to businesses. In a subsequent demonstration, a protester was shot in an apparent argument over blocked traffic. On several nights, police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to clear out protesters.

Officers arrested 120 people overall, but prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against most of them.

The demonstrations Friday are causing significant disruption downtown. TriMet service has been affected, with all MAX service through downtown stopped. Some schools closed early, as did some businesses.

Police Chief Mike Marshman and Mayor Ted Wheeler said the city won't tolerate violence and vandalism. Officers are not allowing marchers to gain access to freeways, bridges or the east side.

Protests held Friday:

Don't Shoot Portland:

Student walkout

Inauguration Day flag burning

"Join the Resistance! An Inauguration night of music and organizing to fight the Trump Agenda"

The Oregonian/OregonLive is dispatching teams of journalists to cover Friday's protests. Follow us on Twitter for updates, check out our Facebook page for live videos and refer to OregonLive.com for everything you need to know as the day unfolds.

Playlist of videos shot Friday by Oregonian staffers:

The Oregonian's Facebook Live feed:

We're at Pioneer Courthouse Square for the Rise Up and Resist #PortlandProtest against the inauguration of Donald Trump. (CONTENT WARNING: NSFW language.) Posted by The Oregonian on Friday, January 20, 2017

Here is a timeline of the downtown protest:

11:19 p.m.: Direct Action Alliance, the group that organized Friday's protest, puts out a statement criticizing the police response, claiming officers "attacked peaceful protesters with chemical weapons and flash-bang grenades."

According to the group's statement:

When the police opened fire on the crowd; there were no broken windows, there were no smashed cars, there were only peaceful and unarmed citizens. Were people riled up? Yes, understandably so, the police were threatening to attack us. For what? What did we break? What did we destroy?

Our crime? We didn't obey, we didn't listen.

They attacked us because we did not obey them when they told us where to stand, where to sit, and how to protest.

Tonight, they showed us who the aggressors are.

Asked earlier Friday night about accusations the police overreacted, Simpson told The Oregonian/OregonLive: "I have no information to support that allegation. Once things are over, any use of force would be reported and documented."

11 p.m.: Portland police say six people were arrested Friday during demonstrations in downtown Portland after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. One man was arrested for charges related to November's protests, and five were related to Friday's protests:

Nicholas Martin Johnson, 21, arrested on the Burnside Bridge on a second-degree disorderly conduct charge.

Rosemary Vera Tustin, 30, arrested at West Burnside Street and Southwest 2nd Avenue on a second-degree disorderly conduct charge.

Craig Allen Hasty, 45, arrested at Burnside and 2nd on a second-degree disorderly conduct charge.

Travis Allen Martin, 18, arrested at Southwest 5th Avenue and Yamhill Street on harassment and second-degree disorderly conduct charges.

Matthew Ray McGaugh, 41, arrested at 5th and Yamhill on a second-degree disorderly conduct charge.

9:46 p.m.: TriMet announces MAX is resuming regular service through downtown but with significant delays through 11:30 p.m. Buses resuming regular service through downtown.

9:31 p.m.: Police tweet that the crowds have largely dispersed and left the area. Officers will continue to monitor to prevent any additional disorder.

9:18 p.m.: Small group of protesters are in Pioneer Square, but it looks like most have dispersed. The Oregonian/OregonLive will monitor and report if anything further develops.

9:07 p.m.: Police say streets in the Entertainment District are closed tonight from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Cars inside the closure will be towed. It is the area between 2nd and 4th, and Burnside and Everett Street.

8:48 p.m.: Reporters say the crowd is thinning significantly. A significant number of officers and squad cars near 5th and Morrison are moving scattered bands of protesters along 5th.

Officers wearing gas masks as more flash bang grenades heard #j20pdx #portlandprotest pic.twitter.com/RZN6C1Mixx — Maxine Bernstein (@maxoregonian) January 21, 2017

8:42 p.m.:

8:34 p.m.: Officers use flash-bang grenades and tear gas to move remaining crowd from 6th and Yamhill. Reporters say someone threw a firecracker at officers.

8:32 p.m.: Reporters at the scene say the crowd is moving, and many people appear to be leaving.

Due to rocks, bottles, flares, unknown liquid being thrown at ofcs, this is no longer a peaceful protest. Crowd told repeatedly to disperse. — Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) January 21, 2017

8:24 p.m.: Portland police on Twitter estimate the current crowd size at 1,500 to 2,000, most of which remain at Broadway and Morrison. Officers continue to broadcast orders to the crowd to disperse to the south.

8:19 p.m.: Police assemble in front of the Banana Republic store. Remaining protesters descend into profanity at the officers.

8:17 p.m.: Police continue to tell protesters to leave the Broadway/Yamhill area, saying the gathering is an unlawful assembly. The square is clear, and reporters on the scene say many people seem to be leaving the area. Tensions at 6th and Morrison have eased.

8:02 p.m.: Police tell the crowd in the Pioneer square area to move south and disperse from the area or face riot-control measures.

7:57 p.m.: Officers at 6th and Morrison are donning gas masks. TriMet says it is suspending most bus service in downtown.

7:55 p.m.: Protest organizer Gregory McKelvey indicated via Twitter that he agreed to keep demonstrators off bridges and out of the way of public transit, but police used pepper spray anyway. Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson told The Oregonian/OregonLive: "I have no information to support that allegation. Once things are over, any use of force would be reported and documented."

I gave the city so much. No freeways. No blocking of transit. The response?



Children beat in the streets & peaceful protestors gassed. — Gregory McKelvey (@GregoryMcKelvey) January 21, 2017

7:50 p.m.: Police tweet that officers will use crowd control agents on protesters in front of the Nines. They also tweet that protesters are armed with clubs and sticks, and are throwing unknown liquid at officers.

Billy Ellison

7:47 p.m.: Portland police said they arrested an 18-year-old man during an Inauguration Day protest rally in connection with November's post-election riot.

Billy Ellison was arrested at Pioneer Courthouse Square and booked on two counts of interfering with public transit. He was set to be arraigned Monday.

Police said they learned Ellison's identity after receiving a tip in response to photos released after the November protest that turned into what police declared a riot. Ellison was carrying a torch, a large knife and a gas mask when he was arrested Friday, police said.

7:38 p.m.: Portland's Resistance organizer Gregory McKelvey announces the conclusion of the protest organized by the group. Many demonstrators remain at the square.

7:32 p.m.: MAX lines resume service through downtown, but TriMet cautions riders to expect significant delays.

Right now, the crowd appears to stretch along Broadway from Morrison to near Taylor. Rain coming down now #j20pdx pic.twitter.com/plTJ9Gq6SX — Everton Bailey Jr. (@EvertonBailey) January 21, 2017

7:24 p.m.: Some protesters get on the move again, heading east on Morrison. Meanwhile, officers try to move another group back toward the square from Broadway and Taylor.

7:13 p.m.: Police close a three-block area surrounding Taylor and Broadway, telling protesters they must leave. Many protesters sit in the street, however, and don't moved. Meanwhile, plenty of protesters regather peacefully at Pioneer Courthouse Square, though the number is far fewer than earlier Friday afternoon when the protest began.

7:12 p.m.: Protesters march at Broadway in the area of Yamhill and Taylor, and some have arrived back at Pioneer square.

Road flares and bottles being thrown at officers. #J20PDX — Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) January 21, 2017

7:05 p.m.: The crowd has split into numerous smaller clusters, one of which has stopped transit on 6th.

There are 3 ppl with American flags and a Trump campaign banner near 1st/Taylor. A group of protestors have swarmed them. #j20pdx — Everton Bailey Jr. (@EvertonBailey) January 21, 2017

6:58 p.m.: Officers at Taylor and Broadway threaten the crowd with arrest and riot control agents, and tell them to go back to Pioneer square.

6:56 p.m.: The crowd leaves the Naito and Taylor intersection.

6:52 p.m.: Three dozen officers are trying to move a large section of the crowd onto Taylor westbound, but little movement. Police are also trying to reopen the Burnside Bridge, which could happen after they finalize arrests.

Line of police blocking protesters at SW Naito Pkwy/Taylor ; protesters chant'Whose streets? Our streets!' #j20pdx #pdxtraffic pic.twitter.com/bS7im6k3qS — Maxine Bernstein (@maxoregonian) January 21, 2017

Police encourage peaceful protesters to leave, due to projectiles being thrown at ofcs and crowd trying to cross bridges illegally. #J20PDX — Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) January 21, 2017

6:38 p.m.: All MAX service through downtown stops.

6:34 p.m.: The MAX Green Line is the latest casualty, after earlier shutdowns of the Blue and Red lines.

6:34 p.m.: Police close Waterfront Park and advise marchers to leave or face arrest.

6:31 p.m.: Trimet says the protests have disrupted the Red and Blue MAX lines, which are not operating through downtown.

6:28 p.m.: Police tell a few dozen protesters at the Burnside Bridge that they are engaging in an "unlawful assembly."

The protest appears to stretch from NW 2/Couch to SW Oak/Naito Pkwy #j20pdx pic.twitter.com/UmFjzWuoNR — Everton Bailey Jr. (@EvertonBailey) January 21, 2017

6:19 p.m.: Steel and Burnside bridges are closed to vehicles; Broadway, Hawthorne and Morrison remain open. A crowd is sitting blocking the Burnside.

6:13 p.m.: Sgt. Pete Simpson said police made one arrest tonight, connected to the November protests.

"He was returning to be there tonight,'' Simpson said, saying the police would provide more information later.

Lines 12, 19, 20: detoured via the Steel bridge. No service to NE Couch at M L King or stops on the Burnside Bridge. — TriMet (@trimet) January 21, 2017

6:05 p.m.: Police deploy pepper spray and flash-bang grenades on the crowd at the Burnside Bridge. Protesters move away from the Steel Bridge and head toward 2nd.

6:02 p.m.: Portland police block access to the Steel Bridge from the crowd, which responds by throwing ice balls and eggs at officers.

5:58 p.m.: The crowd moves north on Northwest 4th Avenue at Davis Street, eventually turning and heading toward the steel bridge. TriMet is directing buses away from the Burnside Bridge, which officers are blocking from the crowd, directing it west.

5:52 p.m.: Protesters are in Old Town/Chinatown near Northwest 3rd and Couch Street. Police direct the crowd west toward the Park Blocks.

5:42 p.m.: The crowd heads north on 2nd and turns west on Southwest Stark Street.

PPB command post is well organized and prepared for tonight's protest. pic.twitter.com/uX12BZuQPK — Mike Reese (@SheriffReese) January 21, 2017

5:37 p.m.: Police say over a loudspeaker that the crowd will not be allowed access to the Morrison Bridge. They direct the crowd, the main cluster of which stretches from Naito Parkway to at least 4th, to continue north on Southwest 2nd Avenue.

Buses and MAX trains are stuck in #j20pdx protests. TriMet has said it will maintain service unless it becomes unsafe. #pdxtraffic https://t.co/Z1BbViwqiN — PDX Traffic Alerts (@TrafficPortland) January 21, 2017

5:30 p.m.: The crowd travels north on 4th Avenue. It clears 5th, where traffic is flowing again.

A bus is stuck in the crowd of protesters on Southwest 6th Avenue.

5:26 p.m.: Police tweet that City Hall was vandalized, but they don't say how.

5:24 p.m.: The stop at City Hall was apparently temporary for the group, as the protesters leave and resume the march north on 4th.

5:22 p.m.: The crowd amasses on the Southwest 4th Avenue side of City Hall. Buses and MAX trains in the area have been stopped by the crowd.

The march is affecting #pdxtraffic on SW 6th Ave. MAX trains and buses are stopped. #J20PDX — The Oregonian (@Oregonian) January 21, 2017

5:11 p.m.: Mat dos Santos, legal director of the ACLU of Oregon, spoke to the crowd at the square.

"Peaceful protest and assembly is at the heart of a democracy,'' he said. "Protest is a means of expression for those of you who don't have access to the governor's office or the mayor's office.''

The ACLU of Oregon encouraged those in the crowd to look for the ACLU's trained legal observers wearing blue vests, who will be attending the marches Friday and Saturday in Portland. About 25 people received an evening of training from the National Lawyers Guild and are intended to be "neutral observers'' of interactions between the police and demonstrators, and encouraged to take notes and document what they see, said Sarah Armstrong, an ACLU spokeswoman. Most of the 25 trained are young lawyers, Armstrong said.

The ACLU also has encouraged people participating in the protests to upload videos of encounters with police using the agency Mobile Justice app. The app was created as a way to hold law enforcement accountable for their actions, and allows users to quickly upload their videos to the ACLU.

"Government officials should not retreat from protest. They should embrace protest. It is their duty to listen to protest, to listen to your voices,'' dos Santos told the crowd.

5:05 p.m.: The crowd leaves the square and is moving south from Southwest 6th Avenue and Taylor Street.

5:03 p.m.: The crowd prepares to leave the square and march into the streets of Portland.

4:53 p.m.: Connor Flynn, a former Portland resident who now lives in Kalama, Washington, said he chose to attend the protest, in part, to gain an understanding of others' concerns about Trump's presidency. Flynn, 29, said he wants to "gauge people, look in their eyes, get an impression of people and how they're feeling about all this. And how to act myself and conduct myself as I go forward. ... I want to know, like, where are we at here, and how can we always continue to find common ground and get together and be progressive as Americans and humans?

"I'm interested to see where he can really step up and do some good things and take the torch, and the Republicans have as much right to get their little slight way of doing things. We'll see how this goes."

4:20 p.m.: Ricard Patton and his husband, Andy Johnson, flew in to Portland from Missoula, Montana, to take part. They were concerned gay couples would lose rights attained under marriage equality.

"We rushed our wedding to make sure we got married before Inauguration Day," Patton said.

That tiny speck above Starbucks? Drone over the protest in Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in downtown Portland.

He was realistic, though, about the impact of protests. "It's not going to prevent an inauguration, it's not going to prevent him from being president, but just to show him that enough people in the U.S. hate him."

4:17 p.m.: John Dawson, a 30-year-old small farmer from Damascus, said Trump's presidency will affect him because he's a self-described "queer small farmer who's poor and who gets my health insurance through the ACA. ... I'm afraid of all of those things being in jeopardy."

He said it took Trump a long time to appoint a secretary of agriculture and that he thinks the person Trump picked for the position, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue, isn't too familiar with concepts like farming subsidies. "I'm imagining that farming subsidies could start going to subsidizing oil, that sort of thing. I don't particularly know, but ... if he has to raise taxes somewhere to account for his tax cuts for people who make more than I do, (I'm) just afraid."

Also: "I thought it would be better to come out and march than just sit at home and be crying about it."

More than a dozen Portland Police Bureau officers chill in front of the Nordstrom store, ready to respond if needed for protests happening Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in downtown Portland.

4:07 p.m.: Gabriela Oh, a 30-year-old Corvallis resident, came to Portland for the protest. She said she was "tremendously disturbed" by the election outcome, specifically Trump's plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"I have healthcare because of the ACA, and I am tremendously concerned that the Republican administration is not going to replace it with something that will actually make it affordable for me to have health care," she said at Pioneer Courthouse Square. "Plus, I am a woman, and it is not safe to have Republicans in power if you are a woman because they want to just take all of our rights away. They don't want us to govern our own bodies."

She held a homemade sign depicting Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a "coital embrace" overseen by Rex Tillerson. A globe burns in the sign.

Also, she said, "I went to a post-election protest (in Corvallis) and it was very tiny, so I wanted to be with more people," she said.

4:03 p.m.: Ian Johnson, organizer with the Oregon Working Families Party, told The Oregonian/OregonLive he was at the protest because Trump "is diametrically opposed to all of our values from economic equality, gender equality, racial justice. and there is no way we can't stand up and be counted here."

He wants to send a "clear and loud message" that he and his group are disappointed in the election outcome.

As for what he hoped to accomplish by protesting: "The establishment needs to know it is being watched, that there are people who care, and there are people who will make sure that these injustices are noted and that they're addressed."

3:40 p.m.: A speaker asks the crowd, "How many of you are ready to get arrested? How many of you are ready for civil disobedience?" Lots of cheers go up.

A crowd of protesters on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, has filled a significant portion of Pioneer Courthouse Square, which holds about 12,000.

3:30 p.m.: The arrival of the marchers from PSU adds to the crowd gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square, which has a capacity of about 12,000 and is not quite full.

Officers seized wooden poles & other materials in Pioneer Square to prevent use as weapons. Some protesters w/make-shift weapons. #J20PDX — Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) January 20, 2017

3:05 p.m.: The PSU protesters end their campus protest and begin marching to Pioneer square.

Some people burn flags Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland to protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

2:50 p.m. Some are burning flags doused in lighter fluid. Chants of "No Trump, no KKK, no fascists USA" rise up. A crowd gathers around a handful of people burning flags.

2:40 p.m.: A group of anarchists join the growing crowd at Pioneer square. A handful of Trump supporters carrying religious signs draw angry shouts from the crowd.

2:35 p.m.: Karen Cole, 25, a state worker, said today's #portlandprotest is a stand against corporate control of the country.

2:23 p.m.: A crowd begins to gather for a flag burning protest in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Follow @noellecrombie on Twitter.

2:15 p.m.: The student walkout at Portland State University begins. Close to 100 people gather outside the PSU student union building. At least half a dozen Portland police officers are nearby. Follow @EvertonBailey on Twitter.

1:10 p.m.: About 25 protesters gather at 162nd Avenue and East Burnside in Gresham. They are chanting at passing cars, "No KKK, no fascist USA, no Trump." One of the protesters, Jill Pham, 23, of Southeast Portland, says the inauguration was "painful to watch." After about 45 minutes, the protesters board the MAX for downtown Portland to join demonstrations there.

Coverage of the inauguration in Washington, D.C.:

Reporter Doug Perry offers live, ongoing reports and analysis of the pomp and protests in Washington, D.C.:

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