People attend a protest against racial inequality and police violence in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday.

Some in the crowd worked to avoid trouble by stopping demonstrators from lighting fires and shooting fireworks at the courthouse as they had done on previous nights.

Wheeler, said that the city’s police, state troopers and county sheriff’s office had agreed not to use teargas except where there was a threat to life or of serious injury.“The federal officers are using CS gas broadly, indiscriminately and nightly,” he said.

Wheeler apologised for the Portland police using teargas in late May and June to break up Black Lives Matter protests.

Earlier in the day, Portland police cleared the two parks in front of the courthouse and county jail that served as a staging ground for the protests.

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