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Prosecutor won't act on low-level Portland protest arrests

by Associated Press
| August 12, 2020 12:03 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The newly elected district attorney in Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday that under a new policy, his office will not prosecute people who have been arrested since late May on non-violent misdemeanor charges during protests in Oregon's largest city.

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