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Portland struggles with liberal identity under nation's gaze

by Associated Press
| July 27, 2020 12:03 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Images broadcast worldwide of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler getting tear-gassed alongside protesters made him an overnight standard-bearer for the growing movement against President Donald Trump's use of federal agents to tamp down violence in U.S. cities.

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