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Article: Police use pepper spray on protesters at demonstration against Bush in Portland, Oregon
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- AP Worldstream
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- August 23, 2002
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Dateline: PORTLAND, Oregon
Riot police used pepper spray and struck some demonstrators with batons
after ordering hundreds of people to leave a protest near a hotel
where President George W. Bush attended a fund-raiser.
Protesters hammered on the hoods of police cars as pepper spray wafted
through the air. Protesting Bush's foreign policy, they chanted "Drop
Bush, Not Bombs."
Bush supporters in formal attire were jostled and taunted by protesters
as they arrived for a fund-raiser for the re-election campaign of
U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith. After elbowing through the demonstrators,
they were checked by Secret Service agents before they were allowed
inside the ...