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          Tens of thousands of people gathered in Portland on Saturday as part of the "No Kings" demonstrations that were being held across the country to protest President Donald Trump’s aggressive exercise of executive power.
Demonstrations were held in more than 50 cities across Oregon. The one starting at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park was the largest, and Portland officers who were monitoring said it attracted at least 40,000 people.
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It began with speeches and continued with a march of about 2 miles through downtown and across the Hawthorne and Morrison bridges.
Thousands of people, including people playing drums and other percussion instruments, started at the Oregon Convention Center and marched across the lower deck of the Steel Bridge before noon to the waterfront rally, while another group marched across the Hawthorne Bridge and a third came from Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Portland police warned at about 11:20 a.m. that traffic would impacted in all these areas “for a bit.”
At about 12:20 p.m., police announced they were closing the Morrison Bridge. At about 1 p.m., they closed the Hawthorne Bridge.
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