In the wee hours of Saturday morning, vandals and arsonists targeted an administrative building for Portland Public Schools (PPS), setting vehicles on fire, smashing windows, and spray-painting the walls. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) is investigating the attack. The Oregonian published photos of the vandalism and The Post Millennial Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo identified an antifa symbol.
Firefighters responded to a fire alarm at the PPS administration building at 3:15 a.m. Saturday, the police department reported. When they arrived, a large box truck and two cargo vans had gone up in flames. The firefighters put out the blaze without sustaining any injuries.
Police reported that investigators determined the fire to be “suspicious in nature.”
“Preliminary information is that the suspect or suspects gained entry to a fenced area on the property, started the fires, and vandalized the building,” the bureau reported. An investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made.
Vandals appear to have spray-painted “No Justice, No Peace” on a wall using a stencil, as The Oregonian‘s photos revealed. They also spray-painted, “Learning [heart] not school.” The “a” in “Learning” displayed an A with a circle around it — an anarchist symbol often used by antifa agitators.
“The Portland Public Schools headquarters was severely damaged in an arson attack. One of the graffiti messages repeats a BLM-Antifa mantra. An anarchist symbol was also sprayed on the building,” Ngo tweeted with a picture of the dilapidated box truck.