Another night of rioting and lawlessness exploded in more than half a dozen U.S. cities Saturday night — with the mayhem including damage to federal buildings, local police precincts, and a fatal shooting in Austin, Texas.

Similar protests and violent demonstrations have been seen across the country following the death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota who died while in police custody. A video of the May 25, 2020, encounter with police officers showed a White officer putting his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than 8 minutes. Floyd died later that day.

Floyd’s death — as well as the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, and other Black men and women — sparked widespread protests and demonstrations in the U.S. and across the world, which still continue in some cities to this day.

Here’s a recap of some of the developments in a sampling of cities.

Portland, Ore.: Courthouse fence breached

A huge crowd that included the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Vets turned out for yet another day and night of rioting and lawlessness in Portland, Ore., a city that has seen more than 50 consecutive days of such behavior since Floyd’s death.

Early Sunday local time, rioters broke through a reinforced fence that surrounded the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the downtown area, OregonLive.com reported.

Federal agents assigned to guard the building deployed tear gas and the Portland police declared the scene a riot around 1:15 a.m. local time, the report said.

Saturday night’s demonstration followed what the news outlet said was a familiar pattern: Hours of peaceful protests that eventually devolve into destruction and attacks against police.

Social media posts also showed a crowd outside a Marriott hotel that was said to be where federal officers deployed to the city were staying.

Seattle: Explosive blows hole in precinct wall

At one point during Saturday’s daylong protests in Seattle, rioters threw an explosive device that created an eight-inch hole in a wall of the police department’s East District, police Chief Carmen Best said, according to the Seattle Times.

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“What we saw today was not peaceful,” Best said. “The rioters had no regard for the public’s safety, for officers’ safety or for the businesses and property that they destroyed.”

“What we saw today was not peaceful. The rioters had no regard for the public’s safety, for officers’ safety or for the businesses and property that they destroyed.”

— Chief Carmen Best, Seattle police

Police reported making 45 arrests near the East Precinct as of 10 p.m. local time. They said 21 officers were hit by bricks, rocks and explosives. Most of the injured officers were able to return to work, police said in a Twitter message.

Conditions in the area had been declared a riot at 4:30 p.m. after police officers were being assaulted and protesters failed to disperse, Q13 FOX of Seattle reported.

Police reported numerous fires and explosions.

Best said police planned to use less-lethal crowd management tools, but not tear gas, despite a federal judge’s decision late Friday blocking a city council ban on the equipment that was scheduled to take effect Sunday, the Seattle Times reported.

A Starbucks store was destroyed and other businesses were covered with graffiti, the outlet reported.

Austin, Texas: Fatal shooting

A fatal shooting occurred around 9:50 p.m. during a protest in the city, according to reports.

Police said a man carrying a weapon approached a vehicle – but a person inside the vehicle fatally shot the man, the Austin American Statesman reported.

Medics arriving at the scene assisted the victim but were unsuccessful, the newspaper reported.

Police were in contact with the shooter, who was cooperating with authorities, the report said.

One witness said the victim was well known to many protesters, and a group of people was seen grieving at the scene, the newspaper reported.

Aurora, Colo.: Vehicle drives through crowd; courthouse fire

A frightening moment happened along Interstate 225 when a vehicle drove through a crowd of marchers in Aurora, Colo., The Guardian reported. At least one person was struck by the vehicle and was taken to a hospital.

Elsewhere in the city, demonstrators pushed down a fence, threw objects at police officers, broke windows and started a fire inside the city’s courthouse on Saturday night, Denver’s KCNC-TV reported.

The unrest was associated with the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after an altercation with police nearly a year ago, the station reported.

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Saturday’s fire was quickly extinguished.

Aurora police tweeted photos of smashed windows and damaged fencing at the courthouse.

It was not immediately clear if police made any arrests, according to the news outlet.

Oakland, Calif.: Courthouse fire

Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Oakland, smashing windows of the city’s police headquarters and setting a fire inside the Alameda County courthouse, according to reports.

Oakland police confirmed much of the violence via Twitter messages.

The crowd had broken through barricades set up outside the courthouse, San Francisco’s KPIX-TV reported.

Omaha: ‘Potential of getting violent’ prompts arrests

Between 75 and 80 protesters were taken into custody after police declared an unlawful assembly, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

The crowd started blocking traffic around 9:15 p.m. and police were seeing Facebook posts suggesting that damage was being planned for the downtown area.

“It leaned toward the potential of getting violent,” Omaha Police Capt. Mark Matuza told the newspaper.

The crowd was protesting the May 30 shooting death of James Scurlock, 22, for which Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine declined to file charges, the World-Herald reported – but Kleine agreed two days later to let a grand jury review the case.

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Scurlock was allegedly fatally shot by bar owner Jake Gardner amid a protest in Omaha’s Old Market area, according to the newspaper.

Los Angeles: Damage to courthouse, City Hall clash

Rioting in the nation’s second-largest city on Saturday night included broken windows and graffiti at a federal courthouse in the downtown area and police in riot gear facing off against a crowd near City Hall, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Earlier, demonstrators marched along a stretch of Highway 101.

Sgt. Anthony Costello of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that some arrests were made, including for vandalism, but was uncertain how many rioters had been apprehended.

As Hurricane Hanna approaches the Texas Gulf Coast, the “big story” out of the Category 1 storm will likely be flooding, Fox News Cheif Meteorologist Rick Reichmuth said Saturday.

In an interview on “Cavuto LIVE,” Reichmuth told host David Asman that the center of the storm is probably around 70 miles off the coast and is westward bound.

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As of late Saturday morning, Hurricane Hanna had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (129 kph) and was moving at 7 mph (11 kph).

While hurricanes normally start to pick up around the second week of August through October, Hurricane Hanna — the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season — is already this year’s eighth named storm.

“Eventually, it’s going to make a little bit of a southwest job, it looks like and will come onshore as a hurricane in the next few hours — probably by the early afternoon,” he said.

“And, somewhere around South Padre Island…But, once you go just to the other side of that barrier island, there’s a lot of population that’s going to have some pretty big impacts from this,” he added. “And, mostly that is going to be some really significant rainfall totals.”

The main concern for Reichmuth is the flooding from that rainfall. However, deadly swells and a storm surge of up to five feet were forecast for a stretch of coast south of Corpus Christi. There is also the possibility of a tornado in the same area.

“Some of those totals are probably going to be maybe in some spots toward 15 inches of rain. A lot of areas in the 7-10 inches of rain,” he explained. “And, I’m worried that’s certainly going to cause a lot of flooding. Flooding will probably be the biggest story for us here.”

According to The Associated Press, forecasters also said isolated rainfall totals could reach up to 18 inches (46 centimeters).

That said, Reichmuth noted Hurricane Hanna will likely move “pretty quickly” isolated along the Rio Grande River Valley and “should be done by tomorrow afternoon.”

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“But, a lot of rain to be had from this storm. And again, David, here we are on our eighth storm. We have a lot of hurricane season ahead. This is also, by the way, a COVID hotspot across parts of South Texas,” he concluded. “So, folks have to deal with that in addition to the storm.”

While officials assure they are ready for Hurricane Hanna, this marks the first big test of storm season amidst the pandemic.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The body of Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights leader and Georgia politician, began its six-day journey in a celebration of life Saturday, with its first stops in Troy and Selma Alabama.

Lewis, 80, died on July 17 after a six-month battle with cancer.

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His casket, accompanied by a military honor guard, arrived draped in an American flag at Troy University ahead of “A Service Celebrating ‘The Boy from Troy'” on Saturday.

Troy Mayor Jason Reeves applauded Lewis’ strength at “confronting Alabama state troopers,” during his time as an activist during the Civil Rights movement.

“And now Alabama state troopers will lead his body around this state as we celebrate his life,” Reeves said.

The event, with speeches from five of his 10 siblings– his brothers, Henry “Grant,” Samuel and Freddie Lewis and sisters, Rosa Mae and Ethel Mae Tyner– and a rendition of “Hero,” from Sheila Jackson, paid homage to Lewis’ history in the city that set off his activism alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1958.

It was over 60 years ago that Dr. King met with the then 18-year-old “boy from Troy” who had hopes of attending an all-white university.

The school — Troy University — is the campus to host the first of several proceedings for Lewis beginning Saturday.

“He worked a lifetime to help others and make the world a better place in which to live,” Grant Lewis said in his tribute. He shared a memory of when Lewis was sworn into Congress, saying that during the poignant moment, Lewis looked up at Grant and gave him a thumbs-up during the ceremony.

Afterward, Grant asked him, “What were you thinking?”

“I was thinking this is a long way from the cotton fields of Alabama,” Lewis responded.

His young nephew infused the somber ceremony with laughter after delivering poignant words: “it’s up to keep his legacy alive” before jumping off the stage.

Lewis grew up in Pike County, Ala., and was an aspiring minister.

The son of sharecroppers, he worked alongside his siblings– who knew him as Robert– on his family’s land, tending the fields and animals. The young Lewis would preach to the chickens to practice his craft.

“He came from humble beginnings, always humble and respectful,” his sister Ethel Mae said.

In 2011, the humble congressman was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama for his fight against racial discrimination.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has worsened in Lewis’ home state of Alabama, the family has requested that everyone wear a face mask to prevent mourners and onlookers from spreading the virus.

Seats at the university service were spaced six feet apart to abide by social distancing rules.

“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble”

— Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.

Lewis’s death comes amidst a national reckoning between law enforcement and their communities, as people all over the country protest against racial injustice facing Black and Hispanic people.

As an activist, Lewis himself was arrested and jailed dozens of times and attacked during periods of civil unrest.

At an event in March to commemorate the anniversary of the bloody upheaval between police and protesters in 1965 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where Lewis and other demonstrators were beaten with clubs by state troopers, and his skull was fractured, Lewis famously said: “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.”

The bridge will be another monumental stop Sunday on Lewis’ journey before his body lies in repose at the Alabama Capitol.

He will be flown to Washington, D.C. on Monday and his casket will make several stops throughout the city, including at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial near the National Mall. He will then lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, with a public viewing.

The honor to lay in the nation’s Capitol Rotunda has been given to more than 30 distinguished figures in American history, including and most recently the late Sen. John McCain and late Rep. Elijah Cummings.

Lewis will then be flown to Atlanta, where he will lie in state at the Georgia Capitol Wednesday, before his final internment on Thursday.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Cooperation between federal law enforcement has deteriorated as Portland’s mayor rebuffed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) overtures and the city council made a “deadly” decision to block police assistance, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan told Fox News.

For weeks, Portland has been rocked by violence and attacks on federal property, which Morgan says is enough justification for his agents to enter the city. A resistant Mayor Ted Wheeler, meanwhile, has joined ongoing protests and accused the federal government of violating the Constitution through “un-American” tactics.

When DHS leadership visited Portland, Wheeler tweeted that he wouldn’t meet with them even if they asked.

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“That’s not a leader. That’s a 10-year-old,” Morgan told Fox News during an exclusive interview Thursday.

His comments reflected ongoing tension between liberal jurisdictions like Portland and an administration that paints itself as taking all necessary measures to ensure law and order. On Friday, Wheeler accused DHS of a “federal occupation” that he said “must end.”

But according to Morgan, his agents are the only ones standing in the way of complete destruction of the city’s federal courthouse. “The minute that we remove our presence from that building, this country would watch the courthouse burn to the ground at the hands of these criminals,” he said.

He also speculated that the situation in Portland would end “overnight” if the city allowed its own police officers to do their jobs. The Portland Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

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“That’s not going to happen — and that’s what this is about. It’s not about all of the political talking points. It’s straightforward. It’s about law and order. It’s about criminals that are attacking a federal facility and have attempted night after night to burn it to the ground and they have assaulted federal agents night after night after night,” Morgan said.

However, Portland official have framed the debate in terms of excessive government authority.

Portland’s city council has also joined the mayor in resisting cooperation with federal law enforcement.

“Not only is the Trump administration violating the constitutional rights of Portlanders, but they are also attempting to use Portland as a proving ground for fascism, and they plan to invade cities across the country, cities that are political targets of the president,” City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly said.

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On Friday, the city sent the federal government a cease-and-desist letter directing authorities to remove fencing around the courthouse. Eudaly’s proposed resolution, passed earlier this week, banned the police department from cooperating with federal agents — a decision that Morgan said will cost agents’ lives.

“It’s got a potential to have deadly impact — deadly impact, and I’m not being hyperbolic,” Morgan said. He pointed to a breakdown of communication between government entities before the Sept. 11 attacks as proof of the potential for dire consequences.

“So, now you have a city council that is telling their police department that they cannot, cannot share information or intelligence with another law enforcement agency — and that includes even information against life. So what the city council has told the police department  is basically that if you have information — even if a federal law enforcement life is in danger that they cannot share that information with that agency,” he said.

“That is outrageous, it’s irresponsible, and it’s a classic example of these local politicians putting politics before public safety … When did law enforcement in this situation become the enemy?” he asked.

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The resolution’s wording specifically blocks police from sending or receiving “operational support” from federal agents. Portland’s police department did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment. By press time, the mayor’s office had not yet provided clarification on whether police can provide information about threats to agents’ lives.

“Communication has all but broke down,” Morgan said, claiming that the city wasn’t making efforts to prevent violence.

Wheeler’s office pointed Fox News to comments President Trump made on “Hannity” — apparently to indicate that the poor relationship was a two-way street.  “Mayor Wheeler. And he’s—he made a fool out of himself,” he said Thursday. “He wanted to be among the people, so he went into the crowd, and they knocked the hell out of him. That was the end of him. So it was pretty, uh, pretty pathetic,” Trump said.

Portland’s mayor has indicated he sees federal agents as an enemy force. “This is not a de-escalation strategy,” Wheeler said. “This is flat-out urban warfare and it’s being brought on this country by the president and it’s got to stop now.” While speaking with Fox News, Morgan insisted his agency had the authority to enter cities like Portland. “What we’re talking about is a surge to assist federal authorities that are already in the city,” he said.

Morgan has been on the forefront of countering a torrent of criticism and allegations that he claims are false about his agents. Media outlets and protesters have alleged that federal agents were abusing their authority and sidestepping civil liberties in dealing with the crowds.

Meanwhile, DHS has said that individuals — not fit to be called protesters, according to Morgan — attacked their agents and committed federal crimes.

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CBP agents have seen at least seven injuries, including chemical burning of an agent’s neck and a required hospitalization due to a shin injury. On Friday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that three agents were likely blinded by laser attacks.

“A federal agent’s hand was impaled by planted nails, another federal agent was shot with a pellet gun, leaving a wound deep to the bone, and tragically, three federal officers were likely left permanently blinded by the rioters using lasers pointed directly into their eyes,” she said.

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Morgan maintained that he was aware of no wrong-doing on his agent’s part, noting that he receives “very detailed reports” on the situation “literally hour by hour.” Oregon officials worried about agents’ actions appeared to be successful in prompting a federal investigation. Both DHS and the Justice Department announced on Thursday that they would pursue probes into agents’ conduct.

When asked about DOJ’s investigation, Morgan said: “I understand that DHS [Department of Homeland Security] IG [Inspector General] has initiated some inquiries. I am aware of that as well. Here’s what I’ll say: I’m very confident based on all the information that I know — which is considerable.”