Federal law enforcement officers pepper-sprayed and detained several anti-ICE protesters Tuesday night at the federal building in Eugene.

The protest began around 2 p.m. Activists from Eugene said they’d been joined by a group who travelled from Portland.

Attendees, some of them in black masks and helmets, knocked on the glass doors of the federal building, which houses an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

They taunted employees inside with signs, fake donuts on sticks, and calls of “here, piggy piggy.” Some attendees climbed an art installation outside, while others wrote anti-ICE messaging on the ground in chalk.

Around 7:30 p.m., masked law enforcement officers emerged and corralled the crowd to the northeast side of the building. They then grabbed two protesters and

See Full Page