Portland Pride Waterfront Festival in Oregon is scheduled for this weekend. Their security strategy entails a combination of local law enforcement, private security, de-escalation teams and infrastructure support from several local jurisdictions, she said. Porta has been volunteering with Pride Northwest since 2006 and said safety has always been a top priority at the annual event and this year is no different. When Debra Porta, executive director of Pride Northwest Inc., heard about what happened in Idaho, she felt “disappointment that we still face this kind of thing and reminded that our communities are stronger together than they are apart,” she told CNN in a statement.
The group was headed to a Pride in the Park event at Coeur d’Alene City Park and had plans to riot, police said. Over two dozen men were arrested after an alarmed 911 caller reported a group dressed like a “little army” getting into a moving truck.
