⁍ Portland police on Thursday cleared a downtown park, making at least one arrest.

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⁍ It was part of a plan for federal tactical police to leave the city following weeks of clashes with protesters.

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⁍ Oregon State Police requested the park be closed before their planned takeover of security at a nearby federal courthouse.

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– Portland police cleared a park downtown Thursday as part of a plan for federal tactical police to leave the city following weeks of clashes with protesters, Reuters reports. Oregon State Police requested the park be closed before their planned takeover of security at a nearby federal courthouse. President Trump said Thursday that Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is still not doing enough to rein in “Anarchists & Agitators” who have clashed with federal tactical police guarding the Portland courthouse on an almost nightly basis. “If she can’t do it, the Federal Government will do it for her. We will not be leaving until there is safety!” Trump tweeted. Brown responded that Trump’s plan to ‘dominate’ the streets of American cities, announced in a June 1 speech as police used gas and batons to clear Washington protesters, had failed. “Today, federal troops are preparing to leave downtown Portland,” she tweeted. The US Department of Homeland Security deployed tactical agents to protect the courthouse in early July after protesters set fires inside the structure, broke windows, and graffitied its walls. Their presence drew national attention after camouflage-clad agents were videoed snatching a protester off the street and whisking him away in an unmarked minivan. Democrats and civil rights groups said agents were acting as an unconstitutional, occupying force and committing civil rights violations. The Portland clashes sparked a standoff between Trump and Democratic mayors who said his deployment of federal police to their cities was a political stunt dangerously escalating tensions among racial justice and police violence protesters.