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Brian Schmautz, spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau, said protesters threw things at the police.
Protesters at one point pushed down a barricade and a female police officer who was standing behind it, Groepper said. The officer sprained or broke her wrist falling down, and two patrol cars were damaged, Groepper said.
Police ordered about 500 protesters to move. Riot police wearing helmets then walked into the area, pushing activists with their batons. Some activists fell. Police then fired aerosol canisters of pepper spray at the protesters.
Police also used pepper spray after about 150 demonstrators blocked vehicle access to Morrison Bridge.
Five protesters were arrested through the afternoon, police spokesman Henry Groepper said.
Many of the protesters criticized a new forest initiative announced earlier in the day by Bush that would make it easier for timber companies to cut wood from fire-prone national forests.

{now there's some unbiased journalism. he wants to stop the fires and those treelovers don't want him to. he wants to stop Saddam Hussein from killing puppies, and those baby-eating-bear-lovers are trying to stop him. the protesters throw things, the female police officer gets hurt, a human face, a human pain, and then 'some' protesters fall, facelessly, anonymously, not really human. I do believe the day is close at hand when these
hidden sentiments will begin to be expressed, in lives, in brutality beyond the unacceptable so common now. Ashcroft's little death camps, for sinners and the unclean. it gets religious. these are demons, or demon-ridden lost souls, doing the bidding of an invisible master. it's like potboiler fantasy made real.
the Two Towers, indeed. }