A crowd gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park, chanting for federal immigration officers and the controversial ICE facility to get out of the city and state.

Thousands of local union members and supporters gathered in Portland’s South Waterfront Saturday afternoon for an anti-ICE demonstration hosted by Oregon labor leaders. The family-friendly event turned chaotic after federal agents met the peaceful crowd with repeated rounds of tear gas as they marched outside Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.

Later, some protesters directly outside the ICE building also appeared to throw objects towards the roof where federal officers fired crowd control munitions, including flash-bang grenades and pepper balls. Portland police posted online that they had to close South Macadam Ave. for a period of time to “keep drivers from being affected” by the gas.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A coalition representing working families rallied in Salem on Thursday in the face of what they say are potentially massive cuts for critical programs. This comes on the fourth day of the Oregon Legislature’s brief session this year.