They were professional fireworks. They were exploding at street and building level multiple times last year. The most recent was downtown on New Years.

Man if you think that's bad, you should've seen what many neighborhoods in major cities were like every night for a solid month leading up to July 4th last year. Aerial fireworks everywhere. There were even some structure fires as a result.

Not protest-related, mind you. Just idiocy-related.

I don't think you understand the severity of what antifa was doing in downtown Portland.