Overview
- The crowd that formed Saturday night outside the Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland drew a police presence, and videos showed chanting as no violence was reported.
- Protesters said they were denouncing what they call FBI weaponization and Patel’s handling of records tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
- Fox News Digital, citing unnamed sources, said Patel and his girlfriend were in Portland for a close friend’s funeral and that he helped carry the casket.
- Authorities and the hotel did not confirm that Patel was at the Sentinel, and reporters said it remained unclear where he stayed.
- Organizers said they used public flight-tracking to follow a Justice Department plane and watched downtown security to guess the hotel, a tactic also seen in January hotel protests in Minneapolis that targeted federal agents.