PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Two Portland police officers went to a hospital Thursday morning after a man assaulted them during a camp clean-up in Northwest Portland, authorities said.
Officers with the Portland Police Bureau’s Central Precinct Neighborhood Response Team were helping city workers with a clean-up near Northwest Flanders Street and Northwest 5th Avenue around 10 a.m. when a man whose campsite was being cleared attacked them, according to police.
Officers arrested the man, who was taken to a hospital for evaluation after hurting himself following the arrest. Both officers were treated for injuries that officials described as not life-threatening…