#Atlanta protesters attack federal building with fireworks, shatter windows

Atlanta Black Lives Matter protesters blasted a federal building with fireworks and shattered windows as they took out their wrath on an immigration office there on Saturday, according to reports.

Demonstrators smashed windows and set fires outside the downtown building, which houses Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, while footage from the protest posted on Twitter shows fireworks being hurled at the entrance.

“DHS/ICE Field Office ransacked by frontliners in Atlanta in solidarity with the freedom fighters of the #PortlandProtests and every other suffering poor person trying to build a new world,” one of the posts says.

Other posts, using the hashtag #PortlandSolidarity, said demonstrators had barricaded a section of Ted Turner Drive overnight, WXIA-TV said.

Portland has become one of the nation’s most volatile hotspots for protests, with nightly clashes with police for the past two months, with federal troops now there to attempt to quell the violence.

On Sunday morning, Atlanta police and Georgia National Guard troops had converged on the building to gather evidence from the night’s assault, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported.

The damage was “significant,” authorities said, with windows shattered, graffiti on the facade and char marks from fires and fireworks.