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Federal agents in the United States have shot and injured two people in the city of Portland, Oregon, a city where the administration of President Donald Trump has led an immigration enforcement crackdown.<\/p>\n
The shooting was the second time in less than a day that federal immigration authorities claimed to have fired upon a vehicle in self-defence, following a deadly shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n On Thursday, the Portland Police Department announced they had responded to reports of gunfire on southeast Main Street at about 2:18pm local time (22:18 GMT).<\/p>\n \u201cOfficers confirmed that federal agents had been involved in a shooting,\u201d the city said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n Emergency responders then received a call for assistance from one of the shooting victims, a man, at about 2:24pm (22:24 GMT) near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside in Portland\u2019s Hazelwood neighbourhood.<\/p>\n \u201cOfficers responded and found a male and female with apparent gunshot wounds,\u201d the statement said. \u201cOfficers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n The two shooting victims were transported to hospital. Their conditions remain unknown, according to the police, who were not involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n The local bureau of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed the shooting in a now-deleted post on social media, saying that the incident involved\u00a0Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents.<\/p>\n \u201cThis remains an active and ongoing investigation led by the FBI,\u201d Portland\u2019s FBI bureau said in the post.<\/p>\n Later, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offered its own account of what happened, describing the shooting as self-defence during a \u201ctargeted vehicle stop\u201d.<\/p>\n In a social media post<\/a>, DHS said its target was a passenger travelling inside a vehicle, who was affiliated with a \u201ctransnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting\u201d. The driver, DHS claimed, was a member of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents,\u201d DHS said in the post.<\/p>\n \u201cFearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n Details about Thursday\u2019s shooting remain unknown. But the administration of President Donald Trump has faced criticism for misrepresenting incidents where federal agents deployed violence as part of its nationwide immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n The Portland shooting comes one day after an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in her car in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n \u201cJust one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,\u201d Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts.\u201d<\/p>\n Good\u2019s death has triggered widespread outrage, as well as criticism that the Trump administration rushed to disseminate a misleading narrative about the Minneapolis shooting.<\/p>\n Video of Good\u2019s shooting showed the 37-year-old stopped in her SUV on a snowy Minneapolis road, appearing to wave other drivers by.<\/p>\n A vehicle carrying ICE officers stopped next to her vehicle, and agents approached her, reaching for the handle of her car door. One approached the front of her vehicle. As her car appeared to turn and manoeuvre away, that agent fired multiple times into the vehicle, killing Good.<\/p>\n In that case, too, Trump administration officials claim the ICE agent acted in self-defence, despite the fact that the vehicle did not seem to make contact with his body.<\/p>\n Trump asserted<\/a> \u2013 without evidence \u2013 that Good was a \u201cprofessional agitator\u201d who \u201cviolently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer\u201d. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also accused<\/a> Good of a \u201cdomestic act of terrorism\u201d, despite there being no evidence Good sought to harm the ICE agent.<\/p>\n Democratic officials have accused the Trump administration of spreading false narratives to distract from its own abuses during the immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n Still, officials in Portland repeatedly called for calm in the aftermath of Thursday\u2019s shooting, while acknowledging the parallels between the incidents.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are still in the early stages of this incident,\u201d Portland Police Chief Bob Day said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe understand the heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we work to learn more.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Wilson, meanwhile, called for federal immigration agents to leave the city, arguing that they had endangered local citizens with their heavy-handed actions.<\/p>\n \u201cPortland is not a \u2018training ground\u2019 for militarized agents, and the \u2018full force\u2019 threatened by the administration has deadly consequences,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed. Federal militarization undermines effective, community\u2011based public safety, and it runs counter to the values that define our region.\u201d<\/p>\n Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, meanwhile, expressed \u201chuge concern\u201d over the incident and suggested that responding with anger would only fuel the Trump administration\u2019s fixation with Portland.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump wants to generate riots,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cDon\u2019t take the bait.\u201d<\/p>\n Portland has long been a focal point of Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement actions, and the increased federal presence has ignited largely nonviolent protests in response.<\/p>\n Long seen as a Democratic stronghold, Portland was identified in May as one of the \u201csanctuary jurisdictions\u201d that the Trump administration identified as resisting its immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n The Republican president hinted he could surge federal agents to the area in response.<\/p>\n In September, those threats appeared to materialise when Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that he would be sending the US military to support immigration operations in the city.<\/p>\n The announcement came five days after Trump declared<\/a> antifa \u2013 the loose-knit antifascist movement \u2013 a \u201cdomestic terrorist organisation\u201d.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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