WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, an ABC News affiliate reported, citing sources, adding the condition of the two people shot was not immediately known.
Edit 6 was my last update in here. I’ll be posting in the thread now.
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Edit 1
Soon “the shooting” updates will need specifiers.
CNN
23 min ago
Protesters chant and hold signs a few blocks from where shooting happened
That CNN update is for Minneapolis. I’m going to become The Joker.
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According to CNN all they know is that the two victims are alive.
CNN
1 min ago
Two people shot by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, local police and FBI say
Two people are hospitalized after they were shot by federal agents, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement.
It is not immediately clear what their conditions are. The FBI Portland office said in a post on X that the shooting involved Customs and Border Protection agents and they are leading the investigation.
Today at 2:18 p.m. PT, Portland police officers responded to the 10200 block of Southeast Main Street for a report of a shooting, the release said. Officers confirmed federal agents had been involved in the shooting, they said.
At 2:24 p.m., officers responded to a man and a woman who had been shot near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside, where they were transported to the hospital, the release said. It is not immediately clear why the different locations were reported.
“We are still in the early stages of this incident,” said Chief Bob Day. “We 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.”
CNN has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for further information.
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CNN
A shooting in Portland, Oregon, involved Border Patrol agents doing a car stop of a married couple, according to a senior law enforcement source. The husband and wife were shot, the source said.
The husband was shot in the arm and the wife was shot in the chest and their condition is currently unknown, the source added.
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NBC
Portland police are not handling the investigation into today’s shooting but are assisting, Sergeant Kevin Allen briefly told reporters. Allen said the department responded to the original reporting call and officers are securing the scene.
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CNN
A US Border Patrol agent “fired a defensive shot” during a vehicle stop of a Venezuelan migrant, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
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A Bluesky post
KATU ABC reporting the shooting happened by an awning at the medical center where there must be video cameras so there should be footage of the shooting.
The lack of clarity and the information chaos is high but I tend to agree with the poster.
First governor to use their National Guard to expel Ice is gonna be president if there are ever elections again
Gavin Newsom is furiously calling up his consultants to see how he can appear to be first to “limit” ICE/CBP but not actually do anything.
“Is there any way we can meme ICE out of California?”
Anchor Mike: “In an explosive development Gavin Newsom’s press office has just made a crushing tweet. It begins with all caps ‘ORANGE MAN BAD AND ICE MUST FOLLOW THE LAW’. We now go live to our Social Media Guy.”
Social Media Guy. “Mike, it’s trending and hot.”
Anchor Mike: “How trending and how hot?”
Social Media Guy. “Very trending and very hot. The tweet appears to indicate Governor Newsom is attempting massive ownage in his plan to ‘limit’ ICE’s activity in the state. Also - Mike - don’t forget that using all caps is Gavin Newsom’s press office’s SOP.”
Anchor Mike: “Oh, that’s right! Ha-ha-ha.”
Social Media Guy. “I know - right? Ha-ha-ha.” He goes into serious news voice. “Details are thin on the ground but experts I consulted say…”
Yes, yes, yes, but how many people died, how many bullets were used, and how many weapons were fired? There are a lot of bets riding on this, and members in the White House stand to make a lot of money if their bets win.
DNC strategists already thinking up ways to get him to (appear to) compromise and instead find a way to sell giving ICE more resources and permanent lodging as the progressive solution
Newsom announces his ECEI project with great fanfare because of course he does.
“ECEI heralds a new era in immigration enforcement. Strong but firm. And you can’t spell E-C-E-I without ICE! Empowering Compliance by Empowering ICE™ is all about…”
Fuck Gavin Newsom. He sent special CHP squads out to cities to “prove we don’t need national guard” or some shit. So fighting authoritarianism with a different authoritarianism? Im deathly afraid of what ICE would do under Newsom’s control
The one time in American history when a state militia was on the side of good:
It resulted in a victory for the union and was followed in 1903 by the Colorado Labor Wars. It is notable for being the only time in United States history when a state militia was called out (May/June 1894) in support of striking workers.
The strike was characterized by firefights and use of dynamite, and ended after a standoff between the Colorado state militia and a private force working for owners of the mines. In the years after the strike, the WFM’s popularity and power increased significantly through the region.
Davis Waite, a Populist, was the governor who called in the militia. He was ratfucked by his Republican legislature and lost a close election later that year. Ten years later, when a pro-miners’ union candidate was close to winning the governor’s office, they outright stole the election:
Peabody ran for a second term in 1904, but was vilified by his opponents, who declared “Anybody but Peabody!” and felt that he was in league with the mine owners. Peabody’s opponent, Democrat Alva Adams, ripped into his handling of the Cripple Creek strike and insisted that he could handle Colorado’s vicious “industrial warfare.” After the election, it appeared Adams had won, but Republicans, who still controlled the state legislature, insisted that significant fraud and corruption had conspired to steal the election from Peabody (in reality, both sides had committed major violations of election law). On the day that Adams took office (March 17, 1905), the Republican-controlled legislature voted to remove him from office and reinstall Peabody, on the condition that Peabody immediately resign. He did so,[1] and at day’s end it was Peabody’s lieutenant governor, Jesse McDonald, who occupied the governor’s mansion in Denver – thus making Colorado the only state to have three different governors (Adams, Peabody, McDonald) on the same day.
given the year, Populist here means the sort-of protosocialist farmers (and some other shit like monetary policy) party. The conflation of the Populists with right-wing populism is a smear by the bourgeois blah blah you know the drill.
I don’t see it happening tbh. Democratic voters chose the neoliberal centrism of Biden over even the extremely watered down social democracy of Bernie.
Dems are too detached from reality to be this based.
Kotek’s a huge fucking coward and so’s the city leadership so it won’t happen in Portland.
We’re not at expulsion yet, but MN is staging them rn:
https://www.kaaltv.com/news/gov-walz-authorizes-minnesota-national-guard-to-be-staged/
Well, I guess we’re off to the races when it comes to ICE/CBP shooting and murdering.
The latest incident gave them immunity to these types of actions.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just started massacring crowds at this point.
Chuds might finally get their dream of a car driving into a crowd of protesters
I dont want to live in this world and im trying to change it but goddamn.
Trump just needs to say “If you love America - you can help clear the streets with your car.”
I am fucking scared and angry and tired.
The escalation coming was obvious because pigs gonna pig but you gotta imagine the fever pitch of “more angry than scared” is coming soon. Stay safe out there friends
I used to live a few hours from Portland. I saw bands at small concert halls and bars there. I once sat in an apartment with some hippies and punks smoking hand rolled cigs talking about the Big Bang and whether vampires could be real. Those are some of my favorite memories of young dumb 20s. To see it become an epicenter of white fascist thuggery is really doing things to my brain when I read the news from there.
If they never face justice for their crimes I hope these vile pieces of shit redact themselves with their “sErViCeWeAPoN” as a consolation prize. Fuckin boots.
And my parents ask why I don’t leave my room 😶🌫️
Trump is saying it’s open season on the poor.
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Must. Not. Fedpost.
Trump’s FBI has clearly taken over.
NBC
Portland police are not handling the investigation into today’s shooting but are assisting, Sergeant Kevin Allen briefly told reporters. Allen said the department responded to the original reporting call and officers are securing the scene.
BREAKING: IN 100% UNSURPRISING NEWS AGENT LIES LIKE TRUMP
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NBC
Agent feared for ‘life and safety’ when he fired in Portland, DHS says
A Department of Homeland Security official said that a federal agent feared for “his life and safety” when he fired today in a shooting that wounded two people in Portland, Oregon.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said that Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop involving a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who she said was affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and was accused in a recent shooting in Portland. The driver was believed to be a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, she said.
“When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents,” McLaughlin said in a statement.
“Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot,” she said. “The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene. This situation is evolving and more information is forthcoming.”
So it’s almost guaranteed that they were driving away from the feds, not towards them
Or told them to move their car to another part of the road by pulling forward. That’s basically what they did in Minneapolis.
“a defensive shot”, yet two people in the hospital with holes in them… Seems that that new budget allows them to buy magic bullets!
I’ve often wondered how bad things need to get with US officials before the average American starts to feel that maybe every interaction with them should be self-defensive in nature. How bad does it get before people who carry are just shooting ICE agents on sight? I’m not fedposting, I actually think that would be bad, but one has to wonder.
I saw on IG people comparing ICE to the IDF, specifically in the case where they shot that white woman who was not a threat from point blank and they refused to let people to check up on her
An NBC update. Note - the FBI’s tweet was deleted. That’s not surprising. How the fuck can they instantly led the investigation over a shooting that happened an hour or two ago??? Also - fuck NBC for providing zero content.
19 min. ago
FBI in Portland says federal agents involved in shooting that injured 2
The FBI in Portland, Oregon, said it is investigating a shooting in the city involving federal agents that injured two people today.
“FBI Portland is investigating an agent involved shooting that happened at approximately 2:15pm near the 10000 block of Main St. in Portland involving Customs and Border Patrol Agents in which 2 individuals were wounded,” the FBI said on X.
“This remains an active and ongoing investigation led by the FBI,” it said.
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The deleted tweet
“Regarding this matter” - Daddy Trump did you see our tweet???
102nd and 146th are very different places. Like a 15 minute drive apart. What the fuck happened?
My hunch is that the Gestapo is trying to tightly control the flow of information but many of the people directly involved in doing that are morons.
And neither are close to the ice facility on the west side of the river
The people were shot, drove on a ways, then flagged down local cops is what the news mega says
I’m still not fully up to date on the last one :doomjak:
I assume the Wiki page about her murder is pretty good. If you can’t stomach it - avoid video and photos. It’s bleak and horrible. I had to see that stuff. I don’t exactly regret seeing it. I just had to see it.
