Two people were shot and wounded by US Border Patrol officers in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Portland police said officers responding to emergency calls found a man and a woman with apparent gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
“Two people are in the hospital following a shooting involving federal agents,” Portland police \u2060said in a statement. Their conditions were not immediately known.<\/p>\n
Local police stressed that their officers were not involved in the incident.<\/p>\n
Portland’s mayor urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ‘end all operations’ in the cityImage: Jenny Kane\/AP Photo\/picture alliance<\/p>\n
What did authorities say?<\/p>\n
The FBI said \u200bit \u200bwas probing the shooting in which the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents were involved.<\/p>\n
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson urged residents to remain calm in a statement<\/a>, and called for another agency,\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE), “to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The \u200cDepartment \u2060of Homeland Security, which oversees both CBP and ICE, claimed on social media\u00a0that the Portland driver “weaponized” \u2060the vehicle during a \u2060vehicle \u200dstop before an officer “fired \u200ca defensive shot.”<\/p>\n The department alleged the passengers was an “illegal alien” and said they were the target for the initial stop.<\/p>\n The shooting comes a day after a US citizen was shot dead<\/a> by ICE\u00a0in Minneapolis, sparking major protests there and elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is a breaking news story. More details to follow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were shot and wounded by US Border Patrol officers in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-396350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}