(Los Angeles) Two people were injured Thursday by shootings by federal police officers in Portland, police in this Oregon city announced, an incident likely to fuel tensions in the United States, where a woman was killed the day before in Minneapolis by another federal agent.
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“Two people were hospitalized following a shooting involving federal agents,” municipal police explained in a press release.
The local branch of the FBI briefly announced that it was investigating the action of border police agents (CBP), in a message on X, before withdrawing its publication a few minutes later.
The condition of the victims, a man and a woman, remains “unknown,” according to Portland police.
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FBI agents are present to begin the investigation.
According to the daily The Oregonianone was hit in the leg and the other in the torso in the parking lot of a medical clinic. It would be a married couple.
This new shooting involving federal agents comes just after the death of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis the day before, killed by an immigration police agent (ICE).
His death pushed thousands of people to take to the streets and provoked heated controversy around the instructions given by the Trump administration to the police forces responsible for fighting immigration.
Vice-President JD Vance defended tooth and nail Thursday the theory of self-defense in the Minneapolis tragedy, ensuring that the agent involved acted to protect his life and that of his colleagues, while the victim tried to run them over by car.
But this version is strongly contested by the local democratic opposition, which relies on several videos showing the woman in a car and the police officer standing next to the vehicle.
“Just one day after the horrific violence committed by federal agents in Minnesota, our community here in Portland is now facing another deeply disturbing incident,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement.
“We cannot stand idly by as constitutional protections erode and bloodshed increases,” he added. “Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘total force’ wielded by the administration has deadly consequences. »
The Democratic councilor called on ICE to “cease all operations in Portland until a thorough investigation can be conducted.”
He also called on residents to “calm” in this city which had experienced violent demonstrations during Donald Trump’s first term.
