Mayor of #PortlandOregon, demands #ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters

Updated 7:00 PM EST, February 1, 2026
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — "The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched #TearGas at a crowd of demonstrators — including young children — outside an #ICE facility during a weekend protest that he characterized as peaceful.

"Witnesses said agents deployed tear gas, #PepperBalls and #RubberBullets as thousands of marchers arrived at the South Waterfront facility on Saturday. Erin Hoover Barnett, a former #OregonLive reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards (90 meters) from the building when 'what looked like two guys with rocket launchers' started dousing the crowd with gas.

" 'To be among parents frantically trying to tend to little children in strollers, people using motorized carts trying to navigate as the rest of us staggered in retreat, unsure of how to get to safety, was terrifying,' Barnett wrote in an email to OregonLive."

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https://apnews.com/article/portland-protest-tear-gas-mayor-keith-wilson-1f21fc3d3d4b7a2874239a29ece52c06

#USPol #Oregon #PortlandOR #ICEOut #AbolishICE #DefundICE #ICEOutForGood

#StatusCoup back at it on the ground in #minneapolis reporting the #ICE attacks on peaceful protesters who are in their 10s of 1000s still demanding #ICEout4Good #TrumpCoOUT in the freezing cold. they're being attacked with #flashgrenades #pepperballs #teargas

https://youtu.be/1ewIQn1bbYw?

#press #IndependentMedia #news #fascism

#StatusCoup back at it on the ground in #minneapolis reporting the #ICE attacks on peaceful protesters who are in their 10s of 1000s still demanding #ICEout4Good #TrumpCoOUT in the freezing cold. they're being attacked with #flashgrenades #pepperballs #teargas

https://youtu.be/1ewIQn1bbYw?

#press #IndependentMedia #news #fascism

Tensions are flaring in the #Minneapolis area, as #protesters & “law enforcement” clash after an #ICE agent fatally shot a woman yesterday. #PepperBalls have been fired toward a crowd of #demonstrators outside a federal building, with agents also deploying a #gas-like substance.

#ReneeNicoleGood #Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #tyranny #Sturmabteilung #RESIST
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-01-08-26?post-id=cmk5j135v00053b6pazaw785p

Trump’s #Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” #Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming #Protesters

Since President Donald #Trump ’s admin launched high-intensity immigration sweeps this year, federal agents have routinely countered protestors using crowd control weapons — #RubberBullets , flash-bang grenades, #TearGas and #PepperBalls. They’ve fired on American #citizens and noncitizens alike in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
#ice #cbp

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons

What kinds of less-lethal weapons have #ICE agents been using in the #Chicago area?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/immigration/2025/ice-less-lethal-weapons-explainer-tear-gas/

#Chicago judge questions Trump official over #ICE agents' use of force

By Diana Novak Jones and Joseph Ax
Mon, October 20, 2025

Excerpt: "A federal judge in Chicago on Monday grilled U.S. immigration officials about federal agents' use of tear gas and other forceful tactics against protesters as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown in the city.

"U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has repeatedly expressed concern that federal agents were violating her October 9 order requiring them to wear visible #identification and limiting their use of anti-riot weapons such as #PepperBalls and #TearGas. On Friday, Ellis ordered federal officers who have body cameras to turn them on while conducting immigration enforcement activity and during interactions with the public.

"At Monday's hearing, Ellis also said she would allow the plaintiffs in the case - protesters, journalists and clergy members who sued the Trump administration alleging they were deliberately brutalized during peaceful demonstrations - to question several officials under oath, including Gregory Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol official.

"In granting the plaintiffs' request, Ellis made it clear the litigation is limited to the tactics used by field agents, not the president's stated rationale.

" 'I don't think that it matters what the administration's objectives are or what goals they have or what ideology is pushing this enforcement action,' she said. 'This lawsuit...is all about how our ICE officials and #CBP officials are enforcing the laws.'

"Clashes between protesters and federal agents, particularly #BorderPatrol agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, have increased since Trump launched the crackdown in early September.

"Trump also ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area, part of the Republican president's extraordinary campaign to send military personnel to Democratic-run cities purportedly to fight crime. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the deployment, but the Justice Department has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the troops to proceed.

"Separately, a federal appeals court on Monday cleared the way for hundreds of Guard soldiers to deploy to Portland, Oregon, despite the objections of the Democratic mayor and governor there."

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-judge-questions-trump-official-211559155.html

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#SecretPolice #ICESucks #Disappeared
#Orwellian #ThoughtPolice #ICEOfficers #BigGuns #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #authoritarianism #ICE #MurderPatrol