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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Edit 2

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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Edit 3

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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Edit 4

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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Edit 5

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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Edit 6

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.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      19 days ago

      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.