Portland mayor demands ICE leave city after federal agents teargas protesters

Key Highlights

• Erin Hoover Barnett, a former OregonLive reporter who joined the protest, said she was about 100 yards (91 metres) 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. Portland mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration was peaceful, “where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat and posed no danger” to federal agents.“To those who continue to work for ICE: resign.
• To those who control this facility: leave,” Wilson wrote in a statement on Saturday night.
• “Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”The Portland fire bureau sent paramedics to treat people at the scene, police said.
• Police officers monitored the crowd but made no arrests on Saturday. The Portland protest was one of many similar demonstrations nationwide against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities such as Minneapolis, where in recent weeks federal agents killed two residents, Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Federal agents in Eugene, Oregon, deployed teargas on Friday when protesters tried to get inside the federal building near downtown.
• City police declared a riot and ordered the crowd to disperse. Donald Trump posted on Saturday on social media that it was up to local law enforcement agencies to police protests in their cities.