Judge is considering a temporary order after agents used teargas on protesters during a weekend demonstration
A judge is considering a temporary order placing restrictions on federal officers’ use of force during protests after a weekend demonstration in Portland, Oregon, where agents used teargas on a crowd that included children.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on Saturday in what Keith Wilson, the city’s mayor, described as a peaceful demonstration “where the vast majority of those present violated no laws, made no threat and posed no danger” to federal agents.
The protest was part of a wave of demonstrations across the US in response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the killings of two US citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents in Minneapolis. In Portland, agents used teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets on the crowd outside the South Waterfront facility.
“They’re teargassing children. They’re teargassing elderly people. They’re teargassing families,” attorney Matthew Borden said during a hearing on Monday, according to Oregon Live.
