Two people were shot and wounded by US Border Patrol officers in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
Portland police said officers responding to emergency calls found a man and a woman with apparent gunshot wounds.
“Two people are in the hospital following a shooting involving federal agents,” Portland police โ said in a statement. Their conditions were not immediately known.
Local police stressed that their officers were not involved in the incident.
What did authorities say?
The FBI said โit โwas probing the shooting in which the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents were involved.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson urged residents to remain calm in a statement, and called for another agency,ย Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE), “to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”ย
The โDepartment โ of Homeland Security, which oversees both CBP and ICE, claimed on social mediaย that the Portland driver “weaponized” โ the vehicle during a โ vehicle โstop before an officer “fired โa defensive shot.”
The department alleged the passengers were “illegal aliens” and said they were the target for the initial stop.
Officials from both ICE and Border Patrol have been deployed in cities across the US as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The shooting comes a day after a US citizen was shot dead by ICEย in Minneapolis, sparking major protests there and elsewhere.
Edited by: Zac Crellin