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ICE Threatened to Shoot Ambulance Driver Picking Up Injured Portland Protester, Medics Say (www.commondreams.org)

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Amid report after report of increasingly aggressive tactics used by federal immigration enforcement, a pair of Portland medical workers say that an agent threatened to shoot them as they tried to transport an injured protester last week.

According to publicly archived dispatch records reported by Willamette Week, an ambulance crew was attempting to transport a protester with a broken or dislocated collarbone from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in southern Portland on October 5.

The facility has been a flashpoint in recent weeks as the site of several small but persistent protests, which the Trump administration has attempted to characterize as violent provocations by “antifa” in order to justify its deployment of military troops.

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[–] SylviaPlathm@feddit.online 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When governments are busy defining enemies, they forget to define humanity. In other words, the threats faced by medical workers as they save lives and treat the injured are like a mirror

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 day ago

They didn't forget anything. It's all intentional.