DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Portland police have urged calm as the shooting remains under investigation, amid heightened tensions over ICE actions.Federal agents in the United States have shot two people in the city of Portland, Oregon, a city where the administration of President Donald Trump has led an immigration enforcement crackdown.On Thursday, the Portland Police Department announced they had responded to reports of gunfire on Southeast Main Street around 2:18pm local time (22:18 GMT).Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Officers confirmed that federal agents had been involved in a shooting,” the city said in a statement.Emergency responders then received a call for assistance from one of the shooting victims, a man, around 2:24pm (22:24 GMT) near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside in Portland’s Hazelwood neighbourhood.“Officers responded and found a male and female with apparent gunshot wounds,” the statement said. “Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel.”The two shooting victims were transported to a hospital. Their conditions remain unknown, according to the police.The local bureau of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed the shooting in a now-deleted post on social media, saying that the incident involved Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents.“This remains and active and ongoing investigation led by the FBI,” Portland’s FBI bureau said in the post.Later, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offered its own account of what happened, describing the shooting as self-defence during a “targeted vehicle stop”.In a social media post, DHS said its target was a passenger travelling inside a vehicle, who was affiliated with a “transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting”. The driver, DHS claimed, was a member of Tren de …
