Two people shot by federal agents in Portland on Thursday “have some nexus” to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Portland Police said.

This is Portland Police saying this, so a slightly smaller grain of salt than the Rock of Gibraltar sized one for the DHS tweet.

Male shot in the arm released to FBI custody, female shot in the chest still hospitalized and stable.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    6 个月前

    If they were, they wouldn’t have called 911…

    So I suspect the “ties” are gonna end up something like testifying against them and getting refugee status here as a form of witness protection.

    I’d say we should wait for details, but we can’t count on local PD in a major city to be the truth tellers either.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 个月前

      “Hello, 911? Your friendly neighborhood cartel bro here. Yeah, just wanted to tell you my exact location so you can come pick me up while I’m incapacitated. No, this isn’t my burner phone, this is my regular one with the caller ID. Took out a Fed on my way down, so you might wanna send some heavily armed cops too, tee hee :3”

  • grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world
    30·
    6 个月前

    “Couple was extra-judicially murdered because…”

    There is no way to conclude that sentence that anyone should give a rat’s ass about. If you buy this sort of post-facto justification for the Brown Shirts murdering people, you’re a Nazi.

    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl
      22·
      6 个月前

      I don’t disagree, but for the sake of accuracy, both are still alive. One shot in the arm has been discharged from the hospital, the other shot in the chest is still hospitalized but stable.

      • Ech@lemmy.ca
        8·
        6 个月前

        For the sake of fairness, attempted murder is just as bad as successful murder in terms of intent. It’s good that the victims didn’t die on the spot, at least.

  • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    6 个月前

    The federal government’s criteria for being considered a member of Tren de Aragua is 1. being Venezuelan and 2. having any tattoo - despite the gang not using tattoos as an identifying marker. So, I’m gonna need more than “unspecified ties” from the police to consider this anything more than justifying another attempt to murder someone trying to escape the US gestapo.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    9·
    6 个月前

    Even if they both have a history of violence, that doesn’t mean them being shot is remotely acceptable.

  • Bakkoda@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 个月前

    As soon as the term deport was used to describe the wildly unconstitutional act of kidnapping someone people showed they were willing to pass judgement first in order to justify the violation. You can’t just walk that back.