"All we have is the Department of Homeland Security's version of events. That, at around 2:20 P.M., Border Patrol agents approached a man and a woman in the parking lot of a hospital. That the man, who was driving the truck, attempted to run the agents over, causing one of the agents on the scene to discharge his weapon in self-defense."
"Wilson seemed to be referencing not just obviously false statements that had been made by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of the Minneapolis shooting-that the agent who shot Good had been run over and nearly died-he also appeared to be alluding to his own city's ongoing conflict with the White House."
A Federal Border Patrol agent opened fire on a truck in a Portland hospital parking lot; only the Department of Homeland Security's account of the incident is available. Local officials, including the mayor, express distrust of federal statements and recall earlier false claims after a Minneapolis shooting. Portland has been targeted by presidential attacks on sanctuary cities and faced plans to send federalized National Guard troops. The president publicly claimed dramatic crime reductions in Portland, while observers found the city largely unburnt and only nine National Guard members ultimately entered the city, with no widespread patrols.
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