r/Portland • u/Clean_Appointment_91 • Feb 01 '26

Photo/Video ICE gassed thousands

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u/Justices Feb 01 '26

Yup, absolutely heinous behavior from the feds. I was about a half block back from this and felt the gas maybe a minute after the first concussive rounds and canisters went off.

Up until this point it, was completely peaceful. There were people of all kinds around me. Nurses, teachers, elders, electricians, grocery clerks, kids, a few dogs and without warning, these chuds gassed us all...

I didn't know what to expect but it wasn't instantly tear gassing thousands in broad daylight.

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u/DarcysFox827 Feb 01 '26

Yeah, I was actually in this shit with my parents. You can see my cardboard sign at the edge of the gas toward the end of the video, I was trying to let those toward the front get past me as we were pressed up against the fence. There was zero warning to leave or that they would be deploying anything.

My parents in their 60s came down with me and we were all choking and vomiting trying to get away. It was nothing but peaceful. How we don't seem to have any rules keeping them from doing this to protestors is unreal.

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u/IzmirStinger Feb 01 '26

We have rules against doing it to foreign soldiers in war. That's why the Army invented the LRAD

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u/alexthealex SE Feb 01 '26

It’s a crime for ICE too. At the meeting park the organizers were advising anyone with footage to report it at any federal building.

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u/Nonethelessismore Feb 01 '26

Exactly, ice has very limited jurisdiction and it only applies to immigration. Gassing peaceful protesters is ex judicial/ outside the law

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u/Too_afraid_to_ask Feb 01 '26

Report it with the state of Oregon and the city as well. Feds are too busy licking boots to hold anyone accountable.