The presence of camouflage-clad federal officers in cities like Portland, against the wishes of local and state authorities, threatens to sever the longstanding relationships between federal law enforcement and communities.
Federal agents who were sent to Portland amid unrest were not adequately trained in riot control or mass demonstrations, Homeland Security warned in an internal memo.
Federal officers in camouflage and unmarked minivans are detaining protesters in Portland without the approval of local and state officials.
ICE agents are no longer allowed to use the firing range and classroom space at its training center in Portland after police terminated a two-year contract.
An FBI special agent was shot by a booby-trapped wheelchair in a house rigged with explosive devices in southern Oregon.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors took a big hit on Friday in a Portland, Ore., courtroom. A federal jury found FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita not guilty after about six hours of deliberations over two days. He was accused of lying to conceal that he fired two shots at the truck of refuge occupation…
A federal jury has acquitted an FBI agent accused of lying to investigators about whether he fired his gun twice at a militia elder involved in the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The court battle began this week between the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland, Ore., and FBI agent Joseph Astarita who is charged with lying about firing his rifle at Robert LaVoy Finicum in the moments before the rancher was killed by state police on a rural Oregon highway. In opening statements…
