Portland to Lincoln City is about 98 miles.
The latter sounding like a drunk with a sinus infection trying to say “Fuck him up!”
The FBI is saying this was a targeted vehicle stop, and the “assailants” attempted to assault the agents with their vehicle. Two agents, “fearing for their lives,” fired a single shot at the vehicle.
Somehow, this single bullet managed to hit both occupants. I’m guessing someone still doesn’t have complete or accurate information.
ETA: here’s the statement from a DHS spokesperson:
At 2:19 PST, U.S. Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon. The passenger of the vehicle and target is a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting in Portland. The vehicle driver is believed to be a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents.
Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene.
The FBI initially tweeted that it was investigating an “agent involved shooting.” It quickly deleted this tweet and replaced it with one saying they were “investigating an assault on a federal officers.”
Border Patrol can legally operate with 100 miles of the US border.
Check out this map:
Yet Charlotte is almost 200 miles away from the coast, and they acted there anyway. Note that they can “operate” anywhere within the United States, the 100 mile rule is for their ability to create checkpoints and board public transit to perform searches. They can also do that within an airport (but only within an airport, not within a certain distance of it).
As I said, they’ll come up with excuses to operate wherever they want to, and they conducted themselves around Charlotte the same way they would in a border area, against the law. But who was going to stop them? (Although they did leave after terrorizing the area for a while.)
DHS treats the law like the Pirate Code.
There’s a report now from a witness. In a surprise to no one, it contradicts the DHS statement that a shot was fired “defensively”.
A man who was at the medical building said he saw federal officers follow a Toyota truck into the parking lot of the office building and try to corner it.
One officer pounded on the window, he said. The driver then backed up and moved forward at least a couple of times, striking a car behind him, before turning and speeding off, said the man who gave only his first name. It’s not clear if the car hit by the truck belonged to the federal officers.
Officers fired about five shots at the truck as it left, the witness said.