FBI says it hasn't found video of Border Patrol shooting in Portland

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The FBI said successful a tribunal papers made nationalist Monday that it had recovered nary surveillance oregon different video of a Border Patrol cause shooting and wounding 2 radical successful a pickup motortruck during an migration enforcement cognition successful Portland, Oregon, past week.

Agents told investigators that 1 of their colleagues opened occurrence Thursday aft the operator enactment the motortruck successful reverse and repeatedly slammed into an unoccupied car the agents had rented, smashing its headlights and knocking disconnected its beforehand bumper. The agents said they feared for their ain information and that of the public, the papers said.

The FBI has interviewed 4 of the six agents connected the scene, the papers said. It did not place the cause who fired the shots.

The shooting, which came 1 time aft a national cause changeable and killed a operator successful Minneapolis, prompted protests implicit national agents' assertive tactics during migration enforcement operations. The Department of Homeland Security has said the 2 radical successful the motortruck entered the U.S. illegally and were affiliated with the Venezuelan pack Tren de Aragua.

None of the six agents was signaling assemblage camera footage, and investigators person uncovered nary surveillance oregon different video footage of the shooting, FBI Special Agent Daniel Jeffreys wrote successful an affidavit supporting aggravated battle and spot harm charges against the driver, Luis David Nino-Moncada.

The motortruck drove distant aft the shooting, which occurred successful the parking batch of a aesculapian bureau building. Nino-Moncada called 911 aft arriving astatine an flat analyzable respective minutes away. He was placed successful FBI custody aft being treated for a gunshot coiled to the limb and abdomen.

During an archetypal quality Monday day successful national tribunal successful Portland, helium wore a achromatic sweatshirt and sweatpants and appeared to clasp retired his near limb gingerly astatine an angle.

An interpreter translated the judge's comments for Nino-Moncada. The justice ordered that helium stay successful detention and scheduled a preliminary proceeding for Wednesday.

The agent's affidavit said that aft being work his rights, Nino-Moncada "admitted to intentionally ramming the Border Patrol conveyance successful an effort to flee, and helium stated that helium knew they were migration enforcement vehicles."

In a connection connected Monday, the Justice Department described the harm to the borderline patrol conveyance arsenic "significant," posting images that amusement superior harm to the beforehand bumper and some headlights.

His passenger, Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, was hospitalized aft being changeable successful the thorax and connected Monday was being held astatine a backstage migration detention installation successful Tacoma, Washington, according to an online detainee locator strategy maintained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She faces a complaint of amerciable introduction into the U.S., which national prosecutors successful Texas filed past week. The national nationalist defender's bureau for the Western District of Texas did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek person condemned the shooting and demanded a halt to national migration operations.

"ICE agents and their Homeland Security enactment indispensable beryllium afloat investigated and held liable for the unit inflicted connected the American radical — successful Minnesota, successful Portland, and crossed the nation," Wilson said successful a connection connected Friday.

Nino-Moncada and Zambrano-Contreras are Venezuelan nationals and entered the U.S. illegally successful 2022 and 2023, respectively, the Department of Homeland Security said. It identified Nino-Moncada arsenic an subordinate of Tren de Aragua and Zambrano-Contreras arsenic progressive successful a prostitution ringing tally by the gang. The Trump medication past twelvemonth designated Tren de Aragua as a overseas violent organization.

"Anyone who crosses the reddish enactment of assaulting instrumentality enforcement volition beryllium met with the afloat unit of this Justice Department," Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday successful a quality merchandise announcing charges against Nino-Moncada. "This antheral — an amerciable alien with ties to a overseas violent enactment — should NEVER person been successful our state to statesman with, and we volition guarantee helium NEVER walks escaped successful America again."

Oregon Federal Public Defender Fidel Cassino-DuCloux, whose bureau represents Nino-Moncada, said successful a connection past week that the shooting and the accusations against Nino-Moncada "follow a well-worn playbook that the authorities has developed to warrant the unsafe and unprofessional behaviour of its agents."

Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed past week that the brace had "some nexus" to the gang. Day said the 2 came to the attraction of constabulary during an probe of a July shooting believed to person been carried retired by pack members, but they were not identified arsenic suspects.

Zambrano-Contreras was antecedently arrested for prostitution, Day said, and Nino-Moncada was contiguous erstwhile a hunt warrant was served successful that case.

Amanda Arden contributed to this report.