CBRN event in United States of America on Sat 24th January 2026

Portlanders called on protesters to gather Saturday at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in the South Waterfront neighborhood to condemn the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis. The man was identified by his parents as Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer on Jan. 7.

Bystanders captured Saturday’s shooting of Pretti on video, which quickly went viral. Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand, but no videos appear to show him with a visible weapon.

The latest: Protesters converge on Portland ICE facility after latest Minneapolis shooting, met with tear gas

Earlier 8:00 p.m. Federal officers deployed chemical munitions against protesters at least four times by 8 p.m. Officers’ use of tear gas, smoke grenades and other chemical munitions is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed in December by the manager of the Gray’s Landing apartment complex across the street from the ICE facility. Reach Community Development, which owns Gray’s Landing, asked a judge to end what it alleged was officers’ “shocking and unconstitutional poisoning” of its residents and their apartments. On Saturday night, protesters who were gassed fled across the street to the entrance to the Gray’s Landing parking garage, where protesters who acted as medics had established a makeshift “medical triage.”

7:45 p.m. Federal officers emerged from the ICE facility just before 7:40 p.m. to once again deploy tear gas into the crowd. Many protesters wore gas masks in preparation. Protesters continued to fill the street with chants of “ICE out of Portland.” A haze of gas drifted into the night sky. The crowd, now around 300 people, moved back but did not disperse.

6:15 p.m. Federal officers deployed tear gas against protesters who funneled into the ICE building driveway and pushed a large metal trash bin up against the facility’s white barred gates. The actions recalled the intensity of summer 2025 protests at the facility, when several people used a stop sign as a makeshift battering ram to break the front door of the ICE building. Most protests over the months at the ICE facility have remained nonviolent.

5:30 p.m. Tensions immediately rose once a group of an estimated 300 demonstrators who marched from Elizabeth Caruthers Park made it to the Portland ICE building and joined with the group already there. The total crowd size had by then grown the between 400 and 500 people. Demonstrators filled the Portland ICE facility driveway. They tend to stay off the driveway because a thick, painted blue line demarcates the federal property line, and crossing it usually triggers federal officers to emerge and detain demonstrators. Federal officials made periodic announcements from a loudspeaker that this is an unlawful assembly.

5 p.m. Some 75 protesters gathered outside the Portland ICE building by mid-afternoon. Another 300 gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park down the street before marching to Portland ICE. Speakers condemned the latest shooting and called for federal immigration agents to decamp the city. Portland resident Rick Mitchell, 73, of Portland, said he is a legal observer who came out to protest yet another fatal shooting by federal officers. He said conflicting reports have emerged about the events leading to Alex Pretti’s death in Minnesota on Saturday. “But let’s just say the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t have a very good record on telling the truth,” Mitchell said.

4 p.m. Portlanders were beginning to gather at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in the city’s South Waterfront neighborhood. Organizers said they planned to march to the nearby ICE building, where dozens of protesters had already gathered.

3 p.m. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Council President Jamie Dunphy called on protesters to remain peaceful in the wake of a shooting by a Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis that killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday. Read more: Portland mayor, council president call for peaceful protests in wake of fatal Minneapolis shooting

2 p.m. Oregon lawmakers denounced a federal officer’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis on Saturday. In a social media post, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, said footage of the shooting “shows Donald Trump’s lawless federal agents again out of control.” Read more: Oregon lawmakers denounce federal officer’s fatal shooting in Minneapolis ICE in Oregon Another shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis renews protests in Portland Portland police arrest 4 during Saturday protests against Minneapolis Border Patrol shooting Man killed by Border Patrol in Minneapolis was nurse at a veterans hospital, family says. Bystanders captured Saturday’s shooting of Pretti on video, which quickly went viral. Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand, but no videos appear to show him with a visible weapon. Live updates have concluded.