This is Portland Police saying this, so a slightly smaller grain of salt than the Rock of Gibraltar sized one for the DHS tweet.
Male shot in the arm released to FBI custody, female shot in the chest still hospitalized and stable.
Police do not have the right to pass judgement.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here but I wish they’d stop saying this shit. They shouldn’t be commenting on any investigation in public so a fair trial can happen.
ACAB
Even if they both have a history of violence, that doesn’t mean them being shot is remotely acceptable.
Yeah, pending any real evidence, I’m gonna call
BULLSHIT
The federal government’s criteria for being considered a member of Tren de Aragua is 1. being Venezuelan and 2. having any tattoo - despite the gang not using tattoos as an identifying marker. So, I’m gonna need more than “unspecified ties” from the police to consider this anything more than justifying another attempt to murder someone trying to escape the US gestapo.
Yeah, we saw how that “worked” with the MS-13 guy.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/abrego-garcias-tattoos-explainer
“Couple was extra-judicially murdered because…”
There is no way to conclude that sentence that anyone should give a rat’s ass about. If you buy this sort of post-facto justification for the Brown Shirts murdering people, you’re a Nazi.
I don’t disagree, but for the sake of accuracy, both are still alive. One shot in the arm has been discharged from the hospital, the other shot in the chest is still hospitalized but stable.
So the person that was shot, who has ties with a gang, had no pending charges and was released from the hospital? That sounds a lot like, “We had no reason to shoot them.”
Released to FBI custody.
For the sake of fairness, attempted murder is just as bad as successful murder in terms of intent. It’s good that the victims didn’t die on the spot, at least.
If they were, they wouldn’t have called 911…
So I suspect the “ties” are gonna end up something like testifying against them and getting refugee status here as a form of witness protection.
I’d say we should wait for details, but we can’t count on local PD in a major city to be the truth tellers either.
“Hello, 911? Your friendly neighborhood cartel bro here. Yeah, just wanted to tell you my exact location so you can come pick me up while I’m incapacitated. No, this isn’t my burner phone, this is my regular one with the caller ID. Took out a Fed on my way down, so you might wanna send some heavily armed cops too, tee hee :3”
“Ties”-- being from the same country, or maybe an adjacent one.
I was waiting on actual identification of the victims. It wouldn’t have surprised me if CBP got the wrong ID.
I can’t find anything about this on xitter or bluesky. Usually these kinds of events have more people talking about them.
The big one was the DHS post shortly after the shooting:
