PORTLAND, Ore. — Newly obtained documents allege that a federal agent at Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility threatened to shoot and arrest an ambulance driver during a tense standoff earlier this month. The reports, filed by two medical responders, describe an alarming confrontation that occurred while they were attempting to transport a patient to the hospital.
According to radio logs and internal incident reports obtained by Willamette Week, the conflict unfolded late on October 5, when an American Medical Response (AMR) crew was dispatched to the ICE facility at 4310 S. Macadam Avenue. The call was for a protester who had reportedly suffered a dislocated or broken collarbone.
At 9:19 p.m., the two-person ambulance team arrived, and by 9:30 p.m., the patient had been loaded into the vehicle without incident. But as the medics prepared to leave, they found their path blocked by federal agents, who insisted the ambulance remain inside the facility…