A Portland police officer has been reassigned after he was captured on film Friday appearing to agree with the tactics used by federal officers when they fatally shot a Minnesota woman last week. Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed this decision in a statement to OPB Sunday morning.
In a video posted to TikTok Saturday morning, an unidentified officer is heard telling someone that “sometimes criminals get shot if they threaten a cop.” Text overlaying the video notes it was filmed on Friday night, outside of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
An unidentified person asks the officer if he would have shot Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The Trump administration has alleged Good was trying to “run over” the officer, who acted in self defense. But video taken of the incident and other witness accounts have challenged this narrative…