Tear gas canister from ICE agents shatters window in occupied Portland apartment

Federal officers at Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility fired a tear gas canister that shattered the window of a nearby apartment during Saturday’s protest.

Thousands of demonstrators marched to the ICE facility Saturday, and federal officers quickly met them with tear gas, pepper balls, flash bang grenades and rubber bullets after some in the crowd crossed the building’s property line and approached its security gate.

One of those tear gas canisters broke a window on the southwest corner of the Gray’s Landing apartment building, according to Margaret Salazar, CEO of Reach Community Development, which owns the 209-unit low-income building. The third-floor unit was occupied at the time…

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