A Portland councilor’s push to ban masked cops used a story police say isn’t true

The outline of the case seemed especially terrifying in Portland City Councilor Sameer Kanal’s telling.

A masked man, he said, walked into a Southeast Portland 7-Eleven, identified himself as a federal immigration agent and tried to hold up an employee.

Except, not all of that was true. The 19-year-old man, whom police arrested a few blocks away, was never wearing a mask, police and prosecutors say…

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