Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Federal officers stalled and threatened a Portland ambulance crew taking an injured protester from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to a hospital on Oct. 5, Willamette Week reported Monday.

American Medical Response employees made those claims in internal incident reports, Willamette Week wrote. The documents detail a heated exchange at the South Portland building, with one federal agent threatening to “shoot and arrest” one of the medics, the medic wrote in a report obtained by Willamette Week.

A representative for the union representing the ambulance crew confirmed the allegations to The Oregonian/OregonLive…

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