Oregon state police are shredding President Donald Trump's ICE agents after officers "suffered exposure" from tear gas during a protest outside an ICE facility in Portland earlier this month.
Judge Karin Immergut said she would decide on whether to hold the government in contempt and determine whether the government violated a temporary restraining order when officials refused to pause National Guard soldiers going into Portland, Oregon.
New evidence was presented in court on Wednesday about the federal government firing on local law enforcement with pepper balls and chemical gas.
"Oregon State Police Capt. Cameron Bailey says his sergeant & other officers 'suffered exposure' from tear gas after federal officers sprayed protest - adds there was no warning for law enforcement. Continues plaintiffs' main theme, that federal officers are endangering cops as well as protesters," Talking Points Memo reporter and co-host of the John Marshall podcast Kate Riga wrote on Bluesky.
People at the protest said the scene in early October was alarming.
"Commander Franz Schoening of the Portland Police Bureau describes a protest in early October outside the ICE facility featuring lots of 'older' people - says it was 'startling' to watch federal officers use tear gas on the crowd, that it wasn't 'best practices' or justified," Riga said.
The DOJ attempted to stop the testimony in court, with the judge blocking the objections.
"Pattern emerging - commander keeps describing 'indiscriminate' force used, unprompted, by federal officers against protesters, and DOJ jumps in with an objection to break up flow of testimony. Judge Immergut consistently overruling objections," Riga added.
Trump has alleged that the National Guard is necessary because his "people" told him that Portland was burning to the ground.