In Portland, protests have raged after the shooting of two suspects being pursued by ICE officers. Media accounts immediately portrayed the shooting as excessive force on a Hispanic couple in their car. Later, Portland Police Chief Bob Day admitted that they withheld the suspected gang associations of the couple despite the early misleading accounts. Wiping away tears, Day said that he did not want to contribute to the “injustice.”
DHS officials say Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras are Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens and are believed to be members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua.
Moncada allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was arrested. However, the Biden Administration released him despite his record. At the time of the incident, he had a final order of removal.
Zambrano-Contreras was the passenger in the car and allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2023. She was also released during the Biden Administration. She allegedly “played an active role in a Tren de Aragua prostitution ring” and was previously accused of involvement in a shooting in Portland.
The ICE officers said that they wounded the two after they tried to run over officers. They were later found by the Portland Police Bureau and taken to a hospital.
DHS called the description of the two injured as a married couple “REVOLTING LIES,” declaring that “the two criminal illegal aliens who attacked Border Patrol in Portland are a gang member and his prostitute, NOT an innocent ‘married couple.’”
The shooting immediately triggered protests given the prior shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. Press and politicians pounced on the story as an example of excessive force.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek held a press conference to express outrage over ICE being in the city. It did not seem to matter that the suspected Tren de Aragua gang associates were accused of trying to kill officers. Wilson declared that you simply cannot believe what ICE says in such incidents.
Kotek denounced the shooting as “instigated by the reckless agenda of the Trump administration.”
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., rushed out a comment on X, stating that “I’m monitoring the first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I’ll keep you updated, but Trump’s deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence–and must end.”
In his press conference, Chief Day admitted that the Portland Police Department hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection because it did not want to be accused of “historic injustice of victim blaming” by law enforcement.
Day then began to cry as he attempted to speak to the Hispanic community, declaring that “it saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger.”
Day’s admission seemed to be brushed aside by the media. There was little concern that a police chief admitted to withholding information that would have supported ICE and contradicted misleading accounts fueling the protests.
The fear of contributing to, or being accused of, the “historic injustice of victim blaming” should not be the basis for withholding clearly material information from the public as protests erupted around the city. Whatever the investigation will show on this shooting, the public should have been informed about what was known about the status and relevant record of the two individuals.
The advantage of fueling rage politics is that the facts can become immaterial. It did not appear to matter that these suspects were criminal aliens who may have been trying to kill ICE officers. Even admitting those facts seems too much for the Chief of Police in having to apologize to the community. To quote Chief Day, “It saddens me.”
It really saddens me that government officials ignore their duties of office so that they can shred our state constitution, and federal constitutional rights.
I’m sure that Chief Day will be crying when ICE arrests the Somali illegal immigrants who ripped off the funds that were ment to feed poor children. When these poor Somali thieves are sent back to Somalia the tears will flow like the waters of Niagara Falls from the reddened eyes of the so good hearted Day.
The victims of these gang members should just lay down and take it. The guy just cemented his job for life. Virtue signal duly noted.
And … it saddens me that “Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., rushed out a comment on X” that is re-frames this issues as being “completely political” stating that “I’m monitoring the first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I’ll keep you updated, but Trump’s deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence–and must end. The Senator should get his facts straight before making politically driven statements.
Ron Wyden is a headline chaser. He always has been. His comments on this incident are an endorsement of the Biden crime family.
Wyden
He’s the guy with white foam at the corners of his mouth always right?
“it saddens me”
Justice is always found in the Truth
Injustice in lies.
Chief Days idiocy has contributed to violence and injustice.
While it is likely therwe would have been violent protests in Portland no matter what.
It si certain these were larger, and more violent because Day withheld the truth.
Because protestors were under the delusion that they were protesting an actual injustice rather than the attempt to arrest two Violent and dangerous criminals.
It is near certain that more people were violent, more people were arrested and more people now have driminal records because of Cheif Days
reluctance to tell the truth.
He made things worse, not better.
He made things worse for the very people he claims to have been trying not to offend.
Lies help no one.
Two successive DoJ administrations went after Portland police for supposedly violating the civil rights of violent protesters. First under Obama in 2011 and then again during the George Floyd violent riots. The city of Portland “reformed” the department and policing policies after being taken to the wood shed by the Democrat city council in order to make it more permissive and accepting of violent criminals that fall into at least one of the Democrats’ protected classes of Identity Politics voters.
There are roughly 900 police officers in the Portland Bureau Of Police. There is only one whose employment is that of a political appointee – the Chief. A chief of police who is appointed by the city mayor, as Day was by this mayor who became infamous for being gassed while participating in one of the George Floyd riots.
The remainder look on while their police chief orders them to do nothing when obstructed from doing the jobs they were hired to do. And worse, for years have watched their mayor telling them and all the Antifa/Black Liars & Marxists rioters that in the city of Portland, it is a civil right for violent protesters to attempt to use lethal force against peace officers in their city.
And this just might be why Portland is another Democrat controlled city that cannot find enough new applicants to hire, while at the same time officer retention is Delta Sierra among officers not calculating how many more years they have to put up with this to retirement, other than throwing away the years they have invested towards the pension for a career of service to Portland.
I would favor a penal colony in the newly acquired territory of Greenland. Primarily for deportation and criminals of the left wing persuasion, including their financiers.
The Hispanic community? It’s Diversitist (e.g. racist, sexist, ageist, etc) to treat people as politically congruent (“=”) blocs.
In Sunday’s breaking news: rioting and violence towards police enforcing long existing laws is accepted and justified as Democrat party policy. Oh, and water is still wet.
What percentage of these mobs and the politicians defending and allowing it are Republican voters?
Rhetorical question, of course. 2026 will be a repeat of that, just as 2025 was and 2024 and 2023 before that.
These is a feature of the DNC, not an infrequent anomoly.
How dare a person show humanity about a double murder. To MAGAs humanity is a grave sin.
+100
C’mon MAGAs, I can’t have these conversations with myself all day – get involved here you thankless morons.
Sure, I’ll help you fight with yourself. The two Portland illegal immigrants shot by police are NOT dead; there is no “double-murder;” one was shot in the arm, the other in the shoulder/chest, both are recovering. More double-lie than “double-murder.”
(ICE officers not local police)
No one said “local police” lying again.
ICE re LEOs – police.
What a loon, John, this particular Anonymous. Just give it up.
How dare illegal interlopers enter our country to conduct organized criminal activities against our citizens and then expect humanity.
Bravo!
What double murder? They were wounded were taken to the hospital. Portland City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney said as far as she knew they were still alive.
What humanity did you give to Laken Riley?
USF
Actually, was this ICE or Border Patrol agent shooting? I thought I read that as the driver was shot in the chest and the passenger was shot in the arm. Perhaps a thru and through. They should work on their aim, no mercy for the wicked.
To MAGA, entering our country is a privilege that illegal aliens do not enjoy!
Correct – I am not aware of a single country in the world that is not so.
You are not free to enter another country just because you want to.
Few possibly no countries in the world take in the number of legal immigrants as the US.
Only 100 or so people are allowed to immigrate to Japan each year.
Sweden took in 100,00 over the course of a few years and it nearly tore the country apart – now they have net NEGATIVE immigration.
They are deporting people they gave citizenship too.
Denmark is nearly identical.
Britian is in turmoil over abotu 10,000 illegal immigrants a year – that is merely a day or so of illegal immigration under Biden.
Ask native americans how well unchecked immigration worked out for them ?
Excellent comment, John.
That is correct. It is a privilege, not a right. And how far we have fallen when Americans wanting America to be great again are the villains. Well then, bring in more of them Venezuelan gang banging murderers.
Social justice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
#HateLovesAbortion
That is a silly comment. Arresting and/or deporting violent criminals shows humanity to citizens. If they resist, force is justified.
They are not citizens, they are illegal interlopers and citizens of another country. They were not invited and they are not guests, they are the same as a BE home invasion. The people ICE are looking for are CRIMINALS, rapists, pedophiles, murderers, drug traffickers, gang bangers, kidnappers… they are here to destroy our country not to better it. If you can’t see that, then join them and get killed or imprisoned.
“. . . double murder.”
I wish you were right. Unfortunately, the two gangsters were merely injured.
ATS – these two were not murdered. They were not even killed.
They were shot in an attempt to arrest them , they escaped, called 911, and were taken to the hospital.
Now the question iw will Portland turn them over to ICE for deportation,
Or will it sneak them out of the hospital so that a dangerous arrest will have to be repeated.
Nor is anyone celebrating the necessity of their shooting.
Humanity is not served by Lying.
Justice in not found in lies.
Double murder? Are we still talking about the criminal gang member illegal aliens shot and WOUNDED in Portland?
What “double murder”? Do you have any reading comprehension?
American culture has seemingly always romanticized some criminals. Whether it is John Brown, Jesse James, some Italian and Jewish mafia figures during Prohibition, and ’60s radicals like Billy Ayers and Angela Davis who irresponsible academic hiring committees decided would make excellent people to hire and shape the minds of young people.
I’ve never understood it.
But now the suicidal empathy for criminals extends to foreign gang members who illegally invaded the country to prey on Americans.
It’s insane.
And to the president.
Bill Ayers POS, Obama’s ghost writer of his fantasy memoir.
As a libertarian-leaning (nearly minarchist on some topics – I see no legitimate reason to entrust any government with power beyond that strictly and demonstrably necessary to safeguard its borders from foreign invasion and prevent its citizens from physically attacking one another) I frequently question the actions and motivations of the police. However, a sobbing top cop is not the answer to any of the problems involving government or law enforcement, only an idiot loser who should not have any governmental power at all to wield under any circumstances. And Governor Tina Kotek? Seriously, if your name can easily be lampooned as “Tina Tampon”, and your behavior fits that characterization, maybe you should think twice before running for political office…
Protecting private property should be added to your list.
Agreed. My posts tend to run long, I was trying to be succinct.
As a usurping immigrant yourself, immediately pay reparations for your forebears who stole property from its indigenous owners rather than popping off with the virulent puke of the thoroughly clueless in current times.
Do the 15-20 illegals that entered the US under Biden owe the rest of us Reparations ?
Your drowning in hypocracy.
How well did unchecked immigration work for native americans ?
Regardless we have Statutes of limitations for a reason.
Should we try to dole out reparations all the way back to Cain and Abel ?
So the Egyptions, syrians, greeks, romans, goths, arabs, chinese, mongols, japanese …..
all owe reparations to the people in the places that invaded ?
Speaking of hypocrisy, do you actually not see yours? Just the act of illegal doesn’t equate with stealing land and committing genocide as your forebears did.
My forebearers were Irish and arrived in the US in the 20th century – They were escaping British Tyranny in Ireland.
Regardless, as YOU note – open borders did not work out so well for “native americans”.
In fact where in the world at any time has it worked out ?
Nations have borders that they use FORCE to defend so that they are NOT victims of theft and genocide.
How is it hypocritical to say that The US should not allow the people of South and Central america to do to the US what european colonists did to the Indians ?
Seems to me the hypocracy is yours.
You rant about the disasterous impact on those who occupied this continent 500 years ago of unchecked immigration.
Yet you champion the same now.
To me it sounds like you do not care about immigration that what you really want is the genocidal destruction of the west
I wonder – is Portland Police Chief Bob Day a gelding?
Didn’t he run in the Freakness Stakes a few years back?
Tailgunner Turls confirms his support of instantaneous death penalty for suspected violations of immigration policy. And for strictly political reasons. He’s a modern day equivalent of a compliant lawyer in 1930’s Germany.
What death penalty? No one died in this incident.
Not for lack of intent but rather good emergency medicine, magat.
First the Two confirm to Portland PD they were tda. Next, both were violent criminals who committed crimes IN THE US.
Next when CBP – not ICE stopped them and attampted to arrest them – they used their vehicle to try to Ram a CBP agent who shot the driver
They were already wanted for a shooting in Portland, They were involved in drug dealing human traficking and prostitution.
Virtually everyone any police officer EVER arrests is “suspected” of violating the law – except the rare instances that the police are able to arrest someone WHILE committing the crime.
Nearly every arrest involves someone Suspected of violating the law.
These people were not violating policy.
They were violating immigration law, drug law, human traficking law, laws against asault, ……
If these two are deported rather than imprisoned they will be getting off easy.
Ice is removing violent gang members, child rapists, and murderers from the streets. Democrats are protesting, chanting, “All we are saying is give child rape a chance.”
OOOOOOOOOO nice one Oldman (-“
All the ranks of police in Minnesota are a disgrace to the uniform they wear. To stand back and not assist or offer perimeter protection to fellow officers who are effecting legal arrests is shameful. Where is the PBA and FOP, have you nothing to say? A Chief of Police in tears for criminals and the Philly Sheriff threatening law enforcement officers if they come to her jurisdiction? The Thin Blue Line is gone!
^^diesel powered idiocy^^
They are under orders. I would note that the ranks of MPD have been decimated since the prosecution of Chauvin.
Officers that could leave have left. They only have about 50% of the officers they had at the time of George Floyds arrest and they were short staffed then.
ICE is recruiting other LEOs, it is entirely possible that some ICE agents in Minneapolis are former MPD officers.
what you can confirm is ALL Democrats Hate America
Unforced embarrassment. Doesn’t inspire confidence in Democrat law enforcement.
The Portland Police Chief is breakin’ my heart…NOT! 🤣
Portland Portolet…
Fentanyl… get your fentanyl…2 bags for five…fentanyl, get uour fentanyl!
^^a cretin remains non compliant in protecting the world from his idiotic butt breath^^
^^spoken as you’re having sex with dogs^^
Diogenes,
The Democrat party is the party of lawlessness.
I wonder if the Portland police feel the embarrassment of having Day as their police chief.
Upstate, IDK about Portland, but Minneapolis police had this to say:
https://x.com/MarcTwinCities/status/2009400935987208585?s=20
Correction, it was the Minnesota FOP, but the point is that it was still a brave statement against Democrat anarchy.
The harm caused by partisan, politically-ideological MEDIA entities and hosts, in stoking and fomenting division among us by giving platform and priority to dissent and anti-government voices, -is incalculable.
lin, it isn’t the media! It is a corrupt Democrat Party…who gains wealth by making things worse!
Democrats love failed plantations…always have!
are you going to tell us that Georgie Stephanopolous, Kristen Welker, Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl are Republicans?
Guess he forgot those who immigrated legitimately innocently were trying to get away from the likes of TDA; the left is actually doing the dehumanizing with their race-baiting and ethnic homogenization, and no way is it an act of simple ignorant altruism on their part.
Every aspect of this stinks to high heaven, and the extent to which it has carried on unfettered is sheer madness.