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.
Since this looks like a war on democracy now, I suppose that must be a war crime?!
Conditions are now so bad, the methods used are not even allowed in war.
Considering USA is technically still a democracy, imagine how bad things will get when it’s not a democracy anymore, but MAGA has made USA a totalitarian country governed 100% for the rich, and traditional American freedoms are systematically taken away.
We’ve allowed the government to do way more to our citizens that the international community, including us, has agreed shouldn’t be allowed.
Tear Gas is a banned chemical weapon. There is a specific carve out in the ban allowing for domestic use. And that’s not the only one.
Tear gas is banned in war because it can be confused for more deadly gases which might lead to someone launching nerve agents or other chemicals in retaliation. It’s not really because it’s inhumane.