Federal agents shot two people in southeast Portland, officials say

Federal agents shot two people in southeast Portland on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Police responded to a report of gunshots at 2:18 p.m. Pacific Time and, according to a police press release, found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds after being told a man had been shot and was requesting help.

It was not clear what condition the two victims were in; Mayor Keith Wilson said they were "shot and injured by federal agents." Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Portland's City Council president, said during a council meeting that she believed the two people who had been shot were still alive.

City and state leaders urged calm as the investigation begins and demanded an end to immigration enforcement operations in Portland, citing the shootings and the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis a day earlier. Senator Jeff Merkley said in a statement, "Trump wants to generate riots.

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