Boo Hoo!! 'Why are you shooting at me at my home?': Resident says peppe
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Nearly two weeks of protests and clashes between demonstrators and
federal officers outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) facility near Portland’s waterfront have left
some nearby residents feeling unsafe in their own homes.
Mindan Ocon, who lives in an apartment building next to the ICE
facility on Macadam Avenue, said the ongoing confrontations have
created safety concerns for her and her 3-year-old daughter.
“My anxiety is really bad. I can’t really sleep because I am
jumpy,” Ocon said.
Ocon recorded video Wednesday night of federal agents clashing with
protesters and said pepper balls hit her balcony during the
altercation.
“I’m at home. Why are you shooting at me at my home?” she said.
“What if my baby was on the balcony?”
Ocon added that even using the balcony during daytime has become
difficult due to smoke and the repeated use of tear gas.
“She can’t even do that because there is so much smoke residue that
if she runs out there barefoot, her feet are black by the time she
gets back in here,” Ocon said, referring to her daughter.
Multiple arrests occurred during Wednesday night’s demonstration,
including two people taken into custody by Portland Police. A
spokesperson for the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) confirmed
Thursday that its officers did not use force during the incident.
In a post on X, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated
there were a total of five individuals arrested that night.
Ocon said she’s hopeful the situation will improve soon, both in
her neighborhood and across the country.
“Sometimes, I wonder if the future is going to be better,” she
said. “It has to be better because my daughter can’t grow up in the
same stuff.”
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Ocon isn't alone. Residents who live near the ICE facility in
Portland's South Waterfront Portland say they've been dealing with
a difficult situation, particularly at the Gray's Landing apartment
building across the street from the ICE building, where some of the
senior residents have nowhere else to go.
Arrests continue outside the Portland ICE facility, including a man
for pointing a "powerful laser" at federal officers. Some of the
people who have been arrested have been federally charged with
assaulting a federal officer, while some have been accused of
setting a fire, assaulting a police officer and placing
obstructions around the building.
These protests and demonstrations come amid a torrent of arrests of
multiple residents and asylum seekers, with the most recent
involving plainclothes ICE agents detaining a man just after his
immigration in hearing in front of his lawyer and mother.
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