Following a fatal shooting in the midst of violence, civil unrest, and demonstrations in Portland, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Sunday that sending federal agents is an option.
“When we talk about Portland, again they continue to refuse any type of federal assistance to bring that violent activity going on for ... a little over 90 days to a close,” he said, referring to Mayor Ted Wheeler and Gov. Kate Brown, both Democrats. Earlier this summer, when federal agents were deployed in the city to deal with agitators outside a federal courthouse, Wheeler and Brown alleged that President Donald Trump was acting in an unconstitutional manner.
