Several hundred people gathered near portland’s Salmon Street Springs on Sunday afternoon,many carrying signs,as they listened to speakers condemning the killing of a U.S. citizen by immigration officials in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting by Border Patrol officers came just weeks after Renee Good was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the same city. Between those two killings, a Border Patrol agent shot and injured two people from Venezuela during an immigration stop in Portland.All three shootings have rekindled protests in Portland, which had been mostly quiet after President Donald Trump’s attempts to send National Guard troops to Portland lessened.
Sunday afternoon’s protest on the waterfront was energetic but peaceful,and it felt similar to the “No Kings” protests Portland saw in 2025. Speakers from unions and healthcare organizations spoke out against Pretti’s death before a crowd of around 300 marched through several blocks of downtown, across the Hawthorne
