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Ariana Baio

Federal agents delayed and threatened to shoot an ambulance driver trying to take a protester from ICE facility: report

Federal agents blocked an ambulance from transporting an injured protester to the hospital for roughly 10 minutes, according to reports - (Getty Images)

First responders in Portland, Oregon, were reportedly delayed in transporting an injured protester from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to a nearby hospital because federal agents stood in front of an ambulance and refused to let it leave.

Confidential reports written by the two medical employees, obtained by Willamette Week, indicate that federal agents grew hostile towards the first responders after being informed that they could not ride in the ambulance because the patient was not under arrest.

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