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Portland police chief cries while admitting DHS was right about Tren de Aragua ties in CBP shooting
Fox News ^ | January 10, 2026 | Michael Dorgan

Posted on 01/10/2026 8:44:12 AM PST by willk

Portland Police Chief Bob Day wiped away tears Friday as he addressed new information showing that two illegal immigrants shot during a federal immigration enforcement encounter had ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).

Day confirmed a Department of Homeland Security statement identifying the two individuals — Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras — as Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens with suspected ties to TdA.

Both were shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent after Moncada, the driver of the vehicle, allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to run over agents, prompting an agent to fire in self-defense, according to DHS.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; derangedleftists; donutwatch; oregon; oregoncouple; police; portland

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This guy is the Chief of Police for God's Sake! Do they have something in the water in Portland? Something that makes men into woke snowflakes?
1 posted on 01/10/2026 8:44:12 AM PST by willk
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“Police Chief Bob Day wiped away tears”

You’re supposed to wait until you get, Bob.


2 posted on 01/10/2026 8:46:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: willk

The biggest win for the Party of Death Commie libs is when they trained MEN to cry about everything.


3 posted on 01/10/2026 8:46:46 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC far-left turd worlders have "ICE Watch". What happened to "FBI Watch" and "CIA Watch"?)
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To: willk

They used guns! Guns are forbidden in Portland!

They shot real people with guns! Nothing justifies shooting people with guns in Portland!

The agents were in Portland for God’s sake, not America!


4 posted on 01/10/2026 8:47:57 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: BenLurkin

There’s no crying in police work Bob.


5 posted on 01/10/2026 8:48:13 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: willk

The left is destroying law enforcement. Whether it is this guy, the leftist in Milwaukee, or that ghettopotamus “sheriff” chanting “Rene Goode.” There is no way you can say police in blue cities are impartial enforcers of the law. These agencies are no different than the weaponized three letter federal agencies and are a threat to the rule of law and freedom.


6 posted on 01/10/2026 8:48:54 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: willk

“Bob’s, your uncle”


7 posted on 01/10/2026 8:49:51 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: willk

Soy


8 posted on 01/10/2026 8:49:54 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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willk wrote: “This guy is the Chief of Police for God’s Sake! Do they have something in the water in Portland? Something that makes men into woke snowflakes?”

Not all the men in Portland are ‘woke snowflakes’.
All the men selected for managment by the woke snowflake leadership in Portland are ‘woke snowflakes’.


9 posted on 01/10/2026 8:49:55 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: willk

Reminds me of that Louisiana sherriff who was crying during Katrina.

I think he was eventually busted for corruption.


10 posted on 01/10/2026 8:50:02 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: willk

He’s just sad that the that the two miscreants were plugged by the Border Patrol were actually honest- to-goodness BAD PEOPLE, and not the wonderful saints that the Democrats think they are.


11 posted on 01/10/2026 8:50:10 AM PST by hoagy62 (Inter arma enim silent leges (In times of war, the law is silent))
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Day said he initially hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection, citing what he described as the "historic injustice of victim blaming" by law enforcement...

Egads. No wonder Portland is run by the street gangs.

12 posted on 01/10/2026 8:53:04 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Yogafist

Oh my Bob!


13 posted on 01/10/2026 8:53:54 AM PST by parmamenian (an)
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To: willk

He has to apologize for telling the truth, that these people are criminals committing war against the USA? And has to suggest that them being criminals doesn’t excuse the ICE officers shooting them when they try to kill the ICE officers?

This is so dang stupid! The people of Portland are such lemmings they don’t even know what a caricature of themselves they have become to the sane people of the world.

This is a spiritual, demonic, mass hypnosis situation. We have whole cities that are as “gone” from sound thinking as the Jim Jones folks in Guyana. I’m praying every day that God would intervene to save us from this mess we’ve created. I don’t know any human way we get out of this brainwashing (or brain dirtying, I should say).


14 posted on 01/10/2026 8:54:25 AM PST by butterdezillion
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"This information, in no way, is meant to disparage or to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday," the chief added.

"They are in custody of federal law enforcement, but they appear to be on the road to recovery, and I’m grateful for that," Day said.

-PJ

15 posted on 01/10/2026 8:55:17 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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"I want to speak for just a moment, specifically to my Latino community," Day said.

"It saddens me that we even have to qualify these remarks because I understand or at least have attempted to understand your voices, your concern, your fear, your anger," Day said, removing his glasses mid-sentence and wiping tears from his eyes.

"This information, in no way, is meant to disparage or to condone or support or agree with any of the actions that occurred yesterday," the chief added.

That DHS was correct is just a technicality ...

16 posted on 01/10/2026 8:55:38 AM PST by gloryblaze
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The real injustice, according to Portland leadership, is they had to begrudgingly hire a white male as police chief. They tried so hard to retain that useless black lesbian but the pay wasn’t good enough as other liberal s holes trip over themselves for the DEI hires. I love my mum and wish her much time on this mortal coil but the second she passes away I am out of this dump.


17 posted on 01/10/2026 8:56:35 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: parmamenian

funny

irreverent

but funny

good ads


18 posted on 01/10/2026 8:57:37 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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this dude crying out of sympathy for the two deceased scumbags


19 posted on 01/10/2026 8:58:04 AM PST by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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WTF? Is he wearing Warby Parker glasses too? Good Lord!


20 posted on 01/10/2026 8:58:31 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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