Portland Man Shot by Border Patrol Now Charged for... Getting Shot
According to Axios, Luis David Nino-Moncada, hospitalized for a gunshot wound from a federal agent, is now charged with "aggravated assault of a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon" and property damage. Meanwhile, his companion, Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, shot in the chest, was transported straight from her hospital bed to an ICE facility in Tacoma, facing illegal entry
charges. One might wonder how one 'assaults' an armed federal agent while being shot, or, for that matter, how a gunshot wound gets you a ticket to an ICE detention center straight from the ER. This isn't an isolated incident; it's a well-worn playbook for justifying federal overreach. Critics argue the Department of Homeland Security's immediate accusation of ties to a 'global terrorist
organization' (Tren de Aragua) smells suspiciously like post-facto justification. The narrative is always spun same way: agents were 'attempted to be run over,' despite witnesses describing agents cornering a truck. The only thing more dangerous than being shot by a federal agent, it seems, is surviving to tell about it. The audacity of charging victims for the 'crime' of being shot is truly a
masterclass in bureaucratic cruelty.