Overview
- A U.S. district judge, Karin J. Immergut, temporarily barred use of Oregon-based Guard units in Portland until October 18, with a full hearing set for October 29.
- The Pentagon acknowledged relocating roughly 200 California National Guard troops to Portland; Oregon’s governor Tina Kotek said 101 had arrived and called the deployment unnecessary and uncommunicated, and Mayor Keith Wilson denounced it.
- California governor Gavin Newsom labeled the maneuver an abuse of power and vowed to sue, and Oregon attorney general Dan Rayfield said the states will seek to halt the deployment.
- The White House said President Trump ordered 300 Guard members to Chicago to protect federal personnel and property, a step Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker condemned after what he called a Pentagon ultimatum.
- The Department of Homeland Security reported that Border Patrol agents shot a woman during a Chicago-area protest involving vehicles blocking federal officers, adding that no officers were injured.