The shooting has deepened rifts between state and federal officials over how and why the shootings occurred. Protests intensified in Minnesota following Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Minnesota and US officials offered starkly different accounts of the shooting, and state investigators complained they were shut out of the federal inquiry.

Then in Oregon a US Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man and a woman in Portland on Thursday afternoon. Again, local officials, who immediately called for calm, said they could not verify the federal government’s account of the incident. In both cases, Democratic mayors and governors demanded the Trump administration withdraw federal officers, who have been deployed largely to Democratic-led cities in moves approved of by many of the president’s supporters after Trump campaigned on a promise to deport undocumented immigrants.

Democrats and civil rights activists have decried the aggressive enforcement operations as an unnecessary provocation.

“When a president endorses tearing families apart and attempts to govern through fear and hate rather than shared values, you foster an environment of lawlessness and recklessness,” Oregon Governor, Tina Kotek said. In both the Minneapolis and Portland shootings, US officials contend they were part of a increasing trend of criminal suspects and anti-Trump activists using their cars as weapons, though video evidence has sometimes contradicted their claims.

–Reuters–