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A medic, who did not wish to be identified out of fear of retaliation, said he was with a team of “loosely” organized medics who provide aid when “things get violent” with federal agents and/or police.

The medic, who has been with the group since 2020, said he helped about 10 people wash their eyes after tear gas was fired into the crowd.

The crowd began to thin over the past hour following the tear gas rounds, which sent dozens running from the area and down side streets as smoke filled the air. No injuries have been officially reported.

Department of Homeland Security agents reportedly began firing tear gas into the crowd, according to witnesses, as smoke filled the air around the Eugene Federal Building. About 250 people remained in the area.

After the flash bangs, protesters gathered at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Pearl Street. Depart of Homeland Security agents then began firing unknown projectiles into the crowd, causing people to run in multiple directions away from the scene.

Following a vigil held at the Eugene Federal Building at 5 p.m. that was attended by more than 250 people, attendees began banging on the glass windows on the south side of the building.

A recorded message played from the building warning protesters to vacate the area or risk detention or arrest. The recording was followed by approximately five flash-bang devices deployed to disperse attendees.

Around 3:30 p.m. around 25 federal agents detained another protester, tackling him to the ground on the western side of the federal building. An additional protester was detained near the south entrance.

After the man was detained, some of the crowd moved into the street. Following the detention, pepper spray was used to disperse the crowd. Officers then returned to the building with the detainee.

A witness told The Emerald that a woman was pepper sprayed in the face when officers came out to let a car into the gated parking lot.

Protestors are surrounding the building chanting “let them go.” The crowd size remains around 100 people.

Federal agents exited the Eugene Federal Building around 2:30 p.m. and deployed pepper-ball projectiles at a crowd of approximately 100 protesters outside the building. Around 25 officers armed with pepper ball guns and in full protective gear and gas masks could be seen in the streets tackling protesters.

At least two protesters were detained after being thrown to the ground on East 7th Avenue and Pearl Street during the scuffle and taken back inside the building.

The protest began as part of the weekly “Singing for Our Lives” anti-ICE protests that occurs outside the building every Tuesday but quickly escalated.

Anna Lardner, a protester detained by federal agents Tuesday afternoon and taken into the Eugene Federal Building, told The Daily Emerald that agents “threatened to tase” her and never read her Miranda rights.

“While they were dragging me into the building, they wrenched my shoulder, they were carrying me by my limbs, they twisted my hands in the handcuffs — super red and swollen right now. I have a bunch of scrapes and bruises all over,” Lardner said.

Lardner was eventually released after being held in a “tiny hallway,” she said.

Lardner said that while she was detained, officers told her she would be searched. When she asked to be searched by a female officer, agents allegedly responded, “We don’t have any females.”

“DHS wants us to be scared and go home,” Lardner said. “We are not going home. We are going to continue to exercise our First Amendment rights.”