Federal Protective Service incident commander and five agency officers have claimed they violated their policy by firing pepper balls or using pepper spray against passive protesters outside Portland's immigration enforcement building. The officers, who were among dozens of federal officers called to protect the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office during months of protests against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, maintained they did nothing wrong despite being presented with the Federal Protective Service public order policy. They were never disciplined. Lawyers for three protesters and two freelance video journalists are seeking a court order restricting federal officers' use of tear gas, pepper spray, flash-bang grenades and other munitions at the ICE building. Former Customs and Border Protection commissioner and former Seattle police chief, Gil Kerlikowske, testified that the failure of an agency to discipline or hold officers accountable for violating written rules suggests an "unwritten policy" that allows improper, excessive use of force.