Several air ambulance providers, airlifting patients to the Oregon Health & Science University on Saturday night, refused to land on the hospital’s rooftop following threats of laser attacks.

Anarchist Counter-Info Platform Called for Laser Tag Event

A furor was caused when a ‘laser-tag’ event was advertised online by Rose City Counter-Info, a self-described ‘anarchist counter-info platform.’ The call was made to shine lasers into the sky to disrupt federal helicopters flying over South Portland, the area where the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center is located.

The threats were met with safety concerns for airlifted patients by air ambulance vendors, who decided to reroute patients to local airports, from where they were transferred to ambulances for road transpo

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