I’m trying to confirm whether or not there was an ICE arrest in my community. I think it is, but someone else online said that they had it confirmed that the agents were not from ICE, but they were unable to provide any hard evidence to corroborate that
I’m having trouble finding videos, but are they required to wear vests identifying themselves as ICE, or can they vary?
I think technically it does. I wish I could remember who it was, but there was a case in the 60s or 70s where a Black Panther member shot a plain-clothes police officer that was attacking his comrade. The shooter got off without any charges because from his perspective he thought he was stopping an attack versus hindering an arrest. I can’t imagine any armed black person not getting riddled with bullets or charged with attempted murder if they did the same thing today.
At that time, if I remember correctly, Assault on a Police Officer was a misdemeanor but is now a felony so it’s also costlier to participate in that. They changed it because there were so many people fighting back then.
So, try doing that now and you’ll get a felony if not terrorism charges. They learned their lesson from the Panthers, unfortunately.
There was a guy in Texas who killed a cop in a no knock raid, iirc, and got off free eventually.
I remember a case of plainclothes ICE (I believe) that were searching for some undocumented person and approached a mom with her kids in her car. She tried to drive away and they pulled out their guns so she allegedly tried to run them over but they shot her dead in front of her kids
Turned out that they weren’t even looking for her. Just killed some random brown mom. Oops.
That’s fucking horrific
Somehow found the article and, damn time flies, it happened in 2012. I thought it was a few years ago under Biden, but maybe it was another similar case.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plain-clothes-border-patrol-agent-kills-32-year-old-mother/