Authorities in at least three states have arrested individuals allegedly impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at a time when real ICE agents have ramped up immigration enforcement efforts under the Trump administration, adding to existing fears of law enforcement among migrant communities.
You know what I bet would help? If actual ICE agents showed their faces and IDs and had warrants instead of just jumping out of a rental F150 in masks and tactical paintball gear and grabbing people’s babies and punching old people. Just a thought.
Hey now, no one could’ve seen this coming. It’s almost like going on the Internet and telling lies, the horror!
But seriously, yeah if they even had a single gram of official procedure and not some slapstick renegade style means of operation, this would be easily bypassed. But I suppose the copycats help the dickheads in charge, so I suppose treat every interaction as a hostile impersonation.
At this point, if “ICE” is trying to arrest you, you should fight back with life or death consequences. You should be fully of the belief that if you go quietly, if you allow them to take you, you WILL die.
And that’s not only true of the fake ICE impersonators. It’s true of the real ICE too. They’ve been shipping people to countries they’ve never been, in places they don’t speak the language, to camps where they’re tortured for information that not only do they not have, they also can’t understand the questions, because again, they don’t speak the language.
Someone explain to me how we’re better than 1940s nazis at this point. I’ve never been patriotic, but at this point I can’t even say we’re above literal nazi tactics.
Considering the average American, I’m actually shocked there haven’t been more shoot-outs*. What’s the point of everyone being strapped if you’re just going to let yourself be yoinked off the street?
*Not super keen on guns but, like, this is the reason (we) Americans profess to be armed, right?
And if they only went after violent criminals in their territory, instead of being such cowards they’d rather grab law-abiding people at hospitals and schools and churches.
Were you under any illusion that when they said one they didn’t mean the other?
Meanwhile, in Raleigh, North Carolina, Carl Thomas Bennett was arrested for allegedly impersonating an ICE officer and sexual assaulting a woman at a Motel 6 threatening to deport her if she didn’t comply, according to CNN affiliate WRAL.
Police reports indicated that Bennett, 37, “threatened to deport the victim if she did not have sex with him,” and “displayed a business card with a badge on it,” according to WRAL.
Ah, rape.
Ah, rape.
The president is a rapist, so why not? It could get you a segment on Fox.
You can’t impersonate an officer when officers are doing everything in their power to not be recognized as officers. No face, name tag, department, badge, uniform, warrant, marked government vehicle, standard issue side arm, etc. If no one is a cop then everyone can pretend to be a cop.
Who could have forseen this could happen?
I’m engaging, violently, with a gun, any masked man that molests me or my family. My wife is a legal, brown immigrant. I am a gun nut. I am practiced and I train.
This isn’t bravado, it’s the reality I live. I leave the front curtains open so I can see incoming threats. I close those curtains at night so they can’t see me. I’m scared shitless.
Some of ya’ll “guns BAD” liberals need to take a history class. I’ll die with my boots on thank you very much.
