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.
To me it sounds more like the cops are impersonating civilians.
Wait, you mean criminals are impersonating the guys that look and act like criminals? How odd.
Don’t people realize that ICE are the people with masks that don’t have to identify themselves or provide a reason why you should comply and that criminals are the people with masks that don’t have to identify themselves or provide a reason why you should comply? Come on, sheeple.
The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.
No, the difference is the amount of backup they have
I wouldn’t be surprised if they deputised unpaid volunteers at this point.
“Johnson was charged with three counts of kidnapping and one count each of impersonating a law enforcement officer, petty larceny, assault and battery, according to jail records.”
This is what cop behavior is legally described as when you aren’t a cop.
Who knew sending unidentified masked domestic terrorists to abduct people off the street into unmarked vehicles could lead to problems?
Fascism, folks. Always stupid. Always dangerous.
Fucking excellent.
Well, not the crime and the general scumbaggery, but the more this happens the more justified you’ll be gunning down a random person claiming to be law enforcement as they attempt to illegally detain people. Every time an ice agent dies an angel gets its wings - if it’s from a legally defensible bullet from a patriot they get to cum too.
Do your part assholes.
You know, this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if they had to, I don’t know, IDENTIFY THEMSELVES.
Heres a crazy idea. make them wear uniforms with no masks and badges. Crazy I know.
There’s an extremely simple solution to this problem
Yeah, shoot anyone in the face that tries to abduct you without proper identification.
The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.
Who could have forseen this could happen?
genuinely, if i was american, i’d make sure to get a license to carry just in case this ever happened to me. anyone not identifying themselves trying to stuff me in an umarked vehicle is a kidnapper and will be treated as such.
Yup. I’m shooting anyone in the face who tries to abduct me without properly identifying themselves. I’ll deal with the repercussions after I potentially save myself from being human trafficked or having my organs harvested.
The problem is you might not get the chance to make such a defense in a courtroom. If it is an actual ICE agent, they will just disappear you.
What if these fake ICE officers identified themselves as ICE though? At what point does your identification become truth? The official ICE gestapo already doesn’t have to fully identify themselves.
So you’ll be charged with resisting arrest and uttering threats. So even if you’re innocent of the initial immigration charges you still get a felony arrest.
actually, legally speaking you are 100% in the right for defending yourself from kidnappings. any officer is required by law to identify themselves, and seeing as they didnt, thats on them.
You’re already being kidnapped and potentially sent to an out of country prison with no hearing. There is no downside under these parameters.
They are sending people straight to off shore black sites. If you wanna go to El Salvador or Guantanamo Bay, be my guest, but i have no plan on being sent anywhere.
Whether you plan on it or not. It could happen for just being nearby.
Sure sounds like you are better off being strapped and putting up a fight then. It just takes a handful of ICE kidnappings ending in a gun fight before those pussies stop.
Hence: the gun
My point was you can’t win. They’ll fuck you either way
And their point is that if you fucked either way it doesn’t matter anymore what you do.
Well then I’m taking a few of them with me!
Fucking excellent.
Well, not the crime and the general scumbaggery, but the more this happens the more justified you’ll be gunning down a random person claiming to be law enforcement as they attempt to illegally detain people. Every time an ice agent dies an angel gets its wings - if it’s from a legally defensible bullet from a patriot they get to cum too.
Do your part assholes.
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.
You’re obviously a far left radical! What radical ideas are you going to demand next? Due process and the rule of law? Preposterous!
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?
Because that’s not the “average American”, thats that average Right Wing Nutjob, the type of person that supports what is happening and ICE isn’t going after.
My state allows open carry and permitless concealed carry.
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?
It came out of Trump’s mouth, ergo it was a lie.
And the masked gang conducting the abductions are obviously a pusillanimous pack of bullies.
Hey, be compassionate. You at least should understand that they need to show big and beautiful numbers to impress the genius man with strategic thinking. It’s hard to do if you come after the actual criminals
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.
Like Iranian gun teams. They’ll be able to move around fully armed and in the open for a looooooooooong time thanks to ICE. America is so fucked.
