I want to know when our civilian law enforcement is going to start protecting us.

[CanonRay]

They are sworn to serve and protect the citizens of their jurisdiction, be it city, county or state. Yet ICE is running around kidnapping citizens off the streets, threatening, beating even shooting us day after day. This has got to be stopped. Charge them with assault, attempted murder, kidnapping...whatever fits. When they spend a few nights in Cook County jail, this might just end.

[Jack Valentino]

1. I AM WITH YOU!!!!! but catching them 'in the act' seems to be the problem so far....

Guess the local police need to start stalking ICE agents...

[CanonRay]

2. It's all on film for Pete's sake.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. There are many times over more phone cameras than police. . . . nt

[Jack Valentino]

4. ... but the ICE agents involved are usually masked and unidentified!

The police would have to know who to arrest, and for that it seems they would have to be on the scene when these crimes happen!

[CanonRay]

5. So get a court order forcing the supervisor to identify the perp.

Not to mention facial recognition is very advanced. Plus robberies are committed with masks all the time.

[Tumbulu]

6. This is what I want to know as well

But I guess we all deep down know that they are often cut from the same cloth. At lest this is what I must assume by the way that they are allowing this to go on.

[elleng]

7. They do, every day; tho not dramatically in view of us all.

(I suspect my son in law the deputy sheriff is watching Commanders vs Bears tonight, though! )

[CanonRay]

9. I have not seen or heard of a single arrest of an ICE agent in the whole country.

If I'm wrong, show me.

[ancianita]

15. State LEO's don't have jurisdiction to arrest federal law enforcers. That's just the law.

[at140]

18. Bingo

Federal LEO can not be arrested by local LEO while the federals are doing their job of arresting people who broke federal immigration laws.

[travelingthrulife]

25. Most of them did not violate immigration laws though. And crimes like that woman being yanked out of her car

by the ICE goons when she was sideswiped by those same goons. That is not part of their federal duties. It is assault.

[at140]

29. If one enters USA without valid visa

That is violation of existing law and are subject to deportation. My understanding is ICE is mainly going after individuals who have committed additional offenses. During their raids if they find individuals without valid visa, existing law allows them to arrest & deport them. The law needs to be changed. Lack of visa should not be deportable.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Correct - but let's put this one

In the 'When The Regime Falls' bucket.

Either local LEO arrest them or citizens do. If I were them - I'd prefer actually police officers in my Borough. They are nice. The folks in the chat? They are not.

[ancianita]

27. Sure, I'll go for that.

Local LEO's who live in their communities/counties have little incentive to cooperate with federal leo's from this administration, when they see the overall harm such cooperation does. That little bit can arguably do its part to contribute to 'regime fall.'

[Frasier Balzov]

8. The Chicago cop blog seems to indicate

that the cops support ICE and resent (a) city officials for opposing the roundup, and (b) their own commanders for following city policy.

[CanonRay]

10. I grew up in Chi so that's possible.

But the DA can independently review the evidence and bring charges. Then the cops have to make an arrest.

[Nictuku]

11. A little off-topic, but it relates (in my opinion)

Has anyone heard ANY lawmaker (Congress) - or even the President - talk about DOING SOMETHING about how we Americans are being SCAMMED, by International actors (they actually have call centers that do this in India that operate over night while America is awake. It is not just India, it is Pakistan and other countries, it is very wide-spread) to the tune of Tens of Billions a Year, stolen from mostly seniors? [please pardon the run-on sentence)

It is a Crime that Goes UN-punished. Grandpa reports it to his local police? They can't do anything because it is occurring in another country. If you report it to the (ex., Indian) local authorities? Same thing, and worse, they are known to be corrupt and taking bribes. (we are not far from that ourselves)

So it just keeps getting worse and worse. You have to practically wear a shield against scammers. Email, Texts, Phone Calls, even in snail mail. It is coming at us from EVERY angle.

Here are some suggestions, not just whining: We need to Educate our society, especially our Elders, and we need our Congress to do some Lawmaking, Put some protections out there against this assault. Another thing, more Cooperation with these other countries for Law Enforcement.

And not one Congress Critter that I have heard has talked about this.

/rant over. Thanks for listening. How this relates to current events: Real issues are not being dealt with while they all jack off to the ultra cruelty and racism.

[CanonRay]

12. Also, that Pastor who was shot in the head

happened in Broadview, not Chi. Why no charges there?

[Iggo]

13. It's not their job. Ask the Supremes.

[ancianita]

14. Don't hold your breath.

IL's governor has told state, county, and city law enforcement not to help ICE and to stand back. Why? So that there will be no mistake about the evidence that he's having collected on ICE. Police can't throw federal enforcers in jail. Even when and where the feds don't occupy a city, police and the courts have ruled that citizens can have no reasonable expectation that police are to protect them. Police are protectors of money and property first, humans second.

[JoseBalow]

16. Cops protect cops

It's not gonna happen.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Here's a thought...

Maybe they are the LEA's.

Maybe they do their cop jobs then change uniforms, put on their tough guy demeanors, and their disguises, gators, sunglasses, hats whatever and presto chango...their ICE!

TA DA!

No one is coming to save us. We are the ones that we've been looking for.

RESIST!! ✊️

[Liberal In Texas]

19. Right! And in the last few days I've seen several times they've done a hit-and-run on some

poor innocent citizens vehicle. In one they hit a woman's car and then jumped out and dragged her out of the car and kidnapped her!
claiming she hit them on purpose. Who in this country could expect to be abducted for a fender bender before Trump?

Some of the damage looked like it would be thousands to fix. Anybody else do this would get a visit from the cops and charged.

This brutal activity by their secret police force may be designed to invoke reprisals against them. If that starts happening, then you-know-who will have his excuse to invoke Martial Law.

[Martin Eden]

20. Me too

ICE thugs are violating laws that would result in charges against police officers.

[maxrandb]

21. I am normally an optimistic man, but I don't see how this ends without America getting bloody

And No! I am not "calling for violence"...it's just painfully obvious that a shit-ton of these ICE, Border Patrol, Homeland Security fucksticks, have been culled from the ranks of the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Jan 6 Seditionists, and a host of other cookie-cutter Reich Wing racist, fascist violent extremist groups.

At some point, you would think local law enforcement would at least ask for identification, badge number, jurisdiction, agency...etc.

Fuck! The majority are in unmarked cars with out of town plates, or in some cases, no plates.

The reason I think things get bloody is this.

Suppose Dems sweep the 2026 midterms and capture the White House in 2028. I have just one question:

Who is going to disarm all these asspickles running amok all over America?

Will it require military action?
Will local law enforcement do it?
The FBI?
Sane Americans?

The genie is out of the fucking bottle.

Someone explain to me how it's going to be "peacefully" put back in.

Maybe the Supreme Court has provided a road map.

The next president would be fully justified to fire all federal law enforcement officers, and dismiss military leadership in all branches down to the E5 level.

It would probably be easier to just blow the entire structure of law enforcement and the military and start over, than it will be to fix the shitshow we are witnessing now.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. They are hiring losers and cowards who have ZERO shot at ever having

anyone offer them a hiring bonus of any kind, let alone 50K. Cowards and losers, like all bullies, back down quickly once they are punched in the nose. After a handful of them are met with real consequences for their actions, the rest will lose their swag.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. They have no duty to do so, and so they won't. No one is coming to save you.

[MineralMan]

24. Unfortunately, the politics of local law enforcement personnel

is not conducive to being on the side of the Democratic Party. Not even close.

So, there's not a lot of pushing toward keeping the ICE cops under control. The locals are on the same side, generally.

[Klarkashton]

28. It's called a defacto police state.

They are all in it together.