FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves (Wired)

[superpatriotman]

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct. “Ensure law enforcement personnel adequality [sic] identify themselves during operations and cooperate with individuals who request further verification,” it says.

“The recent increased presence of armed, masked federal officers completely disrupts and erodes public trust in law enforcement,” says Alycia Castillo of the Texas Civil Rights Project. “Further, the increase in local cooperation with federal authorities through 287(g) agreements has led to a chilling effect on local law enforcement for communities,” she says, referring to a program that deputizes local police to act as immigration agents.

“When masked federal agents conceal their identity and authority as a practice, anyone can don a mask and a gun and not be expected or required to verify their authority,” she adds.

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/]

[enough]

1. Time will tell.

[Dave Bowman]

2. No, really? This was totally predictable, incompetent fools.

[slightlv]

19. This has been happening from the very start of masked,

unidentified men kidnapping people off the street. And I don't even mean this year... I mean back in trump's first term. We should have shut it down then... oh, to have a democratic party who is as in-your-face assertive as members of the opposition. I think I'm just getting really tired at every single one of us finding ourselves on the short end of a very long taser...

[UpInArms]

3. Who would have thought that this would happen?

Crickets

[sakabatou]

4. So... what about ACTUAL ICE agents doing illegal shit?

[erronis]

13. Since most of them are probably Jan6ers, failed LEO, thugs, lowlife, etc.

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I can't imagine most of the rank (and I mean rank) and file in the ICE troops aren't bully boys anyway.

Herr Hitler is smiling from his underworld crypt.

[Marcuse]

18. By Executive Order: The Proud Boys Employment Act.

[bluestarone]

21. I'm thinking THIS is their way to coverup and blame someone else.

I say BULLSHIT, it's ICE doing this shit, and ONLY ICE!!

[malaise]

5. Duh!

That is all

[BOSSHOG]

6. Criminals posing as criminals?

And then there’s the felon in the White House.

[odins folly]

7. It would be interesting to know

What states this has happened in, I have a suspicion but ….

[swong19104]

8. If anything, these ICE officers

should be the ones going after unidentified goons in masks, carrying weapons, and fully armored. These goons are a menace to the public as well as ICE officers. They’re the criminals ICE is supposed to defend the country from.

Of course ICE folks won’t go after them because:
1. Some of those goons are friends of ICE
2. Hey, those goons are ARMED!
3. Is that my partner or is that a fake ICE goon?

[orleans]

9. #3 made me chuckle. they are ALL such assholes! nt

[DFW]

10. ID themselves with WHAT?? Membership in Moronic Mercenaries International?

These clowns NEVER carry ID with them. If they did, they'd have to admit they had no legal right to be doing what they are doing.

And what's all this about "criminals posing as US immigration officers?" That description sounds like it fits 99% of the ICE guys that have been terrorizing our cities since Noem and Bondi sent them there.

Oh, and Pam, while I'm on the subject, how many of those monsters you were telling us about did you end up deporting, anyway? And to where? Don't tell me it was to Monstrovia, the capital of Liberia. Only Trump is allowed to say stupid stuff like that and get away with it.

[Picaro]

11. No shit Sherlock

Sometimes the masked bandits are just that.

[Warpy]

12. Oh, come off it. Most of them are

The face masks are a dead giveaway to the fact that they're not just doing something wrong, they know damned well it's wrong.

[kimbutgar]

14. Anyone can get an ICE outfit and cosplay and hurt and rape innocent people.

[BurnDoubt]

15. DUMB IDEAS BY DUMB PEOPLE...

This is a feature not a bug. The confusion is there to increase the TERROR. Next step: Martial Law because who can tell the bad guys from the good? Only the BEST people!

[ihaveaquestion]

16. I posted a suggestion to call local police when witnessing an apparent kidnapping by unidentified so-called LE

Many respondents didn't think police should be called and seemed afraid to do anything...

https://democraticunderground.com/100220765186

[IronLionZion]

17. If ICE agents won't show ID, assume they are criminals

[Marcuse]

20. By Executive Order: The Proud Boys Employment Act.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

22. What about

The actual ICE criminals?