Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.At a press conference on Tuesday, Bruley said he opposed abolishing ICE but disagreed with how...
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    5 days ago

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.

    And when they identify as a cop, ICE doesn’t verify and just walks away…

    “And after the officer became so concerned, they were forced to identify themselves as a Brooklyn Park police officer in hopes of slowing the incident and de-escalating the incident down.”

    “The agents then immediately left after hearing this, making no other comments, no other apologies, just got in their vehicles and left.”

    Bruley said the anecdote was not an isolated incident.

    • leftascenter@jlai.luEnglish
      67·
      5 days ago

      Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.

      Or: Off duty cops see dangerous fascists doing illegal stuff and do nothing.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      13·
      5 days ago

      Is everyone a cop on this blessed day? (Or some similar, not legally protected title, think security officer is enough?

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        If you want to be abusive toward your fellow citizens, there is no limit to the predatory gun-toting community for you. You have multiple options.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        You and I wouldn’t be able to use jargon or talk procedures. It would be immediately obvious we were faking. Come up on me and tell me you’re in IT, see how that goes. :)

        • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          These ice goons aren’t cops though. They’re just a bunch of mall Ninjas. You could probably just start giving them Startrek technobable and they wouldn’t know the difference.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          ICE recruiting is prioritizing law enforcement for field work right now, but they are also hiring plenty of back of the house personnel as well (desk work), and have been telling them that after more training there is good potential for them to get into the field, too.

          Remember “Alice’s Restaurant,” when the guy tried to avoid the draft by acting crazy?

          And I went up there, I said, “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”

        • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          I’m at least IT adjacent and have somewhat of a homelab, I feel I could pass for a few minutes longer than an average person.

          Cop jargon? I Fail.