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.

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    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.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      You’re obviously a far left radical! What radical ideas are you going to demand next? Due process and the rule of law? Preposterous!

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

      • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
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        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

      • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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        Were you under any illusion that when they said one they didn’t mean the other?

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          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.

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    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.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      See, that’s what got him caught.

      He showed some form of identification, even if fake. The real ICE would never do that.

      They may have done the other stuff but we probably wouldn’t know.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

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        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.

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        You’re already being kidnapped and potentially sent to an out of country prison with no hearing. There is no downside under these parameters.

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        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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    Wait, you mean criminals are impersonating the guys that look and act like criminals? How odd.

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      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.

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    “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.

  • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    Everyone should just dress up like ICE everywhere … you don’t have to do anything violent or illegal … just go about your day as an ICE agent.

    Going shopping, dress up like ICE … anyone asks, just say you’re ICE

    Going to the movies? dress up like ICE

    Going to visit grandma? dress up like ICE

    Going to a wedding? dress up like ICE with a hoodie, ball cap, sunglasses and mask

    Once everyone everywhere is ICE … ICE will be less likely to bother people

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      Once everyone everywhere is ICE … ICE will be less likely to bother people

      Yes, because if there’s one thing anonymous “law enforcement” groups hate, it’s having more plausible deniability and the ability to hide in a larger crowd before they snatch and grab.

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    How is this Possible? The Republicans RUNNING our Country have made SURE ICE is Well Uniformed, Legally Acting and ALWAYS Identifiable! And if NOT the Republicans running our Country have been SWIFT to Promote them!

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    authorities issue national warning

    Instead of just stopping the behavior that makes this even possible lol