“Videos from targeted cities over the past few months have shown such reckless conduct by immigration agents that it understates it to call it bad policing. It’s just not policing at all. It occupies a new realm of use of force, with outside federal units detached from local communities and with tenuous cooperation from local law enforcement coming in to knock heads, often while masked and driving unmarked civilian vehicles. Incidents like the shooting in Minneapolis were not just foreseeable, but were foreseen and warned about, local officials angrily noted. Reckless conduct by immigration agents was already documented by a federal judge in Chicago, Chris Geidner reminds us. Two similar incidents occurred in Chicago involving vehicles, where the feds brought charges against the drivers, but the cases quickly fell apart and the charges were later dropped. Nationwide, it was the ninth ICE shooting since September.”
— ICE Shooting Forces Us to Confront the Reality of a Corrupted DOJ
