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ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning

www.cnn.com ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN

Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.

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.
- Hey now, no one could've seen this coming. It's almost like going on the Internet and telling lies, the horror!
  But seriously, yeah if they even had a single gram of official procedure and not some slapstick renegade style means of operation, this would be easily bypassed. But I suppose the copycats help the dickheads in charge, so I suppose treat every interaction as a hostile impersonation.
  
  At this point, if "ICE" is trying to arrest you, you should fight back with life or death consequences. You should be fully of the belief that if you go quietly, if you allow them to take you, you WILL die.
  And that's not only true of the fake ICE impersonators. It's true of the real ICE too. They've been shipping people to countries they've never been, in places they don't speak the language, to camps where they're tortured for information that not only do they not have, they also can't understand the questions, because again, they don't speak the language.
  Someone explain to me how we're better than 1940s nazis at this point. I've never been patriotic, but at this point I can't even say we're above literal nazi tactics.
- You're obviously a far left radical! What radical ideas are you going to demand next? Due process and the rule of law? Preposterous!
- 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.
  
  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
  
  Were you under any illusion that when they said one they didn't mean the other?

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.
- 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.
- Ah, rape.
  The president is a rapist, so why not? It could get you a segment on Fox.
  
  The president is a rapist,
  And felon. This guy is going places!

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.
- Like Iranian gun teams. They'll be able to move around fully armed and in the open for a looooooooooong time thanks to ICE. America is so fucked.
- Correct. Cosplaying Gestapo thugs is not a crime.

I'm engaging, violently, with a gun, any masked man that molests me or my family. My wife is a legal, brown immigrant. I am a gun nut. I am practiced and I train.
This isn't bravado, it's the reality I live. I leave the front curtains open so I can see incoming threats. I close those curtains at night so they can't see me. I'm scared shitless.
Some of ya'll "guns BAD" liberals need to take a history class. I'll die with my boots on thank you very much.
- Gun owning dirty liberal here. I now carry due to my mixed family.
- I've been anti-gun my whole life and still am. But the reality of the current situation is I'm getting a gun.
  America isn't a civilized enough nation to move past firearms like other nations have done.

Who could have forseen this could happen?

Heres a crazy idea. make them wear uniforms with no masks and badges. Crazy I know.

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

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

"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.

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.

The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.
- No, the difference is the amount of backup they have
- I wouldn't be surprised if they deputised unpaid volunteers at this point.

The obvious answer is to beat the crap out of anyone who claims to be an ICE officer.
- Run them out of your community like they're fascists. Because they are.

To me it sounds more like the cops are impersonating civilians.

There's an extremely simple solution to this problem
- Yeah, shoot anyone in the face that tries to abduct you without proper identification.

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
- 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.

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!

Criminals are impersonating other criminals who are under the power of a criminal
Criminalception!!

authorities issue national warning
Instead of just stopping the behavior that makes this even possible lol

This article is from February, I'm sure there've been a bunch more since then.

Who knew sending unidentified masked domestic terrorists to abduct people off the street into unmarked vehicles could lead to problems?
Fascism, folks. Always stupid. Always dangerous.

The criminals are impersonating criminals.

You know, this wouldn’t be as much of an issue if they had to, I don’t know, IDENTIFY THEMSELVES.

As in the famous documentary Blazing Saddles

Guy on the left looks like a methhead.

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.

The literal only difference beetween these kids and ICE is that ICE gets paid.

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