In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
  • Wahots@pawb.social
    5·
    2 months ago

    DHS has argued that agents still identify themselves while masked: “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists,” assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a September statement.

    If this were true, every judge, police officer and prosecutor would be dead. So no, they do not need to hide their faces. We all know why they are really hiding their faces.

    Release the files.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      2 months ago

      its because ice isnt targeting backwaters red areas, or states. MAGATS wouldve started shooting the moment they tried it, plus the gop would get upset over ice.

      • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
        31·
        2 months ago

        Americans are cowards. They’re more worried about losing their shitty jobs that they hate than they are about losing their country (and with it, their shitty jobs anyway). What’s confusing?

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    4·
    2 months ago

    Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,

    I’d need to see some exceptionally compelling evidence to be convinced they weren’t actually just ICE officers doing this.

    And later in the story…

    A senior ICE official tells WIRED: “Anyone caught impersonating themselves as a federal immigration agent will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Impersonating a federal immigration officer endangers public safety and erodes trust in law enforcement.”

    Only the bootliquors still have any trust remaining. Fucking trust. Lol

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I worry that they’ll claim wearing a mask is “impersonating a federal immigration officer”, especially when it’s bad enough the protests happen in earnest.

    • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      We’ve reached a point where lawlessness is being championed by both the law and criminals. Add to that we have elected a felon/pedophile president. What a time to be alive - sigh.

      • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        What gets me is that the bothsiders are still screeching about the situation they helped get everyone into.

        Nuance, reality and pragmatism be damned.

  • IndridCold@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 months ago

    I always thought protesters should wear jeans or tan tactical pants, boots, vest and plate ($35-50 from Amazon), a tacticool utility belt ($20-30 from amazon), helmet ($30 from amazon) a black Balaclava Ski Mask ($6), with sunglasses. On the right chest have a random ID number like “A462”. Slap an American flag patch (or a Police gang patch with the blue line).

    You could even throw in a functional gas mask for $50

    These ICE creeps don’t have a proper issued uniform. They bought their shit off amazon as well. I saw one dude who looked like he was wearing airsoft/paintball stuff.

    Can you imagine the confusion if everyone dressed in tacticool? Those untrained ICE idiots would be completely lost.

    • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      And do this on Halloween so they can’t arrest you for impersonating an officer either! #lifeHacks

      Sorry 🤭

      EDIT: Oh, wait… no, wait a minute… does the fact that they don’t have an officially issued uniform really mean that technically you could argue in court that you were not impersonating an officer? That. Is. Wildly stupid of them if true.

      • IndridCold@lemmy.ca
        0·
        2 months ago

        As long as you had nothing on your “uniform” that said Police or had a badge of any sort, they would be hard pressed to charge you with anything. If they nabbed you, and you weren’t black bagged to a blackzone and disappeared, you could always say you arrived to protest wearing a helmet, plate carrier, gas mask because of the documented law enforcement violence towards citizens. The pouches and utility belt could contain things like first aid supplies.

    • Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      I would, but with my luck that would be the day everyone decides enough is enough and they start beating the dogshit out of every ice agent lol

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yup.

      It would be VERY easy to infiltrate them while they’re out in the field. Just surround them with people looking just like them. They’d have no option but to retreat.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    2·
    2 months ago

    And agents who don’t do this, or do other illegal acts should be dealt with. Right? Hello?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Well, that’s all very cool.

    How about ICE stop wearing those goddamned masks so they can be identified?

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    hah they’re not going to ID themselves. these cowards can’t even do their “jobs” without covering their faces because they’re so scared.

    • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Well, they’re scared, but also the admin doesn’t want the identities to be revealed and shown that like 90% of ICE was probably recruited straight from known neo-nazi/white nationalist groups like the Proud Boys

  • drhodl@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    This just tells me that the “real” ICE agents, are doing criminal stuff and the FBI are just getting in front of that. What did they think would happen when you give the otherwise unemployable a badge and a gun, and empower them?

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, as everyone knew would happen when the cowards began hiding their identities and acting like a secret police on amfetamins.