"These officers' behavior has been violent enough that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently established a commission to look into charging federal agents in state court for their actions. So far, however, despite a growing list of violent and threatening acts by ICE and CBP, no local prosecutor in any city that ICE and CBP has "blitzed" has filed charges against any federal officers."
"On Wednesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old widowed mother of a now-orphaned 6-year-old child, whose car was blocking theirs. While the Department of Homeland Security quickly claimed the officer was acting in self-defense-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem hyperbolically said the officer was defending himself against "domestic terrorism"- cellphone videos taken by people on the scene tell a much different story."
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have been deployed with heavy arms into Democratic-leaning cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, engaging in actions characterized as harassment and intimidation. Illinois established a commission to consider state charges against federal agents after increasingly violent and threatening acts, yet no local prosecutor has filed charges. An ICE officer recently shot and killed Renee Nicole Good after officers approached her car; Department of Homeland Security officials claimed self-defense while bystander cellphone video and state and local leaders have called for full, independent investigations.
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