Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday.
The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the agency’s enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.
The suspension allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, according to a person who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations. Matthew Felling, a spokesperson for Maine Sen. Angus King, said the senator’s office was also told by the Department of Homeland Security that ICE was suspending vehicle stops.
Hundreds of people in Maine protested Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national.
DHS said Monday that an officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot and killed Durán Guerrero while officers were watching the home of someone they believed was in the U.S. illegally and facing a final order of removal from the country. It said in a post on X that when ICE tried to stop a car driven by someone who came from the home, the vehicle attempted to flee and the officer fired.
That was a shift from how King earlier described the encounter, when he said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the officer opened fire after the man tried to use his vehicle as a weapon. King said Mullin told him the officers were trying to serve an arrest warrant, but not for the man who was shot.
DHS, which oversees ICE, didn’t respond to an email seeking clarity on what led to the shooting.
The suspension allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant
Thiis is completely meaningless then, they’re just going to say “oh, that person we just killed matched the description of somebody we have a warrant for, guess we got the wrong person but they shouldn’t have resisted”
“They were coming right at us!”
While the car was driving away.
Or the person had a unicycle, and the cops were scared for their life.
Just thinin the numbers.
It’s an improvement over the administrative “warrants” they’ve been using so far.
In theory, yes, but this is ICE we’re talking about, and there’s nothing in their history to suggest they won’t just lie about having a warrant the next time they kill somebody. Like, we can’t even get anyone at ICE to go on the record and confirm this policy is even real yet, we just have a senator telling people that the ICE director told him this and a few anonymous and totally unaccountable ICE employees promising us things.
Deadly shootings
Funny way to spell murders
POLITICAL murders, done by and supported by THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT as a way to terrorize and remove dissent BY KILLING
They know how bad this one is. Didn’t even claim that he “tried to weaponize his vehicle.” It’s only going to look worse and worse as more evidence comes out.
They murdered a father in front of his 3 year old child.
They deserve nothing less than the same treatment.
Each and every one who was involved. But the entire system is designed from the ground up to ensure those responsible can never face consequences.
What is that picture?
a DRUNKEN magat yelling at an activist.
He just needs a fucking upper cut right on to his throat
just dangle a modelo or a budweiser in front of him, and he will be hypnotized.
Ikr I can smell his rancid MAGA breath through my screen.
I kinda want to poke the back of his throat with a stick or grab his tongue and pull or something.
you probably can light a fire from all the alcohol.
And now Trump has overruled the policy and said they should continue.
It’s funny that if you look at the picture above, it has zero “real” context clues. No signs, no name tages, no MAGA hats. But you can still instantly tell who the MAGA asshole in it is.
suspended except when they feel its needed. ugh.
Well, suspended except when it’s a criminal warrant. Which is how it always was
It’s good to repeat it: immigration is a civil matter. It’s a matter of paperwork. Do you know who goes after the murderers and rapists? The fucking police
Saw ICE making a vehicle stop <checks notes> yesterday.
That was different
November is coming and these dumb shits are waking up to reality.
Let’s see what bullshit is coming this Thursday… or whenever Mango Mussolini is supposed to do his address.
He will be taking over elections.
Oh, no doubt. Only question is what bullshit they’re gonna pull this time.
No he won’t.
I hope you are correct.
They are waking up to the reality that they can murder with impunity at the behest of their masters. None of them are facing any consequences for their murders, and they will continue with the murdering when the media focus has shifted elsewhere, just like it did the last time.
Nobody has forgotten ANYTHING. We are not in a position to do anything yet, so right now we are in collection mode. We are saving our ammo, keeping our powder dry, and making lists.
These ICE Apes will have their Nuremburg Trial, where they will claim they were only following orders. It won’t help them.
And MAGA will allow it because they’ll want to throw the low level losers under the bus, hoping that will soothe our bloodlust for larger prey.
It will not.
“Will someone have to die for things to change?!?”
Several people have died (at the hands of ICE) and nothing seems to have changed.
im not surprised the msms have all but dropped the ICE RAIDS, AND MURDERS, it was getting too much unwanted attention. the last time we heard it in significant abundance was jan-feb.
They stopped it so that they can send the people that did it to train more people on how to do it I bet.
