Trump’s ICE agents caught on tape, exposing the ugly racism fueling their investigations
Under Donald Trump’s regime, since the beginning of last year, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been exercising extreme power over people residing in the United States.
Although their job is to crack down on undocumented immigrant populations, or as Trump and his minions like to call “illegal aliens”, they have also been targeting a lot of American people, and they are obviously not a huge fan of that and are expressing their grievances regarding the same.
In a video that is going viral on social media at present, including on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Chief Mark Bruley from Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis, can be seen complaining about the treatment of Americans at the hands of ICE. Highlighting how the agency’s officers are targeting Americans, asking them to prove their identities and sometimes harassing them, Bruley requests a call to action. He also notably states that his peers are being targeted by ICE when they are off duty, and that most of them are people of colour, underscoring ICE’s blatant racism when selecting people for interrogation. Bruley then proceeds to talk about an incident in which one of his fellow off-duty workers passed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and they “boxed her in” and “demanded her paperwork.” He mentions that the officer did not have her documents with her, as she was a U.S. citizen, and that, when she thought that something was off, she decided to bring out her phone and record the incident. However, he notes that the agents knocked it out of her hand. Bruley also mentions that when the agents learnt of the officer’s identity later, they did not say anything to her, let alone apologise, and simply left the place, hinting at their lack of empathy after causing massive distress over mistaken identity. Expressing concern over the frequency of such incidents, Bruley said:
I wish I could tell you that this was an isolated incident. In fact, many of the chiefs standing behind me have similar incidents with their off-duty officers. This isn’t just important because it happened to off-duty officers, but what it did do is we know that our officers know what the Constitution is, they know what right and wrong is, and they know when people are being targeted. And that’s what they were.”
Bruley also stressed the need for trust-building between law enforcers and the people, saying that it is currently in a “fragile” state.
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