#useofforce — Public Fediverse posts

The official, a unit chief who directly oversaw more than 100 employees who evaluated thousands of #ICE applicants, was so troubled by what he saw that he outlined these concerns not to his superiors, but in a formal #whistleblower complaint to the Office of #InspectorGeneral in the #DHS.

#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-whistleblower-complaint.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.Kf_q.RleXDEq3_hqW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Citing an “unprecedented lowering of standards,” the career #ICE ofcl said that “systemic breakdowns” had allowed applicants to receive job offers before they had passed basic fingerprint‼️, identity or credit checks in a preliminary vetting process. Political appointees had unjustly skirted background investigations & received #NationalSecurity eligibility.

#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #MafiaState #fascism #WhiteSupremacy

In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to #ICE issued a dire warning.

The #Trump admin, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the #law & fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency—& its law enforcement operations—to “grave national security risks.”

#immigration #Sturmabteilung #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy

#ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, #Whistleblower Says

An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.

#Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-national-security-risk-whistleblower.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.oxVd.ttgirG3H-EEE&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Update

An #ICE officer charged with #shooting a man & #lying about it during the #immigration crackdown in #Minneapolis was released from a #Texas jail Thursday, after a judge refused to order his return to #Minnesota.

Christian Castro was released at dawn from a detention center in Brownsville. He motioned his hand toward a few camera operators & a reporter crowding around him & quickly got into an SUV that drove off.

#law #Trump #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-texas-ice-shooting-christian-castro-extradition-d1299b21657fe35afae615386d40552d?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

I think it’s been said before /s, but #FuckTexas pardon my language—it’s just enough already; you eventually start to say it like it is…

A federal judge on Wednesday refused to order #Texas to #extradite an #ICE officer charged with #shooting a man & fully lying about it [there’s video] during the #Trump #immigration crackdown in #Minneapolis.

#law #immigration #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #Sturmabteilung
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-texas-ice-shooting-christian-castro-extradition-384843049feeba26fac6fc09412161ca?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link

#Minnesota AG Keith Ellison is asking a federal judge to bar the sheriff in Cameron County, #Texas, from releasing #ICE agent Christian Castro, & to order TX Gov #GregAbbott to sign his #extradition warrant so that MN officers can take custody.

MN officials have clashed with the #FederalGovernment over who has #jurisdiction to investigate & prosecute federal officers for on-duty conduct. Ellison is a Democrat & Abbott is a Republican & an ally of #Trump.

#law #immigration #UseOfForce #fascism

TYVM

#Minnesota attorney general sues #Texas Gov #GregAbbott to compel #extradition of #ICE agent for trial

MN’s AG sued the governor of TX Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an ICE agent charged with wounding a man & then #lying to justify the #shooting during the agency’s crackdown in #Minneapolis.

#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-texas-ice-shooting-christian-castro-461acb1a459bc0ecb41fef5f728df502?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

… “The concern here is that #ICE is going above & beyond to guarantee law enforcement does not have even the slightest risk of #liability for violating Americans’ rights while helping ICE arrest people,” said David Bier, director of #immigration studies at the Cato Institute, who has called on #Congress to make it easier to sue ICE agents for wrongdoing.

#Trump #law #Sturmabteilung #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy

#ICE is proposing to subsidize liability insurance for state & local officers who are “trained” & deputized to enforce federal #immigration laws, acc/to a planning document published Friday.

https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/75bbb5583c834eb4a87f66391efde1ff/view

…Under the plan, officers would purchase insurance covering up to $500k in personal #liability, which typically funds legal fees, settlements & judgments. Officers would be reimbursed up to $250 annually — roughly what the insurance is expected to cost.

#Trump #law #UseOfForce

Literally planning for #PoliceBrutality

#ICE is pitching a plan to help shield local #police officers who make #immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty #misconduct.

#Trump #law #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #RightToProtest #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/ice-liability-insurance-misconduct-civil-lawsuit-af330d49dcb9e40295c1fea4fc9ae6f6?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

After Molina, 36, posted video of the encounter Monday, it racked up tens of thousands of views & reignited scrutiny over the aggressiveness of the #Trump admin’s crackdown on “illegal” #immigration. The #gun in the agent’s hand can be seen raised & held at the center of Molina’s open driver’s side window.

“I don’t think I comprehended it in that moment, but looking back on it, it really felt like a #RenéeGood situation,” Molina told WaPo….

#ICE #Sturmabteilung #law #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce

#GiftArticle

The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
https://wapo.st/4g8Uw23

AP Exclusive: #ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction & de-escalation devices” for officers & agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by #DHS.

#law #Trump #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: New ‘anomaly detector’ flags outlier counties in police uses of lethal force. “A new data-driven dashboard produced by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign uses predictive modeling to pinpoint U.S. counties that have unusually high or low numbers of police use of lethal force incidents relative […]

#Trump murders again

#Immigrant Held at #Delaney Detention Center [ #ConcentrationCamp ] Has Died, Officials Say

The mayor of #Newark, #NewJersey identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The NJ center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its #inhumane treatment of detainees.

#law #immigration #DueProcess #ExtrajudicialKillings #murder #UseOfForce #CivilRights #HumanRights #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #Sturmabteilung
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/nyregion/ice-detention-center-death-delaney-hall-nj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2lA.W_xj.iS3G4L4Id25S&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Substance in #Houston #ICE #shooting van was NOT drugs, district attorney’s office says testing confirms

#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/us/houston-ice-shooting-substance-testing?cid=ios_app

#Police #shooting in #Madison, #Wisconsin being investigated as a #homicide, police chief says

The city’s independent watchdog accused police of obstructing her inquiry into the shooting. Madison’s police chief said he was “committed to working with the independent monitor.”

#law #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #murder #BLM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/07/23/police-monitor-madison-subpoena-department-evidence-shooting/

In case there was any doubt, #Trump is fully condoning the #ExtraJudicialKillings by #ICE.

Federal Agents Were Told #FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE “Confrontations”

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

#law #murder #Constitution #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Trump border czar, #TomHoman, has warned that there will be more “bloodshed” unless #Democrats “shut their mouths.”

Following the back-to-back fatal #shootings [ #murders ] of a Colombian native in Maine & a Mexican man in Houston by #ICE, the Trump admin has tried to shift the blame onto Democratic leaders who have been educating #immigrants on their #rights.

#law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #CivilRights #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tom-homan-ice-shootings-democrat-b3015843.html

#DavidBrouillette has a history of terrifying & #violent behavior, acc/to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking #women in his life over the years, & one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how #DHS has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out #Trump’s #immigration crackdown.

#law #ICE #Sturmabteilung #murder #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality

#ICE officer in #Maine #shooting has history of #violent behavior, family & records say

The ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army vet who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood & never should have been given a #badge & #gun to #patrol #US streets, several of his close relatives told AP.

#Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState
https://apnews.com/article/ice-david-brouillette-johan-guerrero-maine-shooting-dbc30d6d59e2a95fb470afc188e125c6

Trump said Wednesday that #ICE should continue traffic stops after 2 deadly #shootings in 1 week, contradicting new policy to halt them. To remove criminals from the country, “we CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump posted on social media.

#law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-enforcement-deaths-traffic-stops-3d614361d8354474bc4eb8e37ec26b28

HT @KimPerales

Alarms sound after 'horrifying' red-state police training exposed: 'More people will die'

by Alexander Willis
July 14, 2026 2:53PM ET

"Progressive activist and media figure #JustinKanew sounded an alarm Tuesday after a Democratic district attorney shared a 'horrifying' account of law enforcement training in the GOP-controlled state of #Tennessee.

"On Saturday, an op-ed written by Democratic District Attorney Steven Mulroy of Memphis was published in USA Today detailing his experience attending a 'weeklong use-of-force training for law enforcement by #ForceScience, a private company hired by many law enforcement agencies across the country.' "

Read more:
https://www.rawstory.com/police-2677222901/

#PoliceState #USPol #ACAB #CopCities #PrivateSecurity #UseOfForce #DeadlyForce #StateViolence

…At least 22 people have been fired on by agents involved in Trump’s #deportation crackdown since he took office for his second term in January 2025. Six people, including three #US #citizens, have been killed as a result of those #shootings, nearly all of which involved officers firing at people in vehicles.

[because they weren’t properly trained. And they believe they can kill with impunity.]

#Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #fascism

#ICE Ordered to Cease Most Vehicle Stops After 2 Killings in a Week

Agents fatally shot a man in #Houston, TX & another in coastal #Maine, both in their vehicles. The killings were just the latest in a string of ICE #shootings during #Trump’s second term.

#law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/us/ice-agents-traffic-stops.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Sen #AngusKing [an independent who caucuses with the Democrats] earlier told reporters, citing a separate conversation with #MarkwayneMullin, that the man who was fatally shot was the target of a warrant.

“Senator King continued to emphasize the need for a full, comprehensive, & transparent investigation,” his office said.

#Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy

Hennepin County attorney’s office charged him with 4 counts of second-degree #assault earlier this month.

“Today’s arrest is a critical step forward in our prosecution of Mr. Castro,” Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County attorney, said in a statement.

#law #Trump #immigration #Minnesota #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

Oh hell no

#Trump #DOJ Seeks to Drop Charges Against #Police Officers in #Shooting Death of #BreonnaTaylor

The #CivilRights charges against the 2 #Louisville, #Kentucky, police officers stemmed from their involvement in falsifying the no-knock search warrant that led to her fatal shooting.

#law #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #fraud #BLM
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/breonna-taylor-officer-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Accordingly, #dismissal with #prejudice will serve the interests of #justice,” wrote Rosen, who was nominated by #Trump to be #USattorney in #Minnesota.

Lyons said the agents could face termination & criminal prosecution [I won’t hold my breath].

The Jan 14 #shooting of Julio C. Sosa-Celis by an #ICE agent touched tense protests in #Minneapolis, where thousands of federal agents had been sent as part of the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown in the state.

#law #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung

Rosen wrote that “*newly* discovered #evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations” that #federal officials made in a charging #document & in courtroom #testimony.

“Accordingly, #dismissal with #prejudice will serve the interests of #justice,” wrote Rosen, who was nominated by #Trump to be #USattorney in #Minnesota.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung

Fleming represents the two men — a Venezuelan man & a Mexican man both in the country illegally — in the ongoing litigation that claims the #FederalGovernment continues to violate the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement agreement, which limits #ICE's ability to #arrest people without #warrants or #ProbableCause.

#Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #CBP #Sturmabteilung #USpol

The records confirm "the worst thoughts that we had about the operation," Mark Fleming, the associate director of federal litigation at the National Immigrant Justice Center, told NPR.

"This is the most brazen #unconstitutional #UseOfForce in an operation that I've seen in my entire career," he said. "They have no legal authority to be addressing purported #squatters; that is not within the purview of the #FederalGovernment."

#Trump #law #immigration #SocialCleansing #CivilRights #ICE #CBP

Quickly after the Sept 30, 2025, raid, #DHS published a dramatic video of the operation showing agents with their #guns drawn, some rappelling out of a #BlackHawkHelicopter onto the roof, & leading people [including children & people not dressed] away with their hands zip-tied.

On multiple occasions, the #Trump admin has said the building was frequented by members of #TrenDeAragua , a Venezuelan gang.

#law #immigration #SocialCleansing #CivilRights #HumanRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #USpol

Court records show #Chicago #immigration raid was about #squatters, not Venezuelan #gangs

Newly revealed arrest records show that a high-profile immigration raid on a South Shore Chicago apartment building last year that became a symbol of #Trump's harsh immigration tactics actually targeted squatters, not Venezuelan gang members.

#law #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #CivilRights #HumanRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #ICE #Sturmabteilung #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5703603/court-records-chicago-immigration-raid-was-about-squatters-not-venezuelan-gangs

As for the part of the #law that lets people sue #federal agents for violations of the #Illinois #Constitution, the 2 professors wrote, “that provision won’t stand” under the #SupremacyClause.

Still, Vikram Amar said, such #StateLaws can serve a larger purpose.

“In the spirit of #federalism. Not only can #states experiment in this way, but doing so would likely lead #Congress to address the problem,” he said.

#Trump #Constitution #StatesRights #CivilRights #autocracy #ICE #CBP #UseOfForce

The #Trump admin promptly sued #Illinois, saying the #law violated the #Constitution’s #SupremacyClause, which generally prohibits #states from enacting measures at odds with #FederalLaw. Whether to allow lawsuits against #federal agents for violating the federal #Constitution, the admin’s complaint said, “is a policy choice for Congress.” [ridiculous]

Professor Amar said aspects of the IL #StateLaW might be problematic, but that its core idea is sound.

#UseOfForce #StatesRights #CivilRights

The brothers & attorney representing the family of #ReneeGood, a 37-yr-old #Minnesota woman who was #murdered when an #ICE agent shot into her vehicle, are also expected to speak at the event, which is organized by Democratic lawmakers — Sen #RichardBlumenthal (CT) & Rep #RobertGarcia (CA).

#AlexPretti #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung

…#GeraldoLunasCampos, a 55-year-old Cuban man who was detained at #CampEastMontana in #ElPaso, #Texas died during an interaction with guards after being placed into solitary confinement, according to the government [so grain of salt]. A fellow detainee who said he witnessed the incident claimed Lunas Campos had been asking for his medication.

#Trump #law #immigration #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #ICE #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Autopsy report officially classifies #ICE detainee’s death as a #homicide

The report comes the same day a federal judge temporarily barred the #deportation [#CoverUp] of 2 fellow detainees who said 55-year-old #GeraldoLunasCampos was killed.

#Trump #law #immigration #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/21/ice-homicide-detainee-death-autopsy/

#BorderPatrol agents seen at a #protest near #Minneapolis, #Minnesota, appear to be a mix of the agency’s special response team and its Border Patrol Tactical Unit, also known as #BORTAC.

BORTAC agents are *generally* “trained” in crowd control & crowd dispersion, as well as other tactics to protect property. #PepperSpray & #TearGas canisters are among tools agents have used for crowd control.

#ReneeNicoleGood #Trump #law #murder #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality

US Dist Judge Georgia Alexakis heard testimony 2 eks ago about what happened after the Oct 4 incident in Brighton Park, which led to a standoff between protesters and federal agents who deployed #PepperSpray balls & #TearGas into the crowd.

Solicitor General John Sauer has also pointed to it while arguing #SCOTUS should let #Trump deploy #NationalGuard troops to #Chicago [these Trump attys🙄].

#law #immigration #judiciary #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Tyranny #ICE #CBP

Last week, federal #immigration agents targeted #Evanston, #Illinois, a northern #Chicago suburb that is home to #Northwestern, in a sweep that included a raid of a #retirement community. On Oct 31, 3 US #citizens who were watching a woman's violent arrest were shoved into an agent's car & driven around for hours before they were released at an FBI field office without charges, acc/to a court filing in a federal case brought by journalists & protesters against agents' #UseOfForce.

#law