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.
  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    126·
    7 days 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

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
        15·
        7 days ago

        In Cyberpunk, the NCPD is basically just another gang. More organized than the Valentinos or Tiger Claws, but pretty much the same by the end of the day.

        In real life though, ICE seems to be a lot like a gang too. Have they pivoted to drugs and violent extortion yet? You know, if you smuggle guns and slaves, you can make a lot of money?

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          17·
          7 days ago

          There’s no way ICE hasn’t been involved in illegal drug smuggling for decades. It doesn’t work without corrupt people in those kinds of positions. DEA and CBP as well.

  • IndridCold@lemmy.ca
    49·
    6 days 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.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      The JR “Bob” Dobbs mantra - “If you act like a dumb shit, they’ll treat you like an equal”.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          6 days ago

          Wow, I have not seen a church of the sub genius reference in almost 20 years.

          Well, that’s probably just part of the Pink Conspiracy. They’ve been stealing your slack.

          They just had a cool doc about them come out not that long ago. Sadly, the podcast/Hour of Slack has come to an end:

          https://archive.org/details/hourofslack

          The Hour of Slack was produced weekly since 1985 by REV. IVAN STANG (PO Box 807, Glen Rose, Texas, 76043, USA) – more years than Johnny Carson or David Letterman were on the air. The show was discontinued in June, 2022; host Rev. Stang simply got burned out after 37 years of weekly shows. His hearing loss wasn’t helping either.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 days 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.

    • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days 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
        4·
        6 days 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
      5·
      6 days 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

    • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      6 days ago

      Plausible deniability.

      Reports of a masked ICE Agent murdering an individual filming an ICE raid, then fleeing the scene. “That wasn’t an actual ICE agent. Don’t worry, it’s… ‘under investigation’ and we’ll never release any information about the incident ever again.”

  • drhodl@lemmy.world
    38·
    6 days 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?

  • Wahots@pawb.social
    14·
    5 days 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.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
    44·
    7 days 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
      8·
      6 days 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

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      6·
      6 days 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.