• Shakedown Artists Now Impersonating ICE Agents

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 7 20:28:23 2025
    XPost: alt.politics, alt.survival, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/ice-impersonations-spike-immigration-crackdown/

    Impersonators pretending to be immigration agents are spreading
    fear among migrants already uncertain about their future in the
    country.

    Cases of illegitimate Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
    have been reported across the country. Some have been charged
    with federal criminal crimes of impersonating a federal law
    enforcement agent.

    In Florida, a 23-year-old man was recently arrested and charged
    when police said that he claimed to be an ICE agent and threatened
    to deport two men after he pulled their vehicle over and demanded
    their identification.

    A 33-year-old South Carolina man was arrested in January after
    he was accused of stopping a vehicle with Latino men inside and
    claimed to be with ICE. Video of the encounter involving Sean
    Michael Johnson allegedly claiming that Latinos were “going
    back to Mexico” went viral.

    Johnson was charged with three counts of kidnapping, impersonating
    a law enforcement officer, petty larceny and assault and battery.

    . . .

    Figures ... someone ALWAYS takes advantage.

    Of course there were plenty of faux-police before,
    typically home-invasion gangs. Easy enough to buy,
    or fabricate, what looks at a glance to be legit
    cop gear.

    Immigrants, legal and esp illegal, are easier to
    intimidate and fool. They generally WON'T dial
    911 to fetch more, real, cops. Robberies, beatings,
    murders and rapes have been committed by faux-cops.
    It's not JUST 'immigrants', but older people who
    tend to be credulous ... if they kinda sorta SEEM
    like cops then they MUST be, right ?

    Clue ... if you don't see a full-out fancy police
    cruiser in yer driveway - CALL 911 INSTANTLY and
    LEAVE THE LINE OPEN.

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