Several community police chiefs from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area held a press conference together to discuss the increasing violence happening due to the ICEtapo invasion. Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley started his speech by tactfully pointing out that immigration enforcement is very important, but then got to the heart of the matter by pointing out that the ICEtapo troops are going about it all wrong:
Good morning, everyone. I'm Mark Rurley, Police Chief of City of Brooklyn Park. Behind me is a bunch of amazing police chiefs that are here in support of a very short but very important message that we want to share with you. What you won't hear from any of us today is rhetoric of abolish ICE or that there shouldn't be immigration enforcement. The truth is, immigration enforcement is necessary for our national security and for local security.
But how it's done is extremely important. In fact, we have a long history of working exceptionally well with our federal partners, including ICE agents, and we have seen the best of them perform their job extremely well in the past. With that said, recently, as the last two weeks, we as law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from U.S. citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being forced to demand paperwork to determine if they are here legally.
As this continued over the past two weeks, we began hearing from our police officers the same complaints that they had fallen victim to while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color who has had this happen to them. In Brooklyn Park, one particular officer that shared her story with me was stopped as she passed ICE going down the roadway. When they boxed her in, they demanded her paperwork, of which she's a U.S. citizen and clearly would not have any paperwork. When she became concerned about the rhetoric and the way she was being treated, she pulled out her phone. In an attempt to record the incident, the phone was knocked out of her hands, prevented her from recording it.
The officer had their guns drawn during this interaction. And after the officer became so concerned, they were forced to identify themselves as a Brooklyn Park police officer in hopes of slowing the incident and de-escalating the incident down. The agents then immediately left after hearing this, making no other comments, no other apologies, just got in their vehicles and left. 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 police 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. If it is happening to our officers, it pains me to think of how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day. It has to stop.
Part of the problem is, why are two or three thousand armed thugs in Minnesota?
It wasn't for any alleged fraud. For that, they would send accountants. It wasn't about immigration. Other presidents, including Obama, have deported more undocumented immigrants than President Pedo without sending in stormtroopers. If they were there for any sort of law enforcement, they would have been properly screened and trained and wouldn't be hiding their faces like the cowards that they are.
No, these goons are there just to cause domestic terror and give President Pedo a reason to call for martial law.
H/T Aaron Rupar for the video
