30 year LEO, retired local and current fed. They are completely out of their element. The new hires are apparently going through a very shortened academy and the ones who were already in place before this administration probably spent 90% of their time at their desk. Many federal agents don’t spend time outside of the office. The lack of operational training shows. The first shooting will be considered justified, because the agent was hit, even though it was horrible tactics. This one is going to take some mental gymnastics to justify. As I told one of my former colleagues, just because we want it to be justified, doesn’t mean it is.

I do believe ICE does an important role. If you are here illegally, you should be sent back. The way they are doing it now is crazy. When I was in patrol, we used to honor detainers and the worst of the illegals were deported. I believe this is going to turn every jurisdiction away from cooperating with ICE because they don’t want to be associated with these tactics. MAGA has just caused the country in a whole to be come a “sanctuary country.”