Dems’ vilification of ICE: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Heated rhetoric earlier than and after the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
What occurred in Minneapolis was actually a disgrace (“Dems dig in as protests rage on,” Jan. 9).
The girl ought to have listened to the officers, left her car in park then acquired out of the car. By disobeying, she put everybody, together with herself, in peril.
As the disgraceful Democrats scream homicide, perhaps we must always look back and see what they stated about Ashli Babbitt being shot point-blank within the head with out warning on Jan. 6, 2021 — when she had no car or weapon.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
Mayor Jacob Frey’s vulgar ICE-bashing response to the unlucky taking pictures in Minneapolis epitomizes the continuing, unjustified demonization of ICE brokers all through the nation.
When political “leaders” vilify ICE officers, it lends to the condoning of unrelenting assaults on brokers all through the nation.
Denis David
East Rockaway
There are two clear realities that current themselves with relevance to this case: The first one is that there’s no doubt that when this poor, misguided girl stepped on the fuel to propel her SUV ahead, that ICE agent was proper in entrance of her car. The second is that Democrats don’t care concerning the details.
Rick Cabrera
Elmhurst
Throughout my years in law enforcement, lethal bodily power was a constant component of coaching. Officers needed to analyze a number of video angles of incidents and supply an knowledgeable perspective on what transpired.
It’s unhappy and troubling to witness elected officers, who lack any related coaching or expertise, confidently expressing misguided opinions on such occasions with out ready for particulars.
Their rhetoric additionally contributes to a hostile setting that incites violence towards law enforcement. If they search to grasp the circumstances surrounding an particular person’s death, they need to first replicate on their own function in fostering such a divisive ambiance.
Lou Walker
Cape Coral, Fla.
The Minnesota leaders’ anti-ICE rhetoric is clearly accountable for the taking pictures. I don’t perceive why there are no penalties for blue- state leaders who incite and encourage violence towards ICE officers.
The women and men of ICE are doing their jobs and making the United States a lot safer. They don’t should be demonized and attacked.
Dominica Urbani
Carthage
The taking pictures by an ICE agent in Minneapolis seems troublesome to justify.
From a layperson’s perspective, it’s laborious to see why deadly power was needed — although of course no outdoors observer can declare full data of all of the details.
What’s simpler to discern is the predictability of the political response. Certain politicians have emerged virtually immediately, performatively outraged as if relieved to have one other image onto which they’ll graft each long-standing grievance.
Whether this incident results in unrest on the scale of 2020 stays to be seen. The lingering query is whether or not Minneapolis authorities will repeat previous errors, permitting destruction within the identify of restraint, or whether or not they are going to lastly draw a clear line between protest and lawlessness.
Scott Thompson
Bloomington, Ind.
What occurred in Minneapolis is tragic. A lady misplaced her life, and that alone ought to power critical reflection.
I don’t blame the ICE brokers for attempting to guard themselves in a unstable scenario. These are federal brokers finishing up federal law.
If something, accountability lies with native and state officers who create the impression that going after federal brokers is suitable, whereas failing to take accountability or clearly warn towards bodily confrontation.
Shea Neuman
Brooklyn
This horrific incident — fostered by Democrats’ disgusting rhetoric towards ICE brokers — is simply one more reason that people on this nation ought to stand up for the rule of law as handed by Congress.
This girl’s death would have been averted if she had simply gotten out of the car when law-enforcement brokers requested her to.
Richard Ketay
Newark, NJ
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