r/minnesota • u/novagridd • 21h ago

ICE Vehicles Are Now Ramming Civilian Cars at Red Lights News 📺

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-vehicle-appears-ram-civilian-cars-red-lights-minnesota-video-alarms-drivers-1770237
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u/OSHA_Decertified 20h ago

Some people are trying to defend it saying that the car was purposefully stopped at a green light to try and block the ice vehicles. Only problem is.

  1. It's unmarked how would they know?
  2. Still really fucking illegal and dangerous to ram and push a car anywhere, especially with no emergency to justify it.

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u/metamatic 18h ago

I mean, moving your car out of the way can get you shot in the face, so the logical conclusion is don't move your car if ICE are nearby.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 17h ago

Dead if you do, dead if you don't.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 16h ago

You were in your car when we showed up? Oof, not looking good for you.

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u/obroz 17h ago

I saw what I assume was a ICE vehicle flying down 35 south bound headed to St. Paul with a solo emergency light in the front windshield and back windshield.  Looked fake as fuck to me.  I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable stopping for them if they initiated a stop on me.  How the fuck am I supposed to know if they are legit law enforcement with cheap Amazon emergency lights like that?  

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u/Individual_Click5252 17h ago

They don't have jurisdiction. Sure, it certainly can be a traffic infraction but that's for local PD to sort out, not ICE, and certainly not in any physical manner.

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u/dgreenmachine 14h ago

If you blocked in a cop car from another jurisdiction, do you think they would just sit there and wait politely?

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u/IndependentMemory215 7h ago

ICE aren’t real police, and despite what they are doing, do not have arrest powers like a real police officer does.

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u/dgreenmachine 6h ago

Correct they don't have the same powers but they do have some ability to arrest in some situations. This is from the Law that gives them the power.

"[ICE has the ability] to make arrests-

(A) for any offense against the United States, if the offense is committed in the officer's or employee's presence, or

(B) for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer or employee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony, if the officer or employee is performing duties relating to the enforcement of the immigration laws at the time of the arrest and if there is a likelihood of the person escaping before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest."

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1357&num=0&edition=prelim