If the federal agents who arrested Columbia student Elaina Aghayeva passed themselves off as local police, city officials need to put a stop to that practice.
Impersonating local police is the one thing that ICE and the Border Patrol had not been doing — they were impersonating utility workers, kidnapping and murdering people, but never ever impersonating local police.
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Wow! Just the latest??? AMAZING!!!
Headline isn’t great, but they’ve started impersonating local police, which is something ICE has not done before. Locally, a big part of what rapid responders do is to verify that a local police action is not ICE or Border Patrol. If ICE is running around with fake local police badges, this becomes a lot harder.
Seems like actual local police would want to get this stopped fast, but they don’t seem to understand cause and effect.