“We’re in uncharted territory, but we're going to treat it like any other crime that happened in the City of Hartford,” Mayor Arunan Arulampalam said.
    • Lasherz@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Especially if they’re actually trying to run you over and not pointing the tires perpendicular to you, or at least you’d think.

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “We will be investigating what appears to be a hit-and-run incident by what we believe to be a federal employee , as we would any other hit-and-run,” he said. “We will investigate what appears to be assault two by an unknown individual with pepper spray being used on attendees of the vigil last night, as we would any other unlawful use of pepper spray in a public space here in Hartford.”

    So they’re not sure if was an ICE vehicle or not… oh, wait.

    An spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that the group of protesters, which they called “a mob of radical agitators,” attempted to obstruct federal law enforcement officers and broke a vehicle window.

    “Make no mistake – obstructing federal law enforcement officers during the performance of their duties is not only dangerous but also illegal,” the spokesperson said.

    No need for belief, mayor, when ICE has admitted that it was their employees and vehicle involved in the crime. Now demand that the spokesman provide the identity of the driver as well as the identity of the one who deployed the pepper spray. If they fail to cooperate, demand that they provide the name of their boss and anyone else who would know. Then you need to start charging these ICE spokespeople and bosses their bosses with obstruction of justice.