Democrat Senator Wants ICE Agents To Choose Between Getting Run Over And Going To Jail: Sen. Padilla Suggested That Officers Whose Lives are Put at Risk by Agitators or Illegals Should Automatically be Fired for Acting in Self-Defense

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Democrat Senator Wants ICE Agents To Choose Between Getting Run Over And Going To Jail:

Sen. Padilla suggested that officers whose lives are put at risk by agitators or illegals should automatically be fired for acting in self-defense.

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., on Wednesday called for the firing and prosecution of federal immigration enforcement officers who defend themselves against people who weaponize their cars and end up dead because of it.

During the confirmation hearing of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has been nominated for the permanent position, Padilla opened by asking about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Texas and Maine shooting two illegal aliens. The illegal aliens allegedly refused to comply with the officers, instead dangerously fleeing the scene in one case, and attempting to ram into officers in the other, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Padilla initially asked whether Blanche thought state and local law enforcement should be involved in independent investigations regarding federal officer-involved shootings, and then suggested that the Department of Justice should have a role in investigating such cases at DHS. But he quickly pivoted to suggesting that officers whose lives are put at risk by agitators or illegals should automatically be fired for acting in self-defense.

“Here’s the bottom line: Why I’m asking these two questions, because in prior incidents — you referenced Minnesota earlier in your testimony — Alex Pretti and Renee Good were also fatally shot, and as far as we can tell, it’s been months and months,” Padilla said. “There’s been no justice in these cases. As far as I can tell, those officers were not fired, they have not faced any charges. So it does undermine any confidence anybody should have in the Department of Homeland Security’s ability, through the Inspector General or otherwise, to investigate its own.”

Blanche responded, stating, “I very much disagree with the statement you just made. The mere passage of time between January and today doesn’t mean there’s no justice.”

In all four cases, available evidence points to each person refusing to comply with lawful orders of federal agents, and in every case making extremely dangerous decisions that appear to span from the direct targeting of police officers with their vehicles, to putting them and others at risk by fleeing, or in Pretti’s case, obstructing law enforcement officers and then resisting.

As DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated Wednesday, “As our officers carry out operations to enforce our nations laws, they are facing a more than 1,300% increase in vehicle attacks.”

Pretti’s case is the only one that did not involve alleged weaponization or reckless use of a vehicle, and it included a confusing and chaotic timeline of events involving his carrying of a gun and an officer apparently believing he was reaching for it while another officer was removing it from his person.

Even so, that does not automatically condemn the officer who shot him, as Padilla would apparently have it, or even suggest that the officer will be found to have improperly discharged his weapon, given the circumstances of Pretti’s confrontation. --->READ MORE HERE

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