ICE agents can be arrested over unlawful actions, Chicago federal judge rules

Still are.

Sure, the ruling says they CAN be arrested for doing illegal things. But are they going to be? Cop sees ICE beating down a brown person. Is the cop going to run over and arrest them?

Or will they assist ICE?

I'm sorry, were ICE agents just entirely above the law before this ruling???

Police, by default, are thanks to Qualified Immunity. It takes a judge and a shit ton of evidence to waive that inherent protection. Even for situations where the officers were violating constitutional and statutory rights, and even someone with a severe mental handicap would know clearly that those actions were illegal.

Uhhh… those are called crimes.

Sort of. In most places, they will be the same, but in legal terms for law enforcement, "unlawful" really means that it isn't permitted by the law. The action might not be criminal, as in there is a law forbidding it. Again, in most places that means the actions are illegal, because of laws that criminalize the violation of a person's civil rights, but that's not always the case.

Supreme Court said Donald could not be arrested for committing crimes as president. I think we’re just a step away from them giving immunity to Donald’s personal police.

Crimes are one type of unlawful act.

Civil torts are the other.

Historically, Civil Rights Act lawsuits were some of the more potent tools against corrupt police. Obviously that's going to be different under Trump.

There's a difference between an action that is part of the penal code that includes specific punishments, and actions that a government agency/worker does not have authority to perform. Some of these overlap, but not all

Yeah they were, and its not a big Surprise since they were made to be over the law

https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/2025/explainer-can-states-prosecute-federal-officials/

Only in practice. Federal officers have always been able to be arrested and tried for state crimes if they are unreasonably outside the scope of their official duties.

Because police officers have qualified immunity.

This ruling only means something if SCOTUS upholds the arrest and conviction. It's an improvement, don't get me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.

Hell deputize every citizen (including membets of local PDs) to police ice- and effectively youve taken away their sovereign and qualified immunities.

Turf wars are a thing with law enforcement agencies.

After getting pepper sprayed by the ice gestapo they just might lol

It does, unfortunately.

"If any of you local or state law enforcement decide to grow a spine: the state courts have your back."

If the cops perform the job as is typical, they'll just yell "he's got a gun" and shoot them.

Trump administration expected to appeal the decision.

they said "can" not "will"

they won't do anything against ICE, because that will imply that they have to also go after cops when they break the law. and that's a no no for

It’s a badge of capitol safety.

We need militias to arrest the anti-constitition traitors who are sending them.

Arrest them on sight because they're imminently dangerous, organize the widely available evidence and bring charges after they've been secured in a cell

sadly it must, all us police are legally above the law already.

Bruh the police literally did show up in the end and it was a whole fuckin’ thing. It was livestreamed even, you can find video of it. Now, there was a problem with absolute fucking moron leading the Ottawa Police at the time but he was removed shortly afterward.

I’m not saying we gotta start trusting police, but they’ll take most any excuse to go handcuff someone and exert power. They’re kinky like that.

Cops are already held liable for crimes.

This is likely part of why they prioritize hiding their faces and other identifying information. Watch them struggling to arrest someone and they will let go of someone just to pull their masks back up. They are breaking a lot of laws, but if a court can't identify them, they can't be charged. Secret police above the law are a key part of a dictatorship.

I doubt any police are going to risk arresting them in the field anyway. Even if they could make the arrest without it dangerously escalating, Pam Bondi would gleefully call it treason or insurrection, and bring in an army.

Cops are explicitly motivated to keep other cops out of jail simply because it could happen to them too.

Or, you know, we could think ICE and murder are both bad

It's not like the goobers ice is deploying are well trained.

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