Things are getting rough out there…..
There have been other shooting situations in other cities in the last few months….
- Federal authorities are investigating an ICE shooting in Ontario, the second in a week following a similar incident in South Los Angeles.
- An officer fired defensive shots as a driver reversed his vehicle directly at ICE agents, though the driver was not the arrest target.
- The incidents reflect an escalating pattern of aggressive confrontations between federal immigration officers and suspects across California and other states in recent weeks.
Federal authorities are investigating a shooting involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Ontario, the second one in a little more than a week as enforcement operations unfold across the state.
ICE officers were conducting a vehicle stop around 6:30 a.m. at the 2800 block of Vineyard Ave in Ontario, according to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security. During the stop, an unknown person who was not the target pulled a vehicle in front of the officers, she said.
Officers ordered the driver to leave, McLaughlin said, but as the driver began to pull away “the car stopped and attempted to run officers over by reversing directly at them without stopping.”
On Wednesday, a man was hospitalized after a shooting in Phoenix involving an ICE agent. According to local media reports, ICE officers conducted a traffic stop, but the driver began speeding away and an officer in the vehicle’s path feared for his life and fired his weapon.
In September and October, there were two shootings, by ICE and Border Patrol, into vehicles in Chicago, one fatal. And in August, federal agents shot into a car in San Bernardino during an immigration stop….
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