Maybe one of the statues looks like this?
You don’t support ICE or join the Republican party unless you’re afraid. Enjoy this collection of stories of chickenshit conservatives.
In the latest installment of “Immigration and Customs Enforcement thugs are big babies,” Oregon Public Radio obtained some incredibly distressing audio of an armed ICE agent—safely ensconced in an unmarked vehicle—who called 911 in October 2025 because he was being followed by a kid on an e-bike.
Yes, really.
But the problem here isn’t just that ICE agent Israel D. Hernandez was apparently so freaked out by a child biking near his car that he felt it warranted an emergency police response.
The real problem is that Hernandez told the 911 operator, “I need someone here now, or else I’m going to have to shoot this kid.”
Hernandez even pulled his service weapon out of the central console so he could be locked and loaded to protect himself from the child.
Dude, you know you could have just, like, sped up, right? You’re in a car, the kid is on a bike.
But according to Hernandez, the kid came up to his window and perhaps even broke one of the vehicle’s mirrors, so he told the dispatcher, “I’m going to have to act on this kid right now.”
I think it would be neat to have an e-bike, except that they’re only useable for about 6 months out of the year here, unless you like freezing your face off. The weather does not discourage Minnesotans in other ways, though.
In December, they begged Minneapolis police and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office to help them, claiming that “we only have a few officers but we have 60 to 70 agitators fighting them.”
Sounds serious!
Except what really happened was that people stood around yelling at ICE and throwing some snowballs while the agents violently detained a woman, dragging her on the icy ground on her stomach. Local law enforcement dutifully arrived, only to say that there were no “life-safety conditions” requiring a response and took off after 10 minutes.
None of this is surprising, since they’re led by a demented coward, a guy who never served and doesn’t respect the military, but was willing to send bombs and missiles against Iranian targets. And then wouldn’t even answer questions about his responsibilities!
President Trump did not answer shouted questions on Iran when he returned to Washington tonight. He did comment on new statues that have been installed in the Rose Garden, telling reporters, “Unbelievable statues.”
He’s always on the lookout for distractions from the hard questions.
I don’t care about his statues. I hope they’re knocked down and hauled to a garbage dump the instant he’s out of office, may that day arrive soon.
Most horrible thing about it is, they are a) not vetted at all – this would require actual testing and training, and drumming out anyone that failed, and b) not really being trained. Based on info from people that used to work for, and then quit, after all the stupid BS started happening, a huge amount of the training once given to ice was, well, iced. No training on use for force, constitution law, or much on law in general, nothing on de-escalation, proper firearm use and safety. On the contrary, there is even a “super secret, you can’t take notes on, copy, or even mention to anyone outside!”, memo, explicitly telling trainers to tell the new people hired on, “Break down doors, if you need to, or anything else you need to. You don’t need a judge to sign off on it, at all.” Of course, despite it already being leaked, they insist this memo doesn’t exist, and they have no record of it… Yeah, I am sure that will work real well, and won’t backfire on any of them, if they ever get dragged in to actual court, if/when the DOJ get fired by the next non-Trump/MAGA president.
And, its going to be the aftermath of WWII all over again. Defendant: “Oh, I didn’t do these things because I liked doing them, or wanted to, etc. No, they just didn’t tell me it was bad, and I was just following orders.” Courts: “We have no idea which ones are really guilty and which ones are telling the truth.”
@1: That, and (from what I’ve heard, apply appropriate amount of salt) they’ve got quotas, even bounties, for detaining people, and you’ve got the recipe for a gang of basically soccer hooligans to run amuck.
That overstates the case.
Some of them are killers.
So far in the last 13 months, 53 people have died in ICE/CBP custody.
Two civilians were murdered on video in Minneapolis.
One civilian, a blind old Burmese refugee was murdered in Buffalo, NY by being left out in the cold.
An unknown number of deportees have probably died after being dumped in foreign countries they had no ties to or knowledge of. No one is keeping track of these and no one in the US government cares.
Some or likely most of those people who died in ICE custody were murdered by the guards. We know in some cases that this was definitely the case.
Last I heard, killing people in the USA was a crime in almost all circumstances.
No statute of limitations for murder.
These thugs should eventually be arrested and tried for murder, starting with the ones with multiple videos of them shooting unarmed civilians in Minneapolis.
And ending in Nuremberg type trials for the heads of the organizations responsible, i.e. DHS, ICE, CBP, etc..
“Local law enforcement dutifully arrived, only to say that there were no “life-safety conditions” requiring a response and took off after 10 minutes”
A woman getting dragged face down through the snow by armed thugs sounds pretty life threatening to me.
“And, its going to be the aftermath of WWII all over again. Defendant: “Oh, I didn’t do these things because I liked doing them, or wanted to, etc. No, they just didn’t tell me it was bad, and I was just following orders.” Courts: “We have no idea which ones are really guilty and which ones are telling the truth.”
Jury: “Lock them up in Guantanamo anyway.”
There are still WWII vets around. That means there are still Nazi concentration camp guards etc around. That means Mossad is still chasing them, more than 80 years later. How do current ICE et al personnel not know this? How do they further more not realize that the evidence we have of their wrong doing is of a WAY higher standard than what was used to punish the Nazis? Wildly, how do Israeli soldiers also not know this, tangentially and just btw, too. It could and should be a blood bath, probably literally given the US enthusiasm for capital punishment, for these folks when the good guys get back in charge. Poor, idealistic, ray of sunshine that I am but still: who would want to live for another 80 years or more with that kind of target on their back?
Home skoolin’.
I have this fantasy that after he’s out of office, they build the Donald J Trump Museum of Presidential Criminality and Incompetence, and fill it with his works, and those of other Republicans who paved the way for him.
It would also buy up confederate monuments from around the country to populate its Garden of Traitors exhibit.
Nah, we should just let trump be president for life — or king for life. He can decide which.
The solution is staring us in the face. We can give him his own (partially completed) palace —the White House— in this, his very own country.
Put a wall around the White House grounds, like there’s a wall around the Vatican, and make it a sovereign state, just like the Vatican. He can run his own currency supported by big beautiful tariffs on everything the outside feels like offering. And it will make everything on the inside great again while the rest of the world minds its own business and occasionally delivers sandwiches.
But he can never leave, and no staff can re-enter. He’s president for life, right?
When he dies the entire place can become a monument to human stupidity, and a lasting museum of human greed. The White House won’t be needed again.