Photo: Federal officers outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in South Portland. (John Rudoff/John Rudoff ©2025)
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
“I then placed the ambulance into park, took my foot off the brake, undid my seat belt and opened the driver’s side door. I looked up and suddenly the entire group of officers…were crowded around the open car door, some of them leaning forward towards me, inches from my face.”
An agent, the driver recalled, “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner and began viciously yelling in my face, stating, ‘DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU, I WILL ARREST YOU RIGHT NOW.’”
We really need some laws to make it illegal for police to wear camo and LARP as special forces, because that’s 100% what they’re doing
So far, the laws are all written to work the opposite way.
From a legal perspective, It would probably be easier to abolish ICE and DHS to reclaim those funds. And then use that as an example to abolish police which also buy military surplus and tanks just to use their budget up every year.
They’re more likely using asset forfeitures to fund those purchases.