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.’”
The ones I work on have cameras in the driving portion, facing forwards and back. They specifically do not record audio because that’s going to be a load of hipaa violations, but because they are monitoring a public street to the front, and can’t really see the patient area of the back (even with the little window there for the driver/back-fella to talk to each other, the camera is basically seeing just the captain’s seat), no one seems to care. So unless the dipshits are doing this while in front of the ambulance, it wouldn’t see anything.
According to the article, the dipshits were, in fact, doing this while in front of the ambulance.