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🚨BREAKING: DHS is trying to argue that the ICE agent, who drove illegally down the shoulder of a highway and pointing a gun at innocent U.S. citizens, was just “performing his official duties.”
And that prosecuting him is “nothing more than a political stunt.”
According to prosecutors, this wasn’t some active takedown, or dangerous suspect situation.
It was rush hour traffic.
The agent allegedly chose to drive down the highway shoulder to get around it, and when a civilian vehicle got in his way… he pointed a GUN at the people inside.
And DHS’s response is… you can’t prosecute him because he’s an ICE agent, and he was doing his job.
So now we’re supposed to believe that illegally using the shoulder of a state highway, and pointing a GUN at random U.S. citizens, is just… a standard ICE procedure?
The law is actually pretty clear on when officers can point a weapon at someone… it’s tied to an objectively reasonable belief of an immediate threat, or the need to prevent serious harm during a lawful enforcement action.
It is not a free for all to use force because someone is in your way on the highway.
And that’s exactly why DHS defending this is so dangerous.
If “official duties” becomes a blanket excuse for this kind of behavior, then the standard shifts from what the law allows… to whatever a federal agent says was necessary in the moment.
And once you do that, accountability disappears… and so do your rights.
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