The Department of Homeland Security said the shooting was in self-defense when the driver of a vehicle that the agents had pulled over tried to run them over.
Can anyone confirm that it was actually CBP and not ICE? Kind of really matters in terms of the implications of the illegal goon squad tactics spreading.
That article only mentions CBP in the context of a tweet from DHS, which we know at this point is a compromised source. CBP suck but they get much more extensive training than ICE, it would be completely unlike them to flee from a situation rather than fall back and request backup, much less without alerting anyone at all. I’ll believe it when we get the identities of the assailants or confirmation from CBP themselves, but until then this seems off to me.
Can anyone confirm that it was actually CBP and not ICE? Kind of really matters in terms of the implications of the illegal goon squad tactics spreading.
Multiple news outlets are saying border patrol. Here’s the NYT
That article only mentions CBP in the context of a tweet from DHS, which we know at this point is a compromised source. CBP suck but they get much more extensive training than ICE, it would be completely unlike them to flee from a situation rather than fall back and request backup, much less without alerting anyone at all. I’ll believe it when we get the identities of the assailants or confirmation from CBP themselves, but until then this seems off to me.