That anecdote is a non sequitur, but nonetheless: I assume you didn't see the full video, where it turned out that the police assaulted the "illegals" unprovoked?
That Fox News article is mostly information-free, but my takeaway is that it's blaming "bail reform" for the release of the people the police assaulted, which is abjectly false: they were charged with a violent felony, which means the judge — a prosecutor for almost two decades! — could have set bail.
NYC released this illegal from Venezuela before ICE could intervene. He just killed a woman in Georgia.
He was arrested for “acting in a manner to injure a child less than 17 and a motor vehicle license violation.” He was driving in a car without a license with some 5 year old. Then released so ICE couldnt get him per sanctuary city policy.
> When ICE learns that what it believes to be a removable illegal immigrant has been arrested on criminal charges, the agency will normally lodge a detainer – a request asking local law enforcement to keep the suspect in custody until they can be transferred to ICE and put into deportation proceedings.
> In this case, however, ICE's statement says Ibarra was released before a detainer could be issued. NYC is also a "sanctuary city" which generally restricts law enforcement from complying with ICE detainers.
> I assume you didn't see the full video, where it turned out that the police assaulted the "illegals" unprovoked?
I did see the full video and that's not assault. The police are well within their right to break up a congregation of disorderly juveniles outside homeless shelters. When they resisted that they arrested them. Good. Why are you bending over backwards to protect people with this sort of history?
> At the time of his arrest, he was already walking free despite more than a dozen pending larceny charges, including six felonies related to credit card theft.
> Some, but not all, of the suspects and their associates are part of an "Oliver Twist"-style group of Venezuelan pickpockets who operate a ring around Times Square and other tourist attractions, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital Friday.
> I did see the full video and that's not assault. The police are well within their right to break up a congregation of disorderly juveniles outside homeless shelters. When they resisted that they arrested them.
It's very easy to verify that this is not what happened by simply watching the full video, which has been made public. The fact that the police omitted the first half of the video showing how the fight started is a tacit admission that they were, in fact, at fault.
I mean - an arrest, even if wrongful, is not the same as an assault. I don’t think I have the ability to judge what is a wrongful arrest simply from the video.
This video does not really vindicate the people attacking the cops imo.
I'm going to stop responding because this thread is off topic, but this is exactly what a culture of lawlessness looks like. The police very clearly assaulted someone on camera, and you're bending over backwards to find a way to exculpate them. There's a reason the judge declined to set bail.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/08/times-square-migrants-arr...
That Fox News article is mostly information-free, but my takeaway is that it's blaming "bail reform" for the release of the people the police assaulted, which is abjectly false: they were charged with a violent felony, which means the judge — a prosecutor for almost two decades! — could have set bail.