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BumRushDaShow

(163,279 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:25 AM Wednesday

California cop tried to stop a man pointing a gun at a female driver. It was a plainclothes ICE agent

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 11 November 2025 17:59 EST


A police officer in Santa Ana, California made a surprising discovery after stopping a man who'd allegedly been pointing a gun at a motorist. The suspect was an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.

A woman was driving behind the unmarked ICE vehicle when an agent inside allegedly pointed his gun at the woman, suspecting that she was following their vehicle around to disrupt their immigration raids, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Since ICE agents refuse to identify themselves and often operate while wearing masks, there has been a growing number of incidents in which residents and local police cannot tell if the individual they're dealing with is a federal agent or an opportunistic criminal.

The FBI recently issued a memo requesting that agents clearly identify themselves when they're asked after a several reported incidents involving masked criminals posing as immigration officers who have robbed and kidnapped victims.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/california-cop-ice-gun-driver-b2863314.html

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California cop tried to stop a man pointing a gun at a female driver. It was a plainclothes ICE agent (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP
No "law enforcement officer" goes around pointing guns at random people.... groundloop Wednesday #1
I think they get all their gun training from TV and movies. SomewhereInTheMiddle Wednesday #2
How many women are being raped by these Gestapo ice scum Demsrule86 Wednesday #3
I initially read that as ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Wednesday #6
I think you're looking for Pistachio Ice Cream JustABozoOnThisBus Wednesday #8
God, I need a laugh on my way to another Demsrule86 Wednesday #13
Yeah exactly. That woman is lucky the cops were there. Demsrule86 Wednesday #12
Trump didn't release all those prisoners for nothing. travelingthrulife Wednesday #19
So WTF? orangecrush Wednesday #4
Undercover ICE Agents can terrorize people and hold them at gunpoint. Irish_Dem Wednesday #5
I fucking hate this timeline with this fucking out of control secret police force LymphocyteLover Wednesday #7
ICE is just another name for Gestapo. Hope these villains face justice soon. Joinfortmill Wednesday #9
Damn! Where are all these trigger-happy cops when you need one? DFW Wednesday #10
"Surprising discovery," my ASS. Paladin Wednesday #11
One day we need to have Nuremburg style trials for these people IronLionZion Wednesday #14
This should be the lead story on every newscast nuxvomica Wednesday #15
Seriously, does anybody know if the NAZI Gestapo RVN VET71 Wednesday #16
ICE thugs (or other Fed law enforcement) are going to end up shooting and killing more of us duckworth969 Wednesday #17
American Gestapo fear tactic in action. republianmushroom Wednesday #18
ICE Barbie Gets ROASTED After Publicity Stunt BACKFIRES - Really American Rhiannon12866 15 hrs ago #20

groundloop

(13,427 posts)
1. No "law enforcement officer" goes around pointing guns at random people....
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:33 AM
Wednesday

Those ICE goons aren't law enforcement, they're just goons hired by a wannabe dictator to enforce his sick agenda. Those bastards need to be put behind bars on state firearms charges.

2. I think they get all their gun training from TV and movies.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:41 AM
Wednesday

"I thought they looked funny/looked at me funny, so I drew down on them and never bothered to identify myself. Gotta keep my cover don't you know."

Right out of Bad Boyz III.

6. I initially read that as ...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:15 AM
Wednesday

"Gestapo ice cream."

I think I need a snack. Though not that flavor.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,485 posts)
8. I think you're looking for Pistachio Ice Cream
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:39 AM
Wednesday

I will pull over and stop for Pistachio Ice Cream.

No, officer, I have no guns. I do, however, have a spoon.

Demsrule86

(71,440 posts)
13. God, I need a laugh on my way to another
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:15 AM
Wednesday

Test. hope all goes well and I am out of the hospital by Friday. Great post rec.

Irish_Dem

(77,889 posts)
5. Undercover ICE Agents can terrorize people and hold them at gunpoint.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:13 AM
Wednesday

Every crook and robber will pull this act from now on.

DFW

(59,355 posts)
10. Damn! Where are all these trigger-happy cops when you need one?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:48 AM
Wednesday

Something has to give. One more “whew that was close” won’t change anything except the next briefing.

Paladin

(32,005 posts)
11. "Surprising discovery," my ASS.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:49 AM
Wednesday

An ICE agent, wielding a firearm in an improper fashion? That's getting to be regular daily news.

IronLionZion

(50,327 posts)
14. One day we need to have Nuremburg style trials for these people
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:21 AM
Wednesday

in the meantime we need to win a majority in congress to defund ICE

nuxvomica

(13,776 posts)
15. This should be the lead story on every newscast
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:43 AM
Wednesday

Instead, the MSM focuses on the political gamesmanship.

RVN VET71

(3,096 posts)
16. Seriously, does anybody know if the NAZI Gestapo
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:59 AM
Wednesday

could have gotten away with this bull-pucky? These ICE goons are entirely under-trained and undisciplined? They behave like animals (as here) and not agents of the Federal Government. So I wonder if one of Hitler's Gestapo goons would have been severely disciplined, say, for rashly threatening an Aryan woman publicly by pointing a gun at her because he was in a bad mood?

.

duckworth969

(995 posts)
17. ICE thugs (or other Fed law enforcement) are going to end up shooting and killing more of us
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:32 AM
Wednesday

Two words: Kent State.

The link is a well-known photo of the incident, that’s Mary Ann Vecchio in that shot.

https://share.google/images/Cpr2eQSOcZzwZ7YE6

I know that was National Guard.

But our soldiers should never be put in a position where they lift a rifle, put their finger on the trigger and point it at a fellow citizen.

I think when that confrontation finally happens, depending on how many are killed, that could end up being a situation that can’t be easily controlled.

There are always naysayers, the folk who roll their eyes saying “Take it easy Chicken Little, you’re being overly dramatic. Just calm down, don’t make a big thing of it”.

Right.

Rhiannon12866

(246,926 posts)
20. ICE Barbie Gets ROASTED After Publicity Stunt BACKFIRES - Really American
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:51 AM
15 hrs ago


Really American host Steve Harness breaks down ICE agents getting caught on camera doing the unthinkable as Kristi Noem loses control of her department! - 11/13/2025.


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