Rep. Steve Cohen from Tennessee took over Jim Jordan’s ridiculous House Judiciary Committee Hearing On ‘Deporting Fraudsters Act,’ to demand proper investigations of the “unjustified homicide” of Renee Good at the hands of ICE officer Jonathan Ross.
Rep. Cohen explained that ICE agents have no authority to harass motorists since it had nothing to do with an ICE operation.
COHEN: And it’s my understanding from reading the laws and being briefed on by some that the ICE agents have authority only when they have a warrant for somebody’s arrest or a reason.
Reasonable cause, probable cause that somebody is in the country and illegally in the country because of immigration problems.
But they have no law enforcement authority whatsoever unless they’ve been deputized by the governor, and they had no right to try to control traffic because this did not involve an ice operation that was being deterred in any way.
When that officer came up to the car and reached in and grabbed inside and said, Open up your car door. Get out of your car. He had no right to do it.
Good was obviously trying to leave the scene frightened by ICE’s aggressive actions. Why would she get out of her car? I’d fear for my life if I was harassed by ICE agents. Driving away would be the proper response to that situation. It would diffuse it.
No one would have thought another ICE agent would shoot her in the face.
