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Police Officer Shot Outside Immigration Detention Facility in Texas
NYTimes ^ | July 6, 2025 | Amanda Holpuch

Posted on 07/06/2025 4:23:53 PM PDT by ransomnote

A police officer was shot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas late Friday night and several armed people were taken into custody, the authorities said.

The shooting took place outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The detention center, which is about 28 miles south of Fort Worth, holds people who are awaiting deportation or are accused of violating immigration laws.

Around 11 p.m. on the Fourth of July, officers from the Alvarado Police Department responded to a call about a suspicious person outside the detention center and saw someone who appeared to have a gun, the sheriff’s office said.

One officer tried to talk to the person and then several other people opened fire on the officer, who was wounded in the neck and flown to a hospital. The officer was treated and discharged from the hospital, the sheriff’s office said.

Several people tried to flee, but they were taken into custody by officers, the statement said. It was not clear how many people were taken into custody nor whether they were still being held on Sunday morning.

“At this time the motives of the suspects are unclear,” the sheriff’s office said.


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alvaredo; texas

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1 posted on 07/06/2025 4:23:53 PM PDT by ransomnote
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“At this time the motives of the suspects are unclear,” the sheriff’s office said.

They were driven to madness by Donald Trump.

2 posted on 07/06/2025 4:25:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ransomnote

Just guessing, but it appears their motive was to hurt the officer.


3 posted on 07/06/2025 4:26:00 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: ransomnote

Two day old story. Long enough for us to get mug shots. And can law enforcement come up with something other than “motive is unclear”? It makes them sound like idiots when we know full well what the motive was. I’d lay $10,000 bucks that this was leftist lunatic pro-illegal immigration aholes. Most likely white and either college graduates or still in college.


4 posted on 07/06/2025 4:31:09 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Steely Tom

Their “motives” are clear. They are bringing back fascism. I hope they catch the bastards and string them up to an oak tree. Scum.


5 posted on 07/06/2025 4:35:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: ransomnote
"“At this time the motives of the suspects are unclear,” "

What a nitwit! Based on the report, it was, essentially, an ambush to kill cops...
Should keep his mouth shut or at least say something that doesn't indicate incompetence...

6 posted on 07/06/2025 4:38:06 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: ransomnote

The sheriff’s office sounds retarded.


7 posted on 07/06/2025 4:44:36 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: j.havenfarm

I’ve looked around the internet; can’t find anything about their identities.


8 posted on 07/06/2025 4:48:07 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: ransomnote

Related:

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/07/06/portland-ice-july-4th-actions-n2191305

“Portland Anti-ICE Crew Taunted Agents, Then Had a ‘Find Out’ Moment on July 4th”


9 posted on 07/06/2025 4:50:15 PM PDT by CFW
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To: ransomnote

My recommendation to use live rounds should be accepted shortly.


10 posted on 07/06/2025 4:51:50 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: ransomnote

It was a coordinated effort to kill immigration officers.
These cretin should see some serious time in jail.


11 posted on 07/06/2025 4:52:42 PM PDT by daku
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I’ve looked around the internet; can’t find anything about their identities.

You don't need to know that until their internet footprints have been reduced to zero.

12 posted on 07/06/2025 4:56:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ransomnote

Nobody on the police side shot back? Did they send out an officer or a social worker?


13 posted on 07/06/2025 5:20:02 PM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: daku

Summary executions get the message across more pointedly.


14 posted on 07/06/2025 5:29:01 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: ransomnote

It’s going to be a long, hot Summer.


15 posted on 07/06/2025 5:36:39 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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I think people involved should be charged as terrorists, and if possible deported to some where, because they clearly don’t care about USA nor it’s law officers.


16 posted on 07/06/2025 5:38:25 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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Trump is exporting Democrat illegal votes. They will use violence.


17 posted on 07/06/2025 5:49:49 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: ransomnote

SHOT THROUGH THE NECK, AND YER TO BLAME
YOU GIVE RATS, A BAD NAME A BAD NAME


18 posted on 07/06/2025 5:53:37 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Oak tree?

Probably have to be a cottonwood tree, at least in that part of Texas I would imagine.

Any tree. And use piano wire.


19 posted on 07/06/2025 5:55:29 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Right. I consider this the most important story (after the sad and tragic loss of the flood victims’ lives).

If this is a trend then the Dems are going to be in for some payback.


20 posted on 07/06/2025 5:58:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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