Posted on 07/23/2019 12:52:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
Here’s something I hope doesn’t become the beginning of a disturbing trend. In a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, an ICE agent arrived at the home of an illegal alien to make an arrest. The suspect was sitting in his van with son and the officer blocked them off from escaping with his own vehicle. What should have been a fairly routine detention then took a turn for the weird. Neighbors began showing up, delivery food, water and gasoline to the suspect, eventually forming a human chain to block the ICE agent while the man ran back into his house. (The Hill)
A group of neighbors in Hermitage, Tenn., formed a human chain Monday morning to prevent an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent from trying to bring a man into custody.
News Channel 5 Nashville reported that an ICE vehicle had blocked the man, who was inside his van with his son, from leaving his driveway.
Over the course of the morning, neighbors brought the man water, gas and wet rags to allow him to remain in the van, according to the outlet. After about four hours, the group formed a human chain to allow the two to run from the vehicle and enter their house.
By the time all of this was over, local police were on the scene as well, but they didn’t step in on either side of the standoff. They were only there to keep order, not to assist with immigration enforcement activities. (See: sanctuary policies.)
The problem for the ICE agent was that he had an administrative warrant. This authorized him to detain the suspect, but not to forcibly remove him from his home or vehicle. Once the illegal alien left the vehicle to head for the house the agent could have arrested him had he not been blocked by the human chain of neighbors.
First of all, this type of obstruction is illegal and it has nothing to do with immigration law. In Tennessee, Prevention or Obstruction of Legal Writ or Process is a Class A misdemeanor. Depending on the circumstances, additional charges may be brought that are felonies. The ICE agent was following the law by refraining from attempting to remove the man from his vehicle. But as soon as the neighbors moved to block to officer from reaching the illegal alien, they were in violation of the law.
If this town has sanctuary policies in place forbidding the local police from assisting ICE, that’s one thing. But that doesn’t mean that they can blithely stand by and watch a crime being committed just because it proves to be an inconvenience to immigration enforcement. The neighbors were breaking the law, but the local police were negligent as well. This establishes a very damaging precedent and they should all be held to account or we’re going to be seeing this all over the country.
Idiots.
They should have been arrested for obstructing law enforcement.
Set an example! Arrest them, charge them, convict them, and jail them. Give no mercy to them. Make clear that aiding criminal behavior is criminal and has consequences.
The story doesn’t say if he was taken into custody or not ?
That was my first thought. Obstruction of justice. Do that to the first few in line and see how many brave souls remain.
Start arresting them. This is well within the ICE guys rights.
Throw in aiding and abetting as well.
Probable immigration status of the wetback’s accomplices ? ? ?
Arrest them ALL.
Should arrest the whole chain.
Now that’s collusion.
Another article mentioned that they came back later and were able to take him away.
With stuff like this and the treatment of the police officers in Harlem, I think at least a Cold War version of CWII is already underway.
My thoughts.
Were the neighbors arrested for obstruction and interference of duly appointed Federal Law Enforcement Officers in the carrying out of their official duties? Isn’t that a felony?
Just heard (on radio) of this happening in Oregon courthouse.
Human chain got pepper-sprayed!
As a cop assigned as an Urban Combat Soldier in Brooklyn’s 77 pct, in the late 60’s I loved this. I locked up a few more morons and collected overtime money processing them. It was a win win. I still remember the Penal Code Section: 195.05 Obstructing Governmental Administration.
A dramatization show in the 1960s showed what it was like before 2 officer patrol cars and coordinated radio contact became common. (I think cheap cities soon went back to one officer cars, though).
A felon was arrested but people nearby slowly surrounded the officer and shouted at him and threatened him. The group got large quickly. — “Gonna arrest all of us at the same time, cop”?” how many can you take down,cop?”
History repeats itself.
Break out the rubber bullets. That would increase their pucker power.
A person of color so he was quickly released (with apologies) after telling them he was turning his life around and had an emotionally wrenching note handwritten by his mother testifying to that./s
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