US man shoots off-duty ICE agent who allegedly attacked him and daughter

2 days ago by MicroWave to c/news

ICE official, who was sleeping on man’s lawn and appeared ‘intoxicated’, faces felony charges, California police say

A 72-year-old man shot an off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official in California early on Friday morning after the “intoxicated and agitated” official assaulted him and his daughter on their property, local authorities allege.

The Fresno police department said that the ICE official was receiving medical care after being shot in the midsection. The official, identified as David Gonzalez, is facing felony charges for assaulting the father-daughter duo, Fresno police said.

It was not immediately clear for how Gonzalez had been with ICE and what exactly he did for ICE. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, referred all questions about Gonzalez to Fresno police.

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CalemitousVariantK 54 points 2 days ago

It should be legal to shoot ice agents, on duty or off, particularly if they, as usual, are masked and not following police procedures. And if the man was afraid for his life, as he definitely should have been if an ice agent was involved, the precedent set by multiple high profile recent cases in other states is that it was legal. I hope that jury finds the same.

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Cocodapuf 22 points a day ago

Honestly, since ICE agents don't provide any kind of id when asked, we shouldn't refer to them as ICE agents, because that's really unconfirmed. It would be more appropriate to say "masked man dressed as ICE agent", because we can't actually know that they're an official rather than a criminal in a costume. And obviously, the correct and rational response to being assaulted or harassed by someone in a mask is to treat them like a criminal, and defend yourself appropriately.

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CrossingtheAbyss -29 points 2 days ago

It should be legal to shoot ice agents, on duty or off, particularly if they, as usual, are masked and not following police procedures.

This isn't self-defense, it's just plain murder. While I don't agree with ICE wearing masks and acting lawless, calling for more violence is not the way. Don't become the very thing you hate.

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SabinStargem 39 points 2 days ago

They willfully chose to become monsters. Your call for "humanity" is shielding evil from consequences.

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halcyoncmdr 25 points 2 days ago

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chiliedogg 23 points a day ago

Some armed, masked goon refusing to show ID trespasses on my property I'm not gonna greet them politely.

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athatet 7 points a day ago

Shooting someone before they shoot you is deffo self defense wtf.

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Krumm 5 points a day ago

Stop the thugs, not the people punching back if you want it to stop. It's cowardly to speak down, speak up and these poor folks will have nothing* to bitch about.

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stinkytofuisgood 4 points a day ago

I really don't think calling for no violence in a progressively more fascist, corporate-owned country that gets a hard on from shooting deadly weapons is logical.

It's in their constitution, go wild guys. Better it used on the people harming society at large than anywhere else.

America can deepthroat the barrel of a nice thick gun and pull the trigger as the climax

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Kaligalis 4 points 20 hours ago

It's murder like in killing a Nazi soldier in France as a French during Nazi occupation in WW2. Sure, it's illegal under the occupation forces' law. But it's still the right thing to do.

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CluelessCalls 2 points a day ago

You’re human garbage.

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CalemitousVariantK 2 points a day ago

I appreciate your sentiment against violence more than the community at large. While I do hate needless divisiveness, as many others have already said in this instance the person in question made a conscious choice to enact the hateful, barbaric policies of the trump administration as the instrument of violence for personal profit.

We who cherish tolerance must be the most mindful of the tolerance paradox.

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el_muerte 0 points 20 hours ago

"DAE killing Nazis is murder?"

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conquer4 0 points a day ago

I don't think you know how war works.

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