Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons argued that federal immigration agents are facing "constant impediments" and "constant attacks." (Reuters/Leah Millis)
"When we hear elected officials calling upon individuals to impede or obstruct ICE law enforcement operations nationwide, you're going to see incidents like this," Lyons responded. "You saw the officers and agents attempting to apprehend a criminally illegal alien, and there they are using their car as a weapon."
Lyons said one of the agents went to a hospital with neck injuries after their vehicle was struck in the incident.
"Every day, this is what the men and women of ICE are facing," he claimed. "It's constant impediments, constant attacks like this. And it's not safe for my folks, it's not safe for the public. It really needs to stop."
He also purported that "criminal gangs" are organizing groups to impede or obstruct immigration enforcement operations.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said one of the agents went to a hospital with neck injuries after their vehicle was struck in the incident. (Christopher Dilts/Getty Images)
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This comes on the heels of a recent incident in Minnesota, where Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by masked ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fired into the driver's open window from the side of the vehicle and subsequently exclaimed "f--king b---h" as the car crashed into another parked vehicle.
Democrats and local residents have condemned the shooting as a murder and called for Ross' prosecution, while the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers have defended the incident by arguing that it was a justified shooting.
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