Denver Mayor Mike Johnston orders ICE agent detention for excessive force

Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced an executive order Thursday ordering city officials to arrest an ICE agent believed to have used excessive force against or who is “assaulting, shooting or killing” civilians in the Mile High City.

The announcement comes weeks after Philadelphia’s top prosecutor made headlines by comparing ICE agents to Adolf Hitler’s Geheime Staatspolizei and warning of similar repercussions that have yet to be put into practice, like Johnston’s.

“To protect Denver, our first responders will always provide life-saving assistance to anyone injured, no matter who hurt them,” Johnston said on the steps of the city’s Government Square downtown.

“No ICE agent can stop us from saving someone’s life. To protect Denver, if we see an ICE agent using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will intervene to arrest that agent and remove them from the situation,” Johnston said, adding that federal agents should be held to the same standards as city police officers.

“No matter what the federal government does, we will not abdicate our responsibility to prosecute crimes committed in our city.”

Johnston said the order was drafted by his designated city attorney, Michiko “Miko” Brown.

He said Brown was a descendant of Japanese Americans who were collectively detained and sent to internment camps under an executive order signed by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II.

Johnston gestured to the courthouse behind him, noting that it was named after former Colorado Republican Gov. Ralph Carr.

In 1942, Carr took a different approach than many Western state governors and opposed Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans in the region.

Johnston added he would not accept ‘kidnappings'[s]” residents, noting that “no one will have to worry if their father is kidnapped on his way to the store.”

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Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (RJ Sangosti/Getty Images)

“[I]n Denver, we have proven time and time again that we are stronger than any obstacles we face because we are a city that looks to each other, not to each other. Through fires and floods, booms and busts, tournaments and raids, we have remained true to the values ​​of the West: all are welcome. All are valued. Everyone is protected. »

In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner recently took to the podium in Penn Square to denounce ICE as “a small group of wannabe Nazis” and promised that “if we have to hunt you down like they hunted the Nazis for decades, we will find out who you are.”

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This remark led to a warning from Congress. House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Greg Steube, R-Fla., requested that Attorney General Pam Bondi investigate Krasner’s remarks under a federal law that mandates criminal charges of up to 10 years for threatening federal agents.

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