ICE Agents Should Be Charged for Breaking Local, State Laws
On MSNBC’s “The Briefing” Thursday, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said ICE agents should be charged for violating local and state laws.
Host Jen Psaki said: “You said on Sunday that you were considering prosecuting ICE agents who violate the law. What can you tell us about that? What would that look like?”
Pritzker said, “We don’t know if anyone would be held accountable at the federal level. So we’re looking at all options at the local level with the county attorneys and the attorneys general to prosecute people when they break Illinois law, when they break local law. And, and we think they did, you know, when they go through an area, someone yells at them and they decide to just throw a tear gas grenade out of the car as they pass through someone who is on the side of the road, which it seems to me is, I know, a violation of Illinois law. So the question is, can we hold officers, agents accountable when they do something like this? If it was a police officer, we could, if it was, you know, you or me or just an average person throwing a, you know, a grenade tear gas through the side of a window at people, we could hold them responsible. So it seems like they should be held accountable for violating local and local rules. state laws.
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