Philly sheriff warns ‘fake’ ICE agents they ‘don’t want this smoke’

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal has sent a strong warning to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents: They should not expect brotherly love if they try to operate in her city the same way they conduct themselves in Minnesota.

Bilal kicked off a fiery press conference Thursday by asking everyone in attendance to say the name of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a masked ICE agent on Wednesday, and calling the officers “made up, fake, wannabe” law enforcement operating under “Trump’s new army.”

“No law enforcement professional wears a mask. None,” she said.

Veteran ICE agent Jonathan Ross is accused of shooting the 37-year-old mother of three as she tried to flee during a chaotic traffic jam. Trump administration officials say Ross acted in self-defense. He has not been charged with a crime.

“Law enforcement doesn’t shoot at moving vehicles. I’m not saying she was fleeing, because she wasn’t fleeing. She was moving out of the way,” Bilal said. “Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles to invoke illegal action. »

Bilal insisted that his agents would arrest any ICE agents who entered his city and violated the law, and that Philadelphia prosecutors would charge them.

“If one of them wants to come to this city and commit a crime, you won’t be able to hide,” she warned. “You don’t want this smoke, because we’ll bring it… [and] the criminal in the White House won’t be able to keep you from going to jail.

She was referring to President Trump, who was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York in 2024 before winning re-election later that year.

Minnesota officials called on ICE agents to “fuck off Minneapolis.” It is estimated that more than 2,000 agents are deployed there.

Minnesota authorities announced Thursday that the FBI, led by MAGA stalwart Kash Patel, would take over the investigation into Wednesday’s shooting.