LAPD tells officers to ‘keep the peace’ when called to ICE arrests, confrontations

New guidelines have directed LAPD officers sent to federal immigration application reports to maintain peace, try to verify the identity of the persons proceeding with arrests and document the events on the worn video of the body if those who claim to be federal agents refuse to cooperate.

The instructions have been issued in recent days following many citizens of “attempts to kidnap”, when federal agents, who often wear facial covers, dressed in street clothing and unmarked vehicle driving, try to hold people on the street or in companies.

“In some cases, the agents would have refused to identify themselves, resulting in confusion, calls for service and tensions between the public and the application of the law,” said agents, according to contacts in the application of laws.

The new directive said that agents should only take measures to safeguard lives and property and remain separated from immigration actions.

He said agents should try to defuse tensions in scenes, provide clear information to all members of the community present and take crime reports for kidnapping or false imprisonment if the agents “failed to identify after an attempted verification”.

The instructions indicated that the supervisors on the ground should be sent to the scenes, the command staff must be informed and a report must be made to the person of the ministry’s immigration point.

“These are unprecedented circumstances they face,” said LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, the council of police commissioners in response to questions about people who, the police had met with immigration arrests.

“There have been a lot of conversations with a lot of concerns for” Blue on Blue “interactions, many concerns about the perceptions of the communities that people who are there are not what they claim to be,” said McDonnell.

“If someone is not sure that the people they are dealing with are in fact agents of the federal government, call 911,” he said.

It was not clear how many of these calls have received the LAPD since federal law enforcement bodies began the application of more aggressive immigration in southern California.

On June 10, some members of the municipal council urged the LAPD chief to try to further distribute the police of federal immigration actions, saying that the police ‘response to stop the scenes – even for the control of crowds – suggested that the ministry helped federal agents.

“These people are not our partners,” said Chairman of the Board Marquece Harris-Dawson.

“They are simply not, I don’t care about the badges they have, I don’t care who they are under, they are not our partners,” he said.

Advisor Imelda Padilla asked McDonnell to use the ministry access to confidential law implementation of the law to file the communities when the application of immigration has been planned, a request that McDonnell immediately refused.

“You can warn us,” said Padilla, “so that we can warn our people, in the minds of your loyalty to the city of Los Angeles.”

“So you ask me to inform you of a application measure taken by another agency before it happens?” McDonnell asked.

“Yeah,” nodded Padilla.

“We can’t do this,” said McDonnell.

“Why not?” Asked Padilla.

“It would be an obstacle to justice, you may want to talk to the city lawyer,” replied McDonnell.

The LAPD has prohibited agents more than one generation with direct participation in immigration application arrests, and more recently any employee of the city to share information that could be used in application efforts.

This position was highlighted in the trial of the Trump administration filed against the city on Monday in response to its “sanctuary city” policies, alleging that the rules of the city for the police and other workers return to the obstruction of federal law.