Complaints of excessive force mount against ICE as Bondi orders crackdown

Distressing images and accusations like the one seen here that immigration agents are behaving too aggressively against people are growing as protesters as well as some lawmakers and police denounce tactics used during anti-ice demonstrations

The reports of ICE using excessive force against protesters and sometimes journalists mounted this week as video surfaced of a Turkish journalist being pushed to the ground and briefly knocked unconscious

In this photo, the journalist can be seen getting medical attention before being taken to the hospital

Images like this one are being shared widely on social media, just as Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered heavier enforcement on protests

and deployed federal agents to, quote, protect ICE facilities, arrest violent agitators on the spot

She has said her department will prosecute every person who aids, abets

or conspires to commit crimes against federal officers and property. Federal officials maintain that they are responding to aggressive rhetoric and threats of violence from the general public and Democratic lawmakers

equating ICE to the Nazi party and Gestapo. According to DHS ICE has faced a 1 percent increase in assaults against them and their families The Department of Homeland Security didn immediately respond to Straight Arrow News requests for comment Some of the alleged brutality used against the public has gone viral That the case for a cyclist in Chicago who was

chased by agents after shouting an expletive about Trump. The person evaded arrest. The accusations

have become so severe that some local police and officials have stepped in to request agents to

loosen up their tactics. In Portland, Assistant Police Chief Craig Dobson said in court testimony

that ICE agents weren't, quote, following best practices in the city. And in Broadview, Illinois

where groups have steadily protested at the ICE facility, Police Chief Thomas Mills said

first responders can't do their jobs because of ICE. We are, and we are experiencing immediate

public safety crisis. The deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets by ice

near the processing center in the village of Broadview is creating a dangerous situation

for the community and all first responders. Broadview officials say they are investigating

several accusations against ICE for possible criminal penalties. For more of our unbiased

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