Andrew Sage

being fought over in the courts.

Portland police were brought up on the stand and testified that during one night out at ICE, federal officers gassed Portland police and fired pepper balls at one officer.

And when Portland police confronted federal, not ICE, sorry, but these are federal FPS agents outside of the ICE building.

And when Portland police confronted the FPS agents afterwards, they responded, help or get out of the way.

And this is simply, there's no rules of engagement, right?

Rules of engagement for soldiers and the like are supposed to be.

Stuff like you don't fire until a certain standard of danger exists, right?

There are rules at which point you are allowed to engage with which kinds of weapons, right?

Your ROE may say one thing about using a nightstick

or MACE, and it'll say something else about using tear gas or whatever.

There's no actual ROE for these guys.

They're allowed to just kind of fire whenever they want.

And they're not well-trained.

They're not very good at what they do.

Most of them have not actually had the kind of training they're supposed to have with these weapon systems they're using.

And they're just kind of firing willy-nilly, which is why they've been hitting cops repeatedly.

Most FBS agents are contractors.

They're not full-time law enforcement officers.

Right.

Talking of things that it would have been easy to see coming, I want to talk about ICE's facial recognition app.