Eric Swalwell

We deserve to march and rally peacefully without having our supporters murdered in the streets.

Let me... Hold on a second.

Hold on a second.

As governor, I'll use my emergency powers and I'll tell every state agency, we are not, as a policy, hiring ICE agents.

Because right now, these guys doing this work, it's a decision.

No one's holding a gun and saying, you have to work for ICE.

And so when I'm governor, if you're still working for ICE and you haven't got the message that no one's asking you to do this, you won't be hired in the state.

And it's part of an approach that says,

Either we can be on our heels as the most vulnerable in our community, or we can make them react and go on offense.

And so I can't take on any other crisis until I do that first part of the job, which is, you know, to be a fighter protector for Californians.

yeah it's horrific to watch i mean ice is absolutely out of control but this is what they want right they go into communities they're bragging that they've sent 2 000 agents to minneapolis the goal is to draw the foul is to put themselves in a position like this where people you know righteously are asking like what the are you doing in our communities and then they use you know that resentment

And that resistance is justification for what they just did.

Look, I'm the son of a police officer.

I'm a brother of two police officers.

I'm a former prosecutor.

And I have always had the backs of law enforcement.

But what that officer did there was murder.

You know, that there was no de-escalation.

There was no effort to, you know, use any other level of force.

It does not appear in any angle that I've seen, you know, that his life was in danger.