Kathy Hochul

I don't know who you are.

You know, I was in an interesting encounter with an ICE officer when I was trying to free an elected official from ICE custody a few months ago.

They literally took our city controller at the time and arrested him.

And I marched up there and stood outside the door and said, I'm not leaving until you free this individual.

He was simply trying to help people being escorted to court.

and they alleged that he assaulted somebody, which is a flat out lie.

Any surprise there?

No.

So I stood there for an hour in the hallway talking to ICE agents.

And I said, why do you have to wear the masks?

Like, what's the mask all about?

They said they're worried about being doxxed and harassed by people.

I said, but FBI agents don't do that.

And my police don't do that.

Our sheriffs don't do that.

And they're exposed.

They're on the front lines of people every day.

Like, why do you need to do this?

And they really didn't have an answer.

It's part of the intimidation tactics to have us be submissive, you know, to have the population terrified that this person could do something.