Madison McVan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's usually one person driving and then a second person manning the phones.
And so the passenger is following along with a group chat.
They're on a group call with other people in the neighborhood who are doing the same thing so they can correspond about where they're seeing ICE and notify each other when someone finds ICE and starts following the vehicle.
This kind of plays out a pattern that I've seen over and over now, which is that the observers start following an ICE vehicle.
The ICE vehicle starts, you know, basically identifies themselves as federal officers by checking to see if they're being followed.
They turn into a side street or they do a aggressive maneuver or they start weaving through parking lots, seeming to make sure they're being followed.
At some point, they stop the vehicle.
The ICE agents get out of the car, surround the vehicle, and tell the observers to stop following them, that they're obstructing ICE operations, and that they may be arrested if they continue following.
When I was riding along with a pair of observers, they were following an ICE vehicle and that exact thing happened.
ICE officers got out of their vehicles, they surrounded the car, and one officer told the driver, stop following us.
The observers decided to continue following the car and the ICE vehicle drove straight to the address of one of the observers that was in the car.
So it seemed like they were doing some kind of looking up of the identity of the person who owned the vehicle and then driving to their home address.
The ICE vehicle stopped at the observer's home and then kept going.
And so the observers decided to continue following the vehicles
Two of the vehicles in the convoy split up and the observers decided to follow the third ICE car.
As they were following that third ICE car, agents circled back to the observer's house that they had just stopped in front of and went and banged on the door.