Maura Healey
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They're not trained.
They don't know what they're doing.
They're not acting like law enforcement should act.
And look, we've seen everything from people being killed in the streets or shot at to U.S.
citizens also being picked up and detained to little kids being detained.
This is not making us safer.
And I'm going to do what I can here in Massachusetts to protect people.
And I think that's what governors in other parts are doing as well.
Yeah, I mean, look, I work very closely with the attorney general here and with law enforcement around the state and with district attorney's offices around the state.
Again, I was a former AG and prosecutor myself.
I can tell you that anyone who commits a crime against a resident of Massachusetts will be and should be held accountable.
I don't care if you're working for ICE or the federal government, no one is above the law here in Massachusetts.
And I know that our law enforcement, including our prosecutors here in the state, are willing to take action against anyone who commits crimes against residents in Massachusetts, including ICE.
The important thing too, David, that we've done is
We've set up a portal where people can submit videos, testimony, provide information, documenting offenses by ICE agents.
It's very important that these things be documented, not just for purposes of holding people accountable as they need to be under the law, including to the extent they need to be criminally prosecuted, but also just so that we understand what has happened here, what has transpired here.
We cannot let this happen again.
in American history.
We cannot let this happen.
I mean, it just saddens me and it's unbelievable to me that we have ICE acting as ICE is acting.