Nick Miroff
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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And we know that the officer who fired was a new hire.
In this case, an officer who had federal law enforcement experience working for the Veterans Affairs Department police force, but had been hired by ICE just this year.
And I think, you know, more details are coming out about this officer's training and his background.
Yeah, what I've been told is that, you know, ICE officers not only went through this kind of fast track training program last fall and into this winter because of the White House's urgency in getting, you know, thousands of more trainees out onto the streets.
That generally ICE officers don't get as much training in safe vehicle stops as, say, you know, large police departments.
And that at the same time, they are increasingly relying on this tactic in order to make their arrest numbers and to...
to meet the pressure from the White House to have more and more arrests and deportations.
And so they're relying on this tactic.
They don't have what police departments call a vehicle pursuit policy that really establishes clear guidelines as to when you can use force during a vehicle stop.
Because what the Supreme Court has established is that you cannot...
shoot somebody just because they're disobeying your commands or they're fleeing police officers.
They have to, the officer has to be able to articulate, you know, a reasonable fear of imminent harm to themselves, to the other officers or to the public.
Yeah, well, the order of events is that Secretary Mullen talked to Susan Collins three times on Monday after the fatal shooting in Maine.
And he also talked to Senator Angus King, the other senator from Maine.
He had been hearing from senior ICE officials that the vehicle stops were becoming a problem and are exposing the insufficient training of these officers.
So he was already hearing about these worries.
And so late Monday night, an order went out from an ICE official to all the ICE supervisors around the country to halt the vehicle stops.
And so the president, you know, people woke up to this Tuesday and by Wednesday morning, the president sent out his his statement on Truth Social, effectively saying that they needed to continue with the traffic stops, that kind of countermanding the order from the ICE officials.
and saying that the traffic stops are a much-needed tool and that they can't back down.
And we know that he did that because throughout the day on Tuesday, as immigration hardliners and more extreme members of the MAGA coalition were
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