Overview

• Recent videos show aggressive tactics by ICE officers, including tackles, pepper spray or tear gas, projectiles and drawn firearms during arrests and street encounters.
• Former CBP commissioner Gil Kerlikowske argues ICE lacks the training and experience needed for city operations and calls the displays of force unnecessary.
• ICE and DHS say officers are highly trained, use a minimum amount of force and follow de-escalation standards, and an ICE spokesperson says drawing a weapon can serve as de-escalation.
• Documented incidents include a woman pulled from a car during Chicago school pickup, a tear-gas canister thrown from an unmarked SUV near a middle school, and a Hyattsville arrest where an officer dropped his gun and appeared to point it at bystanders.
• In the Chicago area, Pastor David Black alleges he was hit in the head by a pepper ball and has sued, a TV reporter says an agent fired a pepper ball at her car as local police investigate, and separate DHS-described threat cases include one fatal and one nonfatal shooting that lawyers and body-camera footage reportedly dispute.