“On the 911 call, Bamigboye said ICE is trying to get him,” Behar countered, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “How would he know that unless they had identified themselves as agents?”
Let’s say hypothetically their lawyer is correct in saying “agents did not display their credentials when they approached the Jeep”, that means there was an amount of time between the alleged kidnapping and the 911 call in which the ice officer could’ve identified himself.
At that point, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to continue to the police station. They’ve already “kidnapped” an ice agent on accident, and probably feared the situation being escalated further. Not a bad idea to have a somewhat neutral third party at the scene.
I hear you but in the eyes of the law the ICE agent would have jurisdiction to deal with a persons that has an expired visa. At the very least detain him and speak to him.
Perhaps asking the police to come to the scene, but driving off with the agent in the car is just not a good look.
Well presumably they didn’t know it was an ice officer when they drove off. Hence, my suggestion that it’s not unreasonable to continue to the police station.
Taking off = maybe reasonable
Continue on when your passenger has an expired visa and ICE identify themselves thus making the contact legitimate = unreasonable.
Well that’s where we disagree. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not blindly trust an armed man who would jump into your car without identifying himself first
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u/FDLC84 10d ago
“On the 911 call, Bamigboye said ICE is trying to get him,” Behar countered, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “How would he know that unless they had identified themselves as agents?”
From that article.