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BumRushDaShow

(167,619 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:25 AM Nov 2025

California cop tried to stop a man pointing a gun at a female driver. It was a plainclothes ICE agent

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 11 November 2025 17:59 EST


A police officer in Santa Ana, California made a surprising discovery after stopping a man who'd allegedly been pointing a gun at a motorist. The suspect was an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.

A woman was driving behind the unmarked ICE vehicle when an agent inside allegedly pointed his gun at the woman, suspecting that she was following their vehicle around to disrupt their immigration raids, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Since ICE agents refuse to identify themselves and often operate while wearing masks, there has been a growing number of incidents in which residents and local police cannot tell if the individual they're dealing with is a federal agent or an opportunistic criminal.

The FBI recently issued a memo requesting that agents clearly identify themselves when they're asked after a several reported incidents involving masked criminals posing as immigration officers who have robbed and kidnapped victims.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/california-cop-ice-gun-driver-b2863314.html

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California cop tried to stop a man pointing a gun at a female driver. It was a plainclothes ICE agent (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 2025 OP
No "law enforcement officer" goes around pointing guns at random people.... groundloop Nov 2025 #1
I think they get all their gun training from TV and movies. SomewhereInTheMiddle Nov 2025 #2
How many women are being raped by these Gestapo ice scum Demsrule86 Nov 2025 #3
I initially read that as ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Nov 2025 #6
I think you're looking for Pistachio Ice Cream JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2025 #8
God, I need a laugh on my way to another Demsrule86 Nov 2025 #13
Yeah exactly. That woman is lucky the cops were there. Demsrule86 Nov 2025 #12
Trump didn't release all those prisoners for nothing. travelingthrulife Nov 2025 #19
So WTF? orangecrush Nov 2025 #4
No. Bret Kavanaugh said that ICE may occasionally shoot an innocent citizen RVN VET71 Nov 2025 #21
Undercover ICE Agents can terrorize people and hold them at gunpoint. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #5
I fucking hate this timeline with this fucking out of control secret police force LymphocyteLover Nov 2025 #7
ICE is just another name for Gestapo. Hope these villains face justice soon. Joinfortmill Nov 2025 #9
Damn! Where are all these trigger-happy cops when you need one? DFW Nov 2025 #10
"Surprising discovery," my ASS. Paladin Nov 2025 #11
Their training is a bit minimal RVN VET71 Nov 2025 #22
One day we need to have Nuremburg style trials for these people IronLionZion Nov 2025 #14
This should be the lead story on every newscast nuxvomica Nov 2025 #15
Seriously, does anybody know if the NAZI Gestapo RVN VET71 Nov 2025 #16
ICE thugs (or other Fed law enforcement) are going to end up shooting and killing more of us duckworth969 Nov 2025 #17
American Gestapo fear tactic in action. republianmushroom Nov 2025 #18
ICE Barbie Gets ROASTED After Publicity Stunt BACKFIRES - Really American Rhiannon12866 Nov 2025 #20

groundloop

(13,677 posts)
1. No "law enforcement officer" goes around pointing guns at random people....
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:33 AM
Nov 2025

Those ICE goons aren't law enforcement, they're just goons hired by a wannabe dictator to enforce his sick agenda. Those bastards need to be put behind bars on state firearms charges.

2. I think they get all their gun training from TV and movies.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:41 AM
Nov 2025

"I thought they looked funny/looked at me funny, so I drew down on them and never bothered to identify myself. Gotta keep my cover don't you know."

Right out of Bad Boyz III.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,641 posts)
8. I think you're looking for Pistachio Ice Cream
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:39 AM
Nov 2025

I will pull over and stop for Pistachio Ice Cream.

No, officer, I have no guns. I do, however, have a spoon.

Demsrule86

(71,524 posts)
13. God, I need a laugh on my way to another
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:15 AM
Nov 2025

Test. hope all goes well and I am out of the hospital by Friday. Great post rec.

RVN VET71

(3,171 posts)
21. No. Bret Kavanaugh said that ICE may occasionally shoot an innocent citizen
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 10:12 PM
Nov 2025

but that if the corpse had papers proving citizenship, they'd take it home and sit it on its porch with a signed letter of apology from Kristi "dog killer" Noem -- oops, not "signed" by her, but by her autopen.

SCOTUS' wisdom, see?

Irish_Dem

(80,492 posts)
5. Undercover ICE Agents can terrorize people and hold them at gunpoint.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:13 AM
Nov 2025

Every crook and robber will pull this act from now on.

DFW

(59,926 posts)
10. Damn! Where are all these trigger-happy cops when you need one?
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:48 AM
Nov 2025

Something has to give. One more “whew that was close” won’t change anything except the next briefing.

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
11. "Surprising discovery," my ASS.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:49 AM
Nov 2025

An ICE agent, wielding a firearm in an improper fashion? That's getting to be regular daily news.

RVN VET71

(3,171 posts)
22. Their training is a bit minimal
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 10:15 PM
Nov 2025

"Which end does the bullet come out?" is the title of their "Intro to shootin'" text-pamphlet.

IronLionZion

(51,042 posts)
14. One day we need to have Nuremburg style trials for these people
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:21 AM
Nov 2025

in the meantime we need to win a majority in congress to defund ICE

nuxvomica

(13,984 posts)
15. This should be the lead story on every newscast
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:43 AM
Nov 2025

Instead, the MSM focuses on the political gamesmanship.

RVN VET71

(3,171 posts)
16. Seriously, does anybody know if the NAZI Gestapo
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:59 AM
Nov 2025

could have gotten away with this bull-pucky? These ICE goons are entirely under-trained and undisciplined? They behave like animals (as here) and not agents of the Federal Government. So I wonder if one of Hitler's Gestapo goons would have been severely disciplined, say, for rashly threatening an Aryan woman publicly by pointing a gun at her because he was in a bad mood?

.

duckworth969

(1,315 posts)
17. ICE thugs (or other Fed law enforcement) are going to end up shooting and killing more of us
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 09:32 AM
Nov 2025

Two words: Kent State.

The link is a well-known photo of the incident, that’s Mary Ann Vecchio in that shot.

https://share.google/images/Cpr2eQSOcZzwZ7YE6

I know that was National Guard.

But our soldiers should never be put in a position where they lift a rifle, put their finger on the trigger and point it at a fellow citizen.

I think when that confrontation finally happens, depending on how many are killed, that could end up being a situation that can’t be easily controlled.

There are always naysayers, the folk who roll their eyes saying “Take it easy Chicken Little, you’re being overly dramatic. Just calm down, don’t make a big thing of it”.

Right.

Rhiannon12866

(252,816 posts)
20. ICE Barbie Gets ROASTED After Publicity Stunt BACKFIRES - Really American
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:51 AM
Nov 2025


Really American host Steve Harness breaks down ICE agents getting caught on camera doing the unthinkable as Kristi Noem loses control of her department! - 11/13/2025.


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