There will be no brotherly love for ICE agents if they go to Philly per Philadelphia Sherriff Rochelle Bilal.
On Thursday, Sherriff Rochelle Bilal, a 27-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, sent a blunt warning to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
She began her fiery press conference by having everyone acknowledge Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot in the face by an ICE agent.
“Say her name. Renee Good. Renee Good. Renee Good.” She goes on to say, “Law enforcement professionals, real ones, not the fake made up ICE, probably Trump’s new army to attack citizens of the United States…no law enforcement professional wears a mask. None.” She goes on to say, “Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles…Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles invoking action that is illegal.”
Bilal insisted that her officers will arrest any ICE agents who come into her city and violate the law, and that Philadelphia prosecutors will charge them.
“If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide, nobody will whisk you off,” Bilal said during the press conference. “You don’t want this smoke because we will bring it to you.”
In a dig at President Donald Trump, she warned that “the criminal in the White House would not be able to keep” ICE agents from heading to jail.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump officials have portrayed the encounter as an act of self-defense and depicted Good as an aggressor who used her vehicle against the officer. They have labeled her conduct “domestic terrorism” and insisted the agent was justified in firing as she began to drive away.
“An officer of ours acted quickly, and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him,” Noem said.
DHS indicated also asserted that the shooting was in self-defense.
“Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism,” DHS noted in a Wednesday post on X.