Law Enforcement & Intelligence
The latest coverage of the law enforcement community and all aspects of U.S. intelligence.
Vance to visit Minneapolis as tensions rise over ICE operations
Vice President J.D. Vance will visit Minneapolis on Thursday as pressure continues to escalate over Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigration arrests.
Bondi cries foul on Democrats’ abuse of blue slips after U.S. attorney’s exit in Virginia
Attorney General Pam Bondi blasted Democratic senators for sabotaging the Trump administration’s pick for U.S. attorney in Virginia by playing hardball with the blue slip tradition that gives home-state senators outsized say in federal prosecutor nominations.
As immigration agents police Minneapolis protests, experts warn of training gaps and the rising risk
Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis have used aggressive crowd-control tactics - including pointing rifles at demonstrators and deploying chemical irritants early in confrontations - actions the government says are necessary to protect officers from violent attacks. But law enforcement experts warn these measures are escalating risk and being carried out by agents without extensive crowd-management training.
Woman jailed after crashing her vehicle into a South Florida federal courthouse, police say
A woman intentionally crashed her vehicle through the front entrance of a South Florida federal courthouse building after regular hours Wednesday, causing about $200,000 in damage, authorities said.
Minnesota conducting its own probe into latest ICE shooting
Minnesota’s police shooting board is independently investigating this week’s shooting by a federal officer of a target in an immigration arrest.
Another DHS shooting: Feds say officer was ambushed and beaten, fired to stop attack
A federal agent trying to arrest an illegal immigrant in Minnesota was ambushed by people who attacked him with a shovel and a broom handle, forcing him to open fire, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.
DOJ says Lindsey Halligan will remain as U.S. attorney in Virginia
The Department of Justice is defending Lindsey Halligan’s position as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, dismissing an order by a federal judge who said she could not legally hold the title.
Joe Rogan questions ICE activities after fatal shooting, compares tactics to ‘the Gestapo’
Podcaster Joe Rogan compared immigration enforcement tactics to “the Gestapo” in the latest episode of his podcast, aligning more with those who have expressed discontent over the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good.
FBI wrongly questioned agents’ support for Trump, religious beliefs, COVID vaccine status
FBI investigators conducting security clearance reviews wrongly asked agents and other witnesses about political and religious beliefs, the bureau’s inspector general said in a new report Wednesday.
Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says
The Justice Department does not believe there is currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, a top department official said Tuesday.
D.C. inspector general opens investigation into alleged police crime data manipulation
The Office of the D.C. Inspector General has opened its own probe into allegations that the Metropolitan Police Department has been fudging its crime statistics.
DOJ attorneys resign after agency chooses not to probe ICE shooting in Minneapolis
Multiple Department of Justice attorneys have left the agency after department leaders refused to investigate last week’s deadly shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.
Trump tells Minnesotans that ‘day of reckoning & retribution’ is coming
President Trump cryptically warned Minnesota residents on Tuesday that “the day of reckoning & retribution is coming.”
Fed audit says local police don’t report all terror watch list encounters to FBI
State and local police never report many of their encounters with people on the FBI’s terrorism watch list, the government’s chief watchdog said Monday, blaming the feds for failing to give better guidance on how to use the watch list.
DOJ announces charges against illegal immigrant shot by Border Patrol in Portland
Federal prosecutors have charged one of the illegal immigrants shot by Border Patrol in Oregon last week with assaulting a federal officer, saying he repeatedly rammed his pickup truck into a government rental car, forcing officers to react.
Minnesota senator alleges ‘cover-up’ amid intensifying dispute over ICE shooting probe
The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an officer of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has morphed from a local tragedy into a national political battle, further inflaming divisions over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the role of federal agents in Democratic-led cities.
Border czar Tom Homan accuses Democrats of fueling chaos as ICE shooting fallout grows
White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Democrats and liberal activists are being hypocritical in their outrage over immigration enforcement, arguing they spent years refusing to help deport illegal migrants, ignoring the southern border crisis and vilifying ICE officers.
D.C. government employee charged with murder in I-695 crash that killed police officer
Federal prosecutors said this weekend they have filed murder charges against a D.C. government employee who hit a Metropolitan Police Officer with his car and mortally wounded him days before Christmas.
Minneapolis woman fatally shot by federal agent reportedly received anti-ICE training
Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by a federal agent, was reportedly associated with an anti-ICE coalition to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
D.C. man faces second-degree murder charge, accused of causing crash that left pedestrian dead
A District man has been charged with murder after a crash at the intersection of 16th and L Streets NW that killed a pedestrian and left him and two others injured.
Vance says ICE officer’s fatal shooting of victim in Minneapolis was ‘tragedy of her own making’
The White House rejected Democrats’ demands to pull immigration enforcement out of Minnesota in the wake of the ICE shooting this week, saying that would “give in to terrorism,” and blamed sanctuary city politicians for encouraging the victim to confront officers.
Automobiles become weapons for anti-ICE protesters
For activists looking to hinder ICE arrests, motor vehicles have become the tool of choice.
Minnesota’s state investigators withdraw from probe into ICE shooting
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday it has pulled out of what had been a joint probe with the FBI into this week’s ICE-involved shooting, saying it felt it was being cut out of the investigation.
Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city
The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.
