It’s wealthy of Mayor Michelle Wu to demonize Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers as “secret police” when she leads the least clear administration in trendy Boston historical past.
She gained’t launch something about her personal police. We’re nonetheless ready for the police report on the deadly Hyde Park bus accident.
Wu’s administration, particularly Boston Police, gained’t even adjust to the general public information regulation, selectively releases physique digicam footage of arrests and arbitrarily redacts police experiences.
Then she has the gall to say ICE is the key police.
“Individuals are terrified for his or her lives and for his or her neighbors,” Wu stated throughout a go to to one in every of her “protected” locations – public radio final Friday. “People getting snatched off the streets by secret police who’re sporting masks, who can supply no justification for why sure individuals are being taken after which detained.”
Wu’s feedback should have stung U.S. Legal professional Leah Foley, although she waited for a couple of days to reply, accusing the mayor of drumming up “false narratives” about what ICE does.
“Referring to federal brokers as ‘secret police’ is offensive,” Foley stated within the video posted on X. “There are not any secret police. ICE brokers, together with different federal regulation enforcement companions, are making immigration arrests. That’s no secret. They’re arresting people who’re right here illegally, which is a violation of federal regulation. Each enforcement motion is carried out throughout the bounds of the Structure and our legal guidelines with oversight, authorized justification and accountability. To say in any other case is a gross misrepresentation and a disservice to the general public.”
And there’s a motive ICE brokers should put on masks. It’s as a result of Democratic activists are doxxing them and their households, making a harmful scenario.
Wu ought to know higher. She presides over her personal police division, which additionally does a outstanding job given the hoops and howls of protests they have to endure.
However good to know Wu has not misplaced her “defund the police” extremist views on regulation enforcement, which she has intentionally hid ever since she was elected mayor and pretended to be a buddy of police.
Even Gov. Maura Healey hasn’t gone this far – equating ICE to some form of Nazi police pressure sneaking round clutching harmless folks in the course of the night time.
Wu has now made ICE brokers a goal of potential violence, inciting the general public, which Foley rightly identified in a video she launched on Wednesday.
If an ICE agent – who has the facility of arrest and is simply doing their job implementing the regulation – will get injured or threatened it’s now on Wu.
The query is, at what level will rank and file Boston cops communicate out?
They’re watching their commander-in-chief undercut regulation enforcement and put brokers at risk due to her political opportunism.
However solely Foley has the braveness to problem Wu and ensure her rhetoric doesn’t go unchallenged. It’s a refreshing change from previous U.S. attorneys like Rachael Rollins.
Foley has demonstrated she’s not a political hack or a pushover.
If solely Boston cops had the identical braveness to tackle Wu – although they’d most likely be suspended in the event that they tried.
