A protest outside a San Francisco federal courthouse this week devolved into a violent mob attack, with four ICE agents punched, pepper-sprayed, and ambushed. One U.S. citizen, armed with a knife, now stands federally charged after allegedly slashing a government vehicle’s tires and threatening to stab an officer and go after his family.
This is not a story about a protest that got out of hand. It is a story about a direct and violent assault on federal law enforcement and the rule of law itself.
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What did you expect with someone Like Newsom running the State. He should be protecting the people of the state, but instead HE IS ENCOURAGING the act of violence. The people don't understand that he does NOT care about them, but only about his own Image. His ego is so big I'm just waiting for him to explode! The sad part is those people are the ones who will end up paying the price while Newsom continues to see himself as a GOD! They deserve a Better Governor.
Newsome is a scumbag. He isn’t going to do anything that’s good. Why is he still in the governor’s office? We tolerate way too much bullshit from criminals and that’s from democrats too!
young thugs need to be sent to another country to see and find out how Great America is. Or swap them for an illegal haha
If you keep doing the same thing over and over you don't get a different result. Newsom is still there because people keep voting for him.
It’s unfortunate, but predictable, such an event would happened. If you send armed, masked police into people’s neighborhoods to capture their family and friends you should anticipate violent reactions. When officers of the law look like and act like threats to people they will naturally react in a similar manner. Be prepared for escalation of such occurrences.
Your a democratic idiot
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You must be one of them. California is no longer the beautiful state it used to be, but a catch hole for people running from the law. The sad part is, the innocent will suffer for it. Gene, if your governor was doing his job this wouldn't be the case. Newsom incited this. That was his plan all along. Soon California will no longer be the Great state it once was. Don't worry with Newsom in control you can be re-assured your taxes will keep rising while you towns and cities will be destroyed. So busy worrying about ME, ME, Me that he doesn't have time to focus on YOU!
Also, might want to find out where all the money he gets for the people goes. I am sure they aren't getting it. Check his banking onshore and offshore acct.
They maybe masked,but they can be identified as ICE agents. They are masked because protesters have posted their identity for them and their families to be attacked. It's my understanding that they are not armed, which is part of their problem when they are attacked. You can be against somethig, but the reesons you give are not valid.
It's unfortunate Gene, maybe you see it maybe you don't, but the reason they are masked is exactly because they don't want anyone to know who thier families are. Thier families would be targeted as well and that is not cool
You’re a democrat imbecile. Get out of our country.
Anyone who attacks federal agents with intent to kill should go to federal prison.
This must never be tolerated!
The officers are clearly wearing vests telling you who they are. These people that get in the way should be arrested for obstruction and thrown in jail. All of them. These agents are enforcing our nations laws. Just doing their jobs.
So far they've gotten away with everything thing
I don’t care where you stand on the illegals in this country. It is NEVER okay to attack anyone. Get your heads out of your butts, grow up, and be productive American citizens. Law enforcement is a NECESSITY in this country. Let them do their jobs without interference.
The ice agents should be allowed to use their weapons rather than be attacked
LOOKS LIKE OUR WORLD IS COMING TO AN END.
AMERICANS ARE GOING HUNGRY BECAUSE OF TRUMPS FUCKIN TARIFFS .
HE IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE. OUR PRODUCE IS ROTTING IN THE FIELDS,
Well then if Americans are going hungry maybe you should be picking all the crops that are just rotting away in the fields. Also, the tariffs have not been in place that long and are minimal to us. THINK before you speak! Also, it's August and our crops are just coming in. I just hate people who blow things out of control.
Audrey You are a drama Queen! Get a job and maybe you won't have so much time on your hands.
well frankly it is time for the young legal American citizens to start working in the field or where needed. what you are actually stating that this country need illegal slave immigrants and in fact it does not legal citizens need to step up and get off the hand outs for all that are able body to work.
What in the world do tariffs have to do with the cost of food? Food prices started going up way before any Trump tariffs. As a matter of fact, some food reduction has happened since Trump took office. One example is the price of eggs. What fields are rotting? You have no idea what you're talking about.
All these people should be arrested as soon as one incident happens! They are not protesting peaceable! As the dems did from Jan 6, seek out each person involved, charge them, imprison them, take them to court, prosecute them and put them in prison! Let them lose everything as many that were falsely accused from Jan 6. They have done more damage and injured more people than Jan 6 patrons! PROSECUTE THEM AND PUT AN END TO THIS ANTI-AMERICAN BEHAVIOR AND TREASON AGAINST AMERICA AND AMERICANS!
Judy! Great response! GOD BLESS AMERICA ! anyone who is an illegal alien and is acting up, needs to go back home where you can act like an animal in your own country! GOD BLESS US ALL!
The problem is that Dems think they can do or say anything without retribution.I agree with the MAJORITY Be fore you lock them up, give them a little knock in their noggin and see if that will give them some common sense
HOMER007 There is nothing up there, just a lot of empty space! You can't help Stupid!!! I've tried;
It took 30 years to create a mentality of this violent nature and an inability to think for themselves and it began in collages in the it's. I remember it so well. It's like it was yesterday and then those students had children and the rest was history
Wishing the ICE agents a speedy recovery. Violence is not protected under the First Amendment, and it's sad that extremists think they can get away with attacking law enforcement. Let's hope justice is served and this madness stops. Laws and order must be respected for everyone's safety!
Absolutely agree. It's disheartening to see how far some people are willing to go with violence, thinking it's somehow justified…
The vote count that got him in needs to be investigated.
These protesters many appear to be paid need to be investigated and punished to the max everytime they interfere with our Ice officers or injure them also cut them off from public funding like college aid ,Sha loans etc
If convicted plus jail time
This attack on ICE agents outside a San Francisco courthouse is just plain unacceptable and a brutal assault on law and order. Hope those courageous agents recover swiftly from this horrific incident. Look, the First Amendment is not a pass to go violent; it’s about speaking our mind, not attacking folks for doing their job. These criminals treat real heroes like villains, and the media barely covers it. This is the left’s chaotic agenda at play, undermining our cops at every opportunity! We gotta stand up for those who protect our nation and say NO to this madness! #BackTheBlue
With our governor, all show and no brains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen these democrats are letting the imagrints know when ice is coming now its getting to the point where their killing our ice agents now we start voting for more ice agents this is our country and we don't want them here its now up to president Trump himself to crack down and call in for more guards.
Arrest every one of these POS Trash Thugs. They must think they're in the country they came here illegally from.
Threats might work there, because no one there has weapons but the criminals, but here, that does Not work. Thank God we have a President that puts America, and Americans First over Illegal Aliens. Charge Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas with Treason for allowing these UnVetted criminals, in this country.
This is what happens when you create an entitlement mentality and foster an us vs them mindset. I saw the beginnings of this over thirty years ago when Bill Clinton ran for his first term of president and the machinations of his campaign manager at the time James Carville; since that time it has only degraded and become more festered with each election cycle.
If ICE and Military are going to be use then they should be able to defend themselves by any means necessary to protect themselves.
These people are not protesters they are terrorists striving for insurrection.
It is past time for the authorities to meet these antagonists with deadly force.
Ice Agents Should Have Shot Them Dead
Cheaper To Dig The Hole
Toss Them In Than Flying Them Back To Wherever These Animals Came From
The first thing here is that California HAS to recall Newsom. He IS NO GOOD for the state. He can't handle the states needs. He listens to Pelosi she is a POS, then runs the state that way. He has stolen millions of dollars FROM the taxpayers to build himself a mansion. ALL of the money has come from the taxpayers and under the table thievery. If California can't see that then they deserve to get whatever happens. IF 1 officer gets killed, then the marines will be there in a heart beat
When I grew up a job for kids was at McD's and now that's a job held by adults ? Why ? Ok ve always said an awakening for many kids would be to work on a farm for at least a summer and maybe then they would realize what life is all about and that they can strive for something they want to do in life .
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This event forces us to confront a bright, unambiguous line in our constitutional order: the line that separates protected, legitimate dissent from unprotected, criminal violence.
An Assault on the Rule of Law
The details of the attack are a stark illustration of a protest crossing into a riot. As ICE agents were conducting a removal operation, a crowd of up to 20 people swarmed them. The agents were physically assaulted, and one suspect, Adrian Guerrero, allegedly made repeated, direct threats of violence while armed with a knife.
These actions are not political speech; they are felony crimes. Guerrero has been charged with assault on a federal officer and destruction of government property. This is not a matter of political disagreement; it is a matter of basic law and order.
The First Amendment is Not a Shield for Violence
This is a crucial “teaching moment” about the First Amendment. The right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances is one of our most sacred constitutional protections. It protects even harsh, offensive, and deeply critical speech directed at the government and its agents.
However, that protection is not, and has never been, absolute. The Supreme Court has been clear for over a century that the First Amendment is not a shield for violence. It does not protect “true threats” – statements that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of intent to commit an act of unlawful violence against a particular individual.
It certainly does not protect physical assault.
To punch, pepper-spray, or threaten to stab a federal officer is not an act of protest; it is a violent crime and a direct assault on the function of our constitutional government.
A Dangerous Escalation
This incident must be viewed in its broader context. According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, assaults against ICE agents have increased by a staggering 1,000%. She blames the “rhetoric vilifying our law enforcement” from “sanctuary politicians.”
While political rhetoric can create a permissive environment for extremism, the ultimate legal and moral responsibility for a violent act lies with the individual who commits it. The protesters’ underlying grievance – the controversial ICE policy of making arrests at courthouses – is a legitimate subject of intense political and legal debate.
That debate should happen in courtrooms, in legislative chambers, and at the ballot box.
It cannot, in a constitutional republic, happen with knives and pepper spray in a courthouse street. No policy disagreement, no matter how profound, can ever justify a violent, physical assault on the officers tasked with carrying out that policy.
The incident in San Francisco is a sobering reminder of the fragility of civil order. The right to protest is sacred, but it is not a license for violence. The moment a protester picks up a weapon to attack an officer of the law, they are no longer a dissenter exercising a constitutional right; they have become an assailant attacking the constitutional order itself. Upholding that bright line is a duty for every citizen who believes in both liberty and the rule of law.
We are raising a bunch of animals via our education system. Arrest them all and ship to Gitmo!