New body camera footage reveals the chaotic moments when federal immigration agents detained two parents outside an East Baltimore elementary school, despite local police warnings that agents were prohibited from entering school property under city law.
Confrontation Outside Elementary School
On June 11, federal immigration officers arrested a couple while they dropped off their daughter at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School. Body camera video from Baltimore police shows officers informing ICE agents they were not permitted on school grounds. A March ordinance passed by Baltimore’s city council explicitly prohibits local law enforcement from cooperating with immigration authorities, creating jurisdictional tension during the arrest.
The couple’s attorneys describe a troubling sequence of events that began around 7 a.m. after the parents left a local coffee shop. According to legal counsel, an unmarked vehicle carrying immigration agents attempted to stop them near Dundalk Avenue and O’Donnell Street. The agents allegedly cut off the family’s SUV and braked suddenly, blocking their path.
Competing Accounts Of Arrest
The Department of Homeland Security claims the father refused lawful commands, violently resisted arrest, and used his vehicle to evade officers, dragging an ICE agent in the process. Defense attorneys paint a different picture, stating that men dressed entirely in black exited the unmarked vehicle with drawn weapons and shattered the driver’s side window. One parent allegedly received no questioning until reaching an ICE detention facility in downtown Baltimore.
DHS initially alleged the mother punched officers during the confrontation. However, a subsequent affidavit walked back this claim, describing only minimal physical resistance. This discrepancy became a focal point during court proceedings, where a judge expressed serious concerns about the arrest procedures.
Judicial Rebuke And Federal Response
During a court hearing, the presiding judge called the case a stomach churner and ruled that ICE lacked probable cause to arrest the father outside the school. The judge further stated that immigration officers failed to follow established procedures designed to ensure due process rights. DHS defended its actions by emphasizing that nearly 70 percent of ICE arrests involve individuals charged or convicted of crimes in the United States. The agency highlighted its mission to remove dangerous criminals from communities, citing the administration’s commitment to public safety and immigration enforcement.
What This Means
This incident highlights escalating conflicts between local sanctuary policies and federal immigration enforcement. Baltimore’s prohibition on police cooperation with ICE represents a growing trend in urban jurisdictions, creating legal gray areas when federal agents operate independently. The judicial criticism of arrest procedures may influence future immigration enforcement tactics near protected locations like schools.
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Cbsnews: New video shows Baltimore police respond as ICE agents detain parents outside school
If you are illegal, you go. PERIOD
Agree . . .
Agree
Big or small deport them all
If a law does not apply to everyone, then it applies to no one.
When are these local leos going to understand federal law trumps local law and ordnance. The individuals being arrested were fully aware of their legal status. Local law enforcement not cooperating with federal agents make these situations.
When is Congress going to outlaw sanctuary cities, etc? This is rediculous.
Soros appointed Judges and city councils who are out to destroy America must be stopped, They should not be able to block ICE from doing its work in protecting America from being invaded by illegals
I’d prefer the ones that committed crimes like theft, rape, home invasion be dumped on some other continent.
This includes the gangbangers, drug dealers, dunk divers.. domestic abusers.
That’s something like 1/4.
Sadly, if they are here illegally they probably need to go.
Our GOV is offering free tickets to fly anywhere, it’s cheaper than arresting and holding.
rapists and murderers should be freed/dumped in the ocean.
If they can swim 75 miles they are given a clean record.
Laws for thee not for we( democraps).
Anyone including local police who obstruct legal arrest by federal law enforcement officers should be arrested and put before grand jury and if charged put on trial and if convicted placed in general population.
If ICE is arresting an illegal this is not the school, citizens, or radical and crooked lawyers and judges place to step in or misuse the law to attempt to stop it!! They are doing their job! The job the people of this country hired them to do, their job the President of our country directed them to do!! Those who did this need to also be arrested for obstructing justice and putting all Americans and their families in danger!!!
They should have self deported when they had the chance. No sympathy here!
Many individual “immigrants” ARE doing things legally; the immigration department has it’s own specific timetable & as far as ICE & the current administration are concerned, it would appear, that is unimportant. It certainly doesn’t stop ICE goons from jumping on & pulling out those at the immigration department, who are following the legal procedures correctly! And even IF they have valid visas or green cards, that has not & does not stop ICE from violently apprehending, detaining & mistreating people who ARE LEGAL!
Also, please tell me why ICE is apprehending, detaining & using little children as bait? They are the innocent victims in all of this.
Many individual “immigrants” ARE doing things legally; the immigration department has it’s own specific timetable & as far as ICE & the current administration are concerned, it would appear, that is unimportant. It certainly doesn’t stop ICE goons from jumping on & pulling out those at the immigration department, who are following the legal procedures correctly! And even IF they have valid visas or green cards, that has not & does not stop ICE from violently apprehending, detaining & mistreating people who ARE LEGAL!
Also, please tell me why ICE is apprehending, detaining & using little children as bait? They are the innocent victims in all of this.
this due process bull sxxt is costing billions of dollars when is the public going to wake up, due process is for usa citizens.