All of the above will result in chaotic encounters that often end badly (there are still more things below that contribute to this). In fact, this year alone there have been 50 cases of windows broken by officers who often use a kind of pickaxe suitable for this task. This makes me think that at a level Within ICE, there is a general spirit that encourages aggressiveness and inflexibility toward migrants, and at the same time, there is a lack of critical scrutiny of agent actions. These agents often seem to operate constantly on the edge of the law, and professionalism tends to be diluted with such an approach.
The memorandum amendment itself is quite ambiguous (when it shouldn't be, since its supposed objective was to limit the use of force given the various fatal incidents that had been occurring). The 2023 ICE memorandum established a policy that agents should "use force only when no reasonably effective, safe, and feasible alternative appears to exist."
Have no idea what their hiring practices are, however, as you said, it probably attracts ("encourages') a certain mindset - with some honorable and patriotic that do not like what they see, and some of a different nature all together (see below quote).
On the memorandum, that is reasonable for any agency where force might be employed. It also gets employed less and less and the reasons may be so different (was reminded that in WWI vs. WWII, solders did not go for kill shots each time, they purposely missed and the percentage of not missing climbed incrementally, so by the time Vietnam and later Iraq came around, killing shots became second nature). Perhaps the reason now that it is all enhanced, is the generational rise of video game screen killing (or from HARRP), or the types of movies' or by men (largely) who have hormonal chemistry and their mental balance out of synch - a long list of possibilities.
@SOTTREADER, without you adding to your post, nothing needed be said other than it was a bloody horrible needless ending.
Nov 2025:
Q: (Niall) What's the percentage of psychopaths in the USA? [We last asked in 2010 and the answer was 23%]
A: 24
Q: (L)So it's not gone up that much.
(Niall) No. The population has exploded, though.
(L) But the population has exploded, yeah. That's a lot!
(Niall) That's a lot. In the US, that's a hundred million psychopaths.
(L) Yeah.
(Niall) Well, we're not sure what "psychopath" is to the Cs, though.
And it is the exploding population fueled by migration (manufactured as it is), where even if a small percentage of crazies come in, and they have, doing horrible things (no one can deny the raping of woman and children, the woman in the subway - the overall entropy of the situation), you just can't hid this. One side wants it hidden - saying just go away, there is nothing to see here, while their society crumples around them. The other side wants them out. When protests happen in this context, it will get worse until both sides back off and get a handle on it, although that is not likely to happen anytime soon.
The quote above is chilling, considering that each one can pull in followers; left or right. This is very bad sign.
Of the cops taking the guy down and then out, if people think in this heightened time that they are going to shout and scream at authoritarians with guns, while citing their own rights (1st and 2nd worth defending in many eyes), again, conflict of this type is going to keep increasing (while defending) the resolves of each side.
In the scrum with Alex, there will always be an authoritarian who thinks its fine to fire (5 x boom rapid shots) to a guy already down - what type of a human does that (this is beyond the fright/flight stage)?
People have said 'they' in reference to the murder of Alex Pretti, yet of all the ICE in that situation, they did not each appear to have murder on their minds or to even have drawn their weapons - yet the one guy appeared to do just that, by his actions (obviously just opinion).
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