'You Almost Ran Us Over': The Lie ICE Keeps Telling
ICE officers lack training and accountability, and that’s how they behave.
“We’re well on our way to becoming a police state if current administration policies are allowed to continue,” I wrote for our April 10, 2025 newsletter, “Making America a Police State.”
This week I was reminded of what I wrote when watching video of an ICE confrontation. The video shows a masked ICE officer pointing his gun at Carolina Molina as she sat in her car recording the incident with her cellphone.
“Are you following us? Stop following us!” the officer yells.1
“You almost ran us over,” the officer then claimed.
That’s a serious charge. If Molina had tried to run over an ICE officer with her vehicle, she would have been be arrested and charged. She wasn’t.
After more exchange between Molina and the officer, Molina said, “Run you over when? I got recording! I got dashcam! I got dashcam! That’s a lie … I never tried to run you over,” at which point the officers quickly returned to their vehicles and drove off.
Molina, a licensed mental health therapist and U.S. citizen, was in the area to visit immigration lawyers for her work when she saw ICE agents taking people into custody. She rolled her window down and yelled at the officers.2 Rather than go to her appointment, she decided to turn around and leave the area. The incident occurred as she was leaving the parking lot.
A couple of points worth noting.
First, properly trained officers are taught to de-escalate situations. Pointing a gun at an unarmed, non-threatening person is the opposite of that. Officers are trained to pull their weapons only when necessary, not as a tool to threaten civilians.
Second, the “you tried to hit me” claim is one we see repeatedly with ICE. This is now one of many cases showing ICE officers make that claim, and use that false claim as justification for the use of force. Of course there is the widely reported killing of Renee Good, but here are some others you may have missed.
In August 2025, Francisco Longoria was driving with his son and son-in-law when he was pulled over by four masked ICE and CBP agents in an unmarked vehicle. One agent smashed his window (without a warrant) and punched Longoria in the face, while another agent broke the passenger window. With the road ahead clear, Longoria hit the gas. The agents fired three shots at the vehicle. After being accused of trying to hit the officers with his vehicle, the charges were later dropped thanks to video evidence.
In February 2025, ICE agents in Utah accused Brandon Colin of nearly hitting them with his vehicle. Little did they know that a nearby business had video footage of the incident showing Colin did no such thing.
In March 2025, ICE shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, initially claiming that Martinez “intentionally ran over” an ICE agent. Body cam footage later showed that was false. Martinez was stopped or moving very slowly when he was shot.
In December 2025, ICE arrested Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero, accusing him of hitting an officer with his vehicle and ramming into another ICE vehicle, among other assault charges. Romero’s lawyer noted that the dismissal came after the judge in the case ordered DOJ to release evidence of these accusations, including evidence from the officers’ cellphones. The judge dismissed the case “with prejudice,” which means prosecutors agreed to never bring the case again.
A review by The Guardian found that of the 26 cases which DHS accused suspects of vehicle attacks, 15 of them never faced criminal charges, eight had their charges dismissed, one case is pending, one was convicted of “destruction of government property” but acquitted of the assault charge, and one pled guilty.
One likely reason ICE officers behave with impunity is they know they can get away with it. ICE officers who misbehave aren’t being investigated and rarely face consequences. On July 19, 2026, The New York Times reported that federal agents were told that the FBI would no longer investigate incidents of reported violent encounters with civilians. Instead, these encounters would be investigated by a division within ICE, leaving ICE to investigate itself. (DHS and DOJ denied this change has occurred.)
Another contributing factor is the inadequate training ICE officers receive. In February, former ICE instructor Ryan Schwank testified that the training was “deficient, defective, and broken.”
“DHS told the public the new cadets receive all the training they need to perform their duties, that no critical material or standards have been cut. This is a lie,” Schwank said. “ICE made the program shorter, and they removed so many essential parts that what remains is a dangerous husk.”
Folks on my side of the political spectrum tend to distrust government officials unless they’re law enforcement. As a reminder to my fellow conservatives, we should be suspicious of government authority because it can be dangerous when wielded by fallible humans. But there is no law enforcement exception to this guidance, most especially when the law enforcement in question has been caught in so many lies.
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Following an ICE vehicle from a safe distance is not illegal.
Yelling at an ICE officer is also not illegal.
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