ICE fires first shot.

[nakedfrog]

Too fat for the goon squad is frankly hilarious.

https://bsky.app/profile/nickmiroff.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3m3nrlrswys2d

Heh.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.

That's, uh... those don't seem like real stringent requirements.

Other highlights from the article.

"The academy’s standards have already been eased to boost recruitment, he said, and the new parameters “should be the minimum for any officer.” He and others, none of whom were authorized to speak with reporters, told me that agency veterans are concerned about the quality of the new recruits being fast-tracked onto the street to meet Trump’s hiring goals.
...
An email from ICE headquarters to the agency’s top officials on October 5 lamented that “a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates” had been showing up to the academy; they had “misrepresented” their physical condition on application forms. The email directed leaders at ICE’s field offices to conduct preliminary fitness exams with new recruits before sending them to the academy.

“We all know the self-certification method has failed,” Ralph Ferguson, an operations official at ICE headquarters, wrote.
...
[Tricia McLaughlin] said DHS expects to fill 85 percent of new deportation-officer positions with experienced law-enforcement officials whom they can fast-track. Although they will not be required to pass a fitness test at the ICE academy, “they remain subject to medical, fitness, and background requirements,” McLaughlin wrote.
...
The Trump administration has slashed the amount of time that new ICE recruits spend at the federal-law-enforcement training academy in Georgia, from roughly four months to eight weeks. Some of the fresh hires have dropped out of the academy after flunking exams on immigration law and Fourth Amendment limits on officers’ search authority, one official told me. But the fitness test has been the biggest nemesis to the new recruits. The 1.5-mile run, in particular, has toppled more trainees than any other requirement, two officials said.

All told, it sounds like things are going about how one might expect.

 

[brycejones]

HHS and DoJ incompetence continues:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/us/chicago-suv-ramming-case-update

Failing to preserve evidence in the SUV ramming case.

 

[KMFJD]

https://bsky.app/profile/kktv.com%2Fpost%2F3m3q2kltqqk22

just take a wild guess on how he was shot ....

/only the dumbest

 

[Brainonska511]

https://bsky.app/profile/kktv.com%2Fpost%2F3m3q2kltqqk22

just take a wild guess on how he was shot ....

/only the dumbest

They really buried the lede there.

 

[nakedfrog]

https://bsky.app/profile/kktv.com%2Fpost%2F3m3q2kltqqk22

just take a wild guess on how he was shot ....

/only the dumbest

I predicted "own goal" and wouldn't you know it...

(to save everyone else the trip)

A law enforcement source told CNN a suspect apparently rammed a car into a vehicle that was part of a team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and U.S. Marshals conducting an immigration enforcement operation.

According to CNN, investigators believe an ICE officer approached the suspect’s car and smashed the window with their service weapon. CNN’s source reported that it is believed the agent’s weapon discharged while they attempted to grab the suspect, striking both the suspect and a deputy U.S. Marshal.

KCAL reported the suspect was shot in the elbow, and the deputy U.S. Marshal was struck in the hand.

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say

A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

www.kktv.com

 

[nickqt]

They really buried the lede there.

The give away is the use of the passive voice.

Instead of, "Secret Police negligently shoots suspect and US Marshal", we get "US Marshal shot".

Which is 100% intended, because some shitbrain MAGA dogfucker is going to cobble together most of that headline after extensively using all of their phonics skills and reasonably assume some libtard terrorist done did shot a police officer.

 

[KMFJD]

interesting point raised here on what's coming next (H2A abuse , administration has just made some changes)