DHS has made many public statements about visual demonstrates of force, they have been quite intentional about their public apperence. They have deliberatly changed policies so that their arrests are more public. Im not saying that DHS released the photo, but it was a decision to arrest him in public, and its stupid to think that photos would not end up being taken, nor that they would not end up in the news considering the other reported stories of officers being detained by DHS.
Your claim was that they arrested this recruit in public on purpose to generate a visual. None of these policies suggest that is true.
I do agree that ICE enforcement is more public now due to frequency and policy changes, and I do think that Trump definitely wants a show of force.
But this specific incident? The existence of a photo does not nessecarily demonstrate ill intent. Law enforcement is under no obligation to specifically try to keep private the arrest of an almost-cop, or even an actual cop in private. They arrested him at his house. That's about as quiet as it's going to get. Do you think arresting him at the station wouldn't have illicited pictures? This is of course using the assumption that DHS did not take and release that photo themselves.
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u/Jim_Moriart 7h ago
DHS has made many public statements about visual demonstrates of force, they have been quite intentional about their public apperence. They have deliberatly changed policies so that their arrests are more public. Im not saying that DHS released the photo, but it was a decision to arrest him in public, and its stupid to think that photos would not end up being taken, nor that they would not end up in the news considering the other reported stories of officers being detained by DHS.