Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal issued forceful public statements warning Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that any crimes committed in the city would be met with arrests, prosecutions, and prison sentences, escalating tensions between local officials and federal immigration authorities.
Krasner, who has received backing from billionaire George Soros, said during public remarks that his office would not hesitate to prosecute ICE agents if they broke the law while operating in Philadelphia.
He emphasized that state court convictions could not be pardoned by President Donald Trump and warned that offenders would face incarceration.
“If any law enforcement agent, any ice agent, is going to come to Philly to commit crimes, then you can get the f out of here, because if you do that here, I will charge you with those crimes,” Krasner said.
“You will be arrested, you will stand trial. You will be convicted, whether it’s in state or federal court. It’s my office prosecuting it. That’s how the law works, and you will do your time, because Donald Trump cannot pardon you for a state court conviction.”
Krasner said his message applied broadly to all armed federal personnel operating in the city.
“Do you hear me? ICE agents, do you hear me? National Guard, do you hear me? Military you’re going to jail,” he said.
“If you commit crimes in the city of Philadelphia, you will be accountable. The law applies to all of you.”
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He added that his remarks were not directed at what he described as ethical officers.
“I know that there are honest, decent, moral law enforcement officers out there by the bushel, including in ice,” Krasner said.
“This is not for you. This is for any one of your colleagues who thinks they are above the law.”
Sheriff Rochelle Bilal echoed and expanded on Krasner’s position during her own public remarks, in which she sharply criticized ICE and questioned the legitimacy of its agents.
Bilal referenced the death of Renee Good and said the incident should not have occurred.
“Good afternoon. I’m Rochelle Bilal, the sheriff for the city and county of Philadelphia, and I say her name, Renee Good. Renee Good. Renee Good. This should not have happened, but we’re here today,” Bilal said.
Bilal repeatedly referred to ICE agents as illegitimate and accused them of criminal conduct.
“Let know that law enforcement professionals real ones, not the fake made up ice probably Trumps a new army to attack citizens of the United States,” she said.
“Did you hear what I said? No. Law enforcement professional wears a mask. None, none.”
She said officers concealing their identities while operating in communities should expect arrests.
“Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime, um, thank God for our district attorney, Larry Krasner, who said he’s going to lock him up,” Bilal said.
“And I’m saying now we are not going to whisk you away for them to hide your identity, because when you do it there, you get arrested.”
Bilal said ICE agents would not receive special treatment in Philadelphia.
“There, no whisk away for them to hide you. None of that here, none of that here,” she said.
She accused ICE of engaging in conduct she said real law enforcement officers would never carry out.
“Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles, not saying fleeing because she wasn’t fleeing she was getting out of the way,” Bilal said.
“Law enforcement professionals do not stand in front of moving vehicles invoking an action that is illegal.”
Bilal said she stood with Krasner in opposing ICE operations in the city.
“So we stand here today with all those who stand against the made up fake, what you can call ice professional law enforcement, I don’t call them, none of that,” she said.
“I call them made up fake. Want to be law enforcement, because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law.”
She warned ICE agents that arrests would follow any crimes committed in Philadelphia.
“If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide,” Bilal said.
“Nobody will wish you off. You don’t want this smoke, because we will bring it to you.”
Bilal also claimed federal officials could not shield agents from prosecution.
“And the fake, whatever they call him, because I can’t put I can’t say the name, but the criminal in the White House would not be able to keep you from going to jail,” she said.
She concluded by stating that most law enforcement officers work constructively with communities and that isolated actions have damaged trust.
“Law enforcement professionals around the country do their job, and we have been fighting for years to build that bridge between us and our communities,” Bilal said.
“You have one negative nut case that causes this problem, and now we all have to fight again to let people know law enforcement works with communities.”
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