Jonah Neal, 25, had a handgun and was threatening suicide. Instead of local police, federal agents arrived at her doorstep. Within minutes of entering her home, a special agent had shot her son, Neal said. It would be hours before she found out her son was dead, she added.
The agent was with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which operates under Immigration and Customs Enforcement. HSI was sent to Memphis as part of a crime-fighting task force composed of roughly 350 federal agents and 1,450 members of the Tennessee National Guard, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. It began last fall at the direction of President Trump and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee.
At least five people — including Jonah Neal in May — have been shot by a member of the Memphis Safe Task Force. …
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In its only press release regarding Jonah Neal’s death, which was released in May, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said members of the task force encountered him “with multiple weapons inside the residence.” The TBI added, “At this time, it is not immediately clear whether Neal died as a result of the agent firing upon him or if it was self-inflicted stab wounds.”
In their first public interview since Jonah Neal died, his mother and his grandmother, Cindy Leachman Aldridge, told NPR it’s difficult to believe that a gunshot did not play a role in his death. They are asking to see any body-camera footage from that night.
So this “task force” is just ICE agents wearing a different mask - and by the looks of it the same amount of gun discipline too.
Fuck ICE, and fuck whoever sent them there in place of a mental health specialist.
Nobody ever made a song called “Fuck the Mental Health Specialist”.
No no, don’t get it mixed up. ICE specializes in brutalizing and murdering minorities, immigrants, and foreigners. Federal Agents are generalists that will brutalize and murder anyone.
Maybe, but this task force is formed from, and this agent a member of “Homeland Security Investigations (HIS)”…
And want to guess who’s in charge of HIS?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka. ICE.
So in this instance they are just ICE with a different mask on.