Denver Mayor Mike Johnston orders ICE agent detention for excessive force

Denver Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston announced an executive order Thursday instructing city officials to arrest ICE agents deemed to have used excessive force or “assaulted, shot or killed” civilians in the Mile High City.

The announcement comes weeks after Philadelphia’s attorney general made headlines by comparing ICE agents to Adolf Hitler’s Geheime Staatspolizei and warned, as Johnston is now doing, of similar repercussions yet to be implemented.

“To protect Denver, our first responders will always provide life-saving aid to anyone injured, no matter who injured them,” Johnston said on the steps of city hall downtown. he said.

“No ICE officer can stop us from saving someone’s life. To protect Denver, if we see any ICE officer using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will intervene to detain that officer and remove him or her from the situation,” he said, adding that federal agents should be held to the same standard as city police officers.

“No matter what the federal government does, we will not abdicate our responsibility to prosecute crime in our city.”

Johnston said the order was drafted by his assigned city attorney, Michiko “Miko” Brown.

Brown is a descendant of Japanese Americans who were mass interned and sent to internment camps during World War II under an executive order signed by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt, he said.

Pointing to the courthouse behind him, Johnston said that it was named after former Colorado Republican Governor Ralph Carr.

In 1942, Carr took a different stance than many Western state governors and opposed Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans in the region.

Johnston says he won’t abide by ‘don’t miss’ rule[s]”No one will have to worry if their father is kidnapped when he goes to the store,” he said.

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“[I]We have proven time and time again that we are stronger than any obstacle we face in Denver because we are a city that turns to each other, not each other. Through fires and floods, booms and busts, tournaments and raids, we have remained true to the values ​​of the West: All are welcome. They are all valued. They’re all under protection.”

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Krasner recently took to the podium in Penn Square to denounce ICE as “a small group of Nazi wannabes” and vowed, “If we have to hunt you down like they’ve been hunting Nazis for decades, we’re going to find your identities.”

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Those remarks prompted a congressional warning, with House Intelligence Committee member Greg Steube, R-Fla., asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Krasner’s remarks under a federal law that carries up to 10-year felonies for threatening federal officers.

Fox News Digital has reached out to DHS for comment.

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