Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal sent a firm warning to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they shouldn’t expect brotherly love if they attempt to operate in her city in the way they’re conducting themselves in Minnesota.
Bilal started a fiery press conference on Thursday by having everyone in attendance say the name of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by a masked ICE agent on Wednesday, and calling those officers “made-up, fake, wannabe” law enforcement operating under “Trump’s new army.”
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask. None,” she said.
Veteran ICE agent Jonathan Ross is accused of shooting the 37-year-old mother of three as she tried to drive away during a chaotic traffic encounter. Trump administration officials contend Ross acted in self-defense. He has not been charged with a crime.
“Law enforcement professionals do not shoot at moving vehicles. I’m 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 insisted that her officers will arrest any ICE agents who come into her city and violate the law, and that Philadelphia prosecutors will charge them.
“If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide,” she warned. “You don’t want this smoke, ’cause we will bring it … [and] the criminal in the White House will not be able to keep you from going to jail.”
Her reference was to President Trump, who was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying New York business records in 2024 before being elected again later that year.
Officials in Minnesota have called for ICE agents to “get the f— out of Minneapolis.” There are believed to be more than 2,000 agents deployed there.
Minnesota authorities said Thursday that the FBI, headed by MAGA loyalist Kash Patel, would take charge of the investigation into Wednesday’s shooting.
