A young person in Pittsburgh was pressured to battle a person armed with a knife after he allegedly broke into the teenager’s household house and falsely claimed to be an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent earlier than making an attempt to steal some electronics, together with a PlayStation console.
As reported by local news network WTAE 4, in keeping with a lately filed legal grievance, 35-year-old William Gregory allegedly broke right into a home within the Beltzhoover neighborhood exterior of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and started shouting that he was an ICE agent and demanded that the reportedly Hispanic household present him figuring out paperwork. He was carrying a big pocket knife and threatened a 17-year-old boy dwelling within the house as he tried to steal a PlayStation console and grabbed the boy’s telephone. The outlet didn’t specify what sort of PlayStation was almost stolen by the robber.
Police report that {the teenager} fought again towards the pretend ICE agent and finally punched Gregory within the face onerous sufficient to knock him out chilly. Police later arrived on the scene and located the intruder nonetheless unconscious.
“I consider that could be a Hispanic house, you realize, and our neighborhood may be very various,” Crystal Calloway, who lives subsequent door to the home the place the theft occurred, informed WTAE 4. She additionally informed the outlet that she was involved about somebody pretending to be a part of ICE.
Gregory has been charged with ethnic intimidation and housebreaking and is presently in jail. He was additionally needed for a earlier theft cost.
“It’s an ideal factor that the younger man, his adrenaline went by means of going and motion and went to defend his household, you realize, thank goodness for that,” mentioned Calloway.
As ICE continues to ship 1000’s of masked and violent officers into states like Minnesota, we now have seen many individuals injured by their aggressive ways. On January 7, Renée Good was fatally shot by ICE agent Johnathan Ross. The Division of Homeland Safety and federal officers declare Good hit the officer together with her automotive, however many information companies and consultants who’ve seen the footage dispute this declare.
This incident in Pittsburgh isn’t the primary instance of a legal claiming to be an ICE agent to do nefarious actions. ICE brokers persevering with to behave recklessly and dangerously whereas typically hiding their identities has made it straightforward for some unhealthy actors to fake to be ICE brokers, as seen in Texas earlier this month. Maybe we shouldn’t have 1000’s of armed, masked goons tossing teenagers and harmless folks round?
