On MSNBC's “Briefing” Thursday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) said ICE agents should be charged with violating local and state laws.
Host Jen Psaki said: “You said on Sunday that you are considering prosecuting ICE agents who break the law. What can you tell us about that? What would that look like?”
Pritzker said, “We don't know if anyone will be prosecuted at the federal level. So we're looking at all the options at the local level with county prosecutors, with attorneys general, to go after people when they break Illinois law, when they break local law. And, and we think that they, you know, when they drive through an area, somebody yells at them, and they decide to just throwing a tear gas canister out of a car as they pass someone driving on the side of the road, which I think I know is a violation of Illinois law. And so the question is, can we hold officers, agents accountable when they do something like this? If it was a police officer, we could, you know, or me, or just an ordinary person throw, you know, a canister of tear gas out a window at people, we could hold them accountable. So it looks like they should be held accountable for violating local and state laws.”
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