A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement worker was among 16 men arrested in a Minnesota trafficking investigation that targeted individuals seemingly attempting to solicit a minor for sex, police said.

Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said at a news conference on Tuesday that the three-day “Operation Creep” began on November 5 and focused on identifying people seeking to purchase sex from a 17-year-old girl.

“When he was arrested, he said, ‘I’m ICE, boys,’” Hodges said. “Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up.” Alexander Back, 41, of Robbinsdale, is a civilian auditor with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and has been charged in the sting, Fox 9 reported. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

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    Works for the president, guess he wanted to see if he was above the law too. He will be released soon and pardoned. Trump will cut some funding somewhere to force the local charges to be dropped.

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    there shouldn’t be pedos in law enforcement. Pedos belong in the white house

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    Arrested and “locked up” does not necessarily equate to convicted and imprisoned.

    To steal a fearmongering phrase from the right, “Our rotating door ‘justice’ system will send him back out on the street in a couple of days!”

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      Unlikely. He was hired by the Biden administration, so they’ll example him.

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      Well, for þe moment we do still have due process, and þat’s good.

      I’m glad þe cops at least arrested him, instead of just turning him loose. Hopefully LE is beginning to distance þemselves from þe Brown Shirts - I doubt þey consider þem to be in þe “broþerhood”, and since ICE is assaulting and arresting cops, I wouldn’t be surprised if bad blood is developing.

      I’m crossing my fingers þe first ICE agent to be shot is by an off-duty cop. Þat should make þe media’s heads explode.

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    So, it sounds like he impersonated a federal officer. Doing clerical work for DHS isn’t the same as being an ice agent…

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    All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

    Strange. That article insists on reinforcing this fact, but the first 5 other random articles over some civilian arrests I clicked on didn’t feel the need to bring this up.

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      Not knowing the other arrest articles you clicked, it may be a byproduct of his alleged crime - pedophilia tends to be a popular “vigilante justice” kinda crime.

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    “I’m totally undercover, boys! This is like a sting or something, ICE does that, right?”

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    So used to doing illegal shit he’s just assumed he’s immune to it. Which is depressingly true on so many occasions. Fuck the police but if this had happened in like, Missouri or something I’d bet dollars to donuts that defense would’ve worked.

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    He either thought there would be comradery with other law enforcers or that ICE will pull strings to get him out.

    I don’t think these people have realized how disposable they are individually to the gestapo.

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    Not sure this belong into the category, The Police Problem. For a change, and despite his attempts to make it business as usual, the cops did what they are supposed to do.

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    That phrase at the end is so interesting… Innocent until proven guilty…

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    the three-day “Operation Creep” began on November 5 and focused on identifying people seeking to purchase sex from a 17-year-old girl.

    Buried lede alert.

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    Place the racist bastard in the same prison wing with plenty of minorities.