What Everybody Is Missing About The Police
Chief Who Favors Illegal Aliens Over Americans
Marina Medvin
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A leftist police Chief for one of DC’s
wealthiest suburbs, Fairfax County, Virginia, announced in a press release that
an illegal immigrant was initially investigated by one of his officers for
causing a traffic collision, and after the officer was notified that the
individual was wanted by ICE, the Fairfax officer surrendered him to ICE
custody instead of setting him free. The Chief declared that this officer
violated his internal police directive that orders Fairfax County officers to
set illegal immigrants free, even if the officers are put on notice that these
individuals are wanted by ICE and even if they can lawfully detain the
individuals under Virginia law. The neoliberal Chief ordered an internal
investigation and accused his officer of misconduct, stating that this officer
“deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”
Conservatives became outraged at a Chief
punishing his officer for following Virginia law. “Based on the information
currently known, this officer did NOT violate any law. He simply violated the
liberal Chief’s sanctuary city policy and was punished for not following the
Chief’s political agenda. This Chief destroyed a young officer’s career in
order to pursue his selfish liberal ideations,” I advised Townhall for their
report on this issue. Always on the wrong end of immigration issues, Liberals
were unsurprisingly elated to applaud a Sanctuary City Utopia that does not
enforce the law with respect to illegals.
What most media commentary has missed is
the striking problem that the neoliberal Chief presented for Americans: he
suspended an officer for briefly depriving an illegal of his freedom by
detaining him until ICE arrived, but yet has never announced suspending or
investigating an officer who has deprived an American of his or her freedom
during an illegal detention or arrest. And, as a practicing Fairfax County
attorney, I can personally vouch for the fact that unconstitutional
deprivations of freedom have certainly taken place in Fairfax County, and these
violations were remedied by the Court, but not by the police department.
“When was the last time that Fairfax County
disciplined an officer for violating the rights of an American? Every time a
lawyer wins a Motion to Suppress, it means that a defendant’s rights were
violated. Yet, the responsible officers do not get publicly disciplined, if at
all,” I advised the senior editor of Townhall for his article on this issue.
This is a very important point to digest.
When an accused prevails on a Motion to Suppress, it indicates that his Fourth
Amendment rights have been violated by the arresting or detaining officer. But
does this neoliberal Chief care about his officers violating constitutional
rights, true freedom violations? That question can only be answered by asking
another question: has this Chief ever suspended and investigated an officer for
violating the constitutional rights of an American? Does this Chief even have a
directive on how to re-educate a police officer on constitutional rights when
an officer’s arrest or detention was deemed unlawful in court? According to
trusted sources, the answer is no, to both of these questions.
Moreover, the deprivation of freedom under
the Constitution is a violation of freedom that has been recognized by American
courts for centuries, the issue that defines our criminal justice system. The
deprivation of “freedom” that the neoliberal Chief found unacceptable, however,
is a freedom that this Chief personally bestowed upon a group of people that he
personally and politically favors, a made-up anti-law-enforcement sanctuary
city “freedom.”
By not redressing the constitutional
violations of American defendants and only enforcing the politically-motivated
“rights” of illegal immigrants, this Chief, undeniably, creates favoritism in
his department for illegal immigrants over Americans. This is discriminatory,
disgraceful, and wrong.
