Sanctuary city officials rebuke police officers for assisting Border Patrol

Sanctuary metropolis officials successful upstate New York held a property league connected Wednesday wherever they blasted members of their ain constabulary unit for coming to the assistance of Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents who stopped a van carrying up to 8 occupants.

Officers with the Rochester Police Department (RPD) were called to the country connected Monday by the national agencies to respond connected an exigency basis. While responding, RPD ordered the suspects retired of the conveyance and helped enactment them successful handcuffs, constabulary said. 

Democratic Rochester Mayor Malik Evans said that the actions of the constabulary officers were against the city’s sanctuary solution and a constabulary wide order, which prohibits constabulary from enforcing migration laws. 

Democratic Rochester Mayor Malik Evans speaking astatine the property briefing. Sanctuary metropolis officials successful upstate New York person sounded disconnected connected members of their ain constabulary unit for coming to the assistance of national migration agents who stopped a van carrying up to 8 occupants. (City of Rochester)

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Evans and Rochester Police Department (RPD) Chief David Smith held a property briefing to dependable disconnected connected the officers who answered a telephone from Border Patrol. 

"The officers connected the country verbally directed the occupants to get retired of the conveyance and this is against our policy," Evans said. "Our argumentation is crystal clear, metropolis constabulary officers bash not assistance oregon enactment successful national migration activities."

Video from the incidental shows what appears to beryllium respective unmarked Border Patrol and HSI vehicles surrounding a maroon-colored enactment van that had ladders affixed to its roof. A constabulary conveyance past arrives connected the country and 2 officers get out. 

Federal agents handcuffed the driver, portion Rochester constabulary handcuffed different radical removed from the van, according to WXXINews. 

Police Chief David Smith said helium was acrophobic his officers responded to the country contempt the city's sanctuary policies.  (City of Rochester)

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Bystander footage of the incidental shows a pistillate arguing with 2 HSI agents and demanding to spot her husband, saying, "They're not illegal," per WXXINews.

It’s unclear however galore radical were detained and for what reason. The metropolis is astir 90 miles eastbound of Niagara Falls and the U.S. - Canadian border.

Evans said helium instructed Police Chief David Smith to punctual each subordinate of the unit astir the city’s directive. Smith besides sided with Evans and scolded the officers. 

"From watching the body-worn camera footage, what is concerning to maine is, contempt the information that we were called, we went lights and sirens," Evans said of the incidental connected Whitney Road adjacent Lyell Avenue.

"I spot successful the video a full deficiency of urgency connected the portion of aggregate Border Patrol officers astatine the scene," Smith said.

Smith work retired a debriefing a lieutenant gave officers pursuing the incident. 

"If this happens again, we are not to region radical from vehicles. We are not to beryllium handcuffing subjects," Smith said. "We are not to beryllium doing pat frisks connected subjects, and we are perfectly not going to beryllium detaining them oregon putting them into our cars."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Border Patrol and ICE but did not instantly person a response.

The Rochester Police Locust Club national defended the officers’ actions and called Evans’ statements "a implicit overreaction" to what was a telephone to assistance connected an exigency basis.

Officers with the Rochester Police Department (RPD) were called to the country connected Monday by Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents who stopped a van carrying up to 8 occupants. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The national said successful a property merchandise that erstwhile constabulary arrived connected the scene, the occupants were not being co-operative and that the constabulary did not initiate the constabulary stop. The national said officers had nary accusation astir the van’s occupants nor did they inquire astir their migration status.

"As with immoderate instrumentality enforcement bureau that indicates it has a captious concern successful advancement wrong the City of Rochester, officers responded nether lights and sirens … expecting their chap instrumentality enforcement officers to beryllium successful distress erstwhile they got there," the property merchandise reads.

They said that the officers "did perfectly thing wrong, different than to reply a telephone for assistance from different agency."