The new directives for ICE’s Employee Code of Conduct came in the wake of a botched arrest last week in Las Vegas by two ICE officers wearing hooded sweatshirts, with one attempting to pull a hood down over his face as onlookers recorded video. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.)

The officer attempting to make the arrest “looked like a kidnapper,” said one ICE official who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity to protect their livelihood.

“Ending the era of ICE agents making arrests in hoodies and unbranded street clothes is a long-overdue admission that unidentifiable immigration enforcement is dangerous, instills fear, and erodes public trust,” Nick Wilson, the senior director of public safety policy at Center for American Progress, told The Intercept. “Real public safety requires holding federal agents to the exact same standards of visibility, training, state and local oversight, and independent investigations of civil rights violations as local law enforcement.”

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      Yeah, a jail uniform. for all, branch out from there, bottom to the top of the Feds and intel, Trump too but he’s a unique ducky… he should be charged with the Epstein stuff first… American law is in a seriously fucked place rn

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    The officer attempting to make the arrest “looked like a kidnapper,” said one ICE official

    Appropriate field attire includes khaki or coyote brown tactical type pants, paired with an ICE polo, or dark blue or black polo.

    Jesus, this is so incredibly classist and racist.

    They’re swapping jeans and hoodies for polos and khakis. Basically they’re changing to rich people plainclothes, and saying that makes them look less like kidnappers.

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    I didn’t read the article, but let me guess. They will have to wear an armband that looks sort of like this?

    Edit: spelling

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    Appropriate field attire includes khaki or coyote brown tactical type pants, paired with an ICE polo, or dark blue or black polo.

    So, still plainclothes? Yeah, you try to stop me in plainclothes, and I’m running to the nearest police station