The Justice Department announced a fresh federal charge Monday against another alleged anti-ICE rioter tied to the Delaney Hall clashes in New Jersey.

DOJ identified the suspect as Marcus Philip Conceicao and said he has been charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer.

According to the department, Conceicao allegedly used an umbrella to push ICE officers away, then threw it in a spear-like manner and struck an officer.

The Justice Department laid out the new charge in its own post naming the suspect:

The charge lands after days of attention on the unrest around the ICE facility.

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This is a new named case, and the alleged conduct is specific: DOJ says the umbrella was first used to push officers back, then thrown like a spear.

Secretary Markwayne Mullin also tied the broader enforcement push to what DHS says is a sharp rise in threats against ICE officers:

The 8,000% figure is the number DHS has been using as federal officials describe the pressure on immigration officers.

In a separate case announced the same day, DOJ said a Brooklyn man had been charged with threatening to assault and murder an ICE officer outside an ICE detention facility.

The Justice Department laid out how top federal officials are framing the threat against ICE officers:

“Federal law enforcement officers face danger with great courage, and they should be able to do their jobs without being threatened and fearing for their families’ lives,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “We take such threats very seriously and will prosecute those who make them to the fullest extent of the law.”

“This individual allegedly threatened violence toward one of our federal law enforcement officers and their family — and by using facial recognition technology, within 24 hours this FBI got him,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “In particular, I want to thank Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche who moved extremely quickly to locate, pursue, and bring the subject to justice — as well as our FBI Newark and New York teams who executed brilliantly.

Let this be a message to any criminal actor who may try something similar: you touch a cop, and this FBI will put you down.”

“This violent rioter who allegedly threatened to murder an ICE law enforcement officer and his family is being brought to justice,” said Secretary Markwayne Mullin of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “Our ICE officers are facing an 8,000% increase in death threats against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.

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Our officers have been assaulted, doxxed, their families threatened. This violence against law enforcement must end.

President Trump and I will always stand with our law enforcement officers.”

“As alleged, the defendant threatened a federal law enforcement officer and members of that officer’s family with violence and death,” said U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer for the District of New Jersey. “Threats against federal officers and their families are serious crimes and will not be tolerated.

Federal officers serve our communities every day, often in difficult circumstances, and this office is committed to holding accountable those who, as alleged here, threaten violence against them or their loved ones.”

The Conceicao charge remains an allegation unless proven in court.

But the message from DOJ and DHS is clear: attacks and threats aimed at federal officers are going to be met with federal charges.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

 

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