Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records

[Zorro]

The federal prosecutor faced the jury, brandishing the item he said had been “used as a sword” to assault a federal officer during a July protest in downtown Los Angeles.

The object that Assistant U.S. Atty. Patrick Kibbe said was wielded as a weapon: An umbrella that an investigator needed a special scale to weigh because it was less than one pound.

For months, Trump administration officials have cited violence against federal law enforcement officers carrying out the president’s deportation campaign as justification for aggressive tactics, including threats to deploy the National Guard and U.S. Marines. The Department of Homeland Security has touted a staggering figure, claiming a 1,000% increase in assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

But a Times analysis of court records related to assaults on federal law enforcement in Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Ore., Chicago and Washington, D.C., shows the majority of the alleged attacks resulted in no injury to an agent. In roughly 42% of the cases The Times reviewed, federal law enforcement officers were either shoved, spat on or flailed at, or had water bottles thrown at them, according to court affidavits.

During the umbrella assault trial in October, prosecutors provided no evidence of any injuries. In L.A. and across the country, defendants accused of assaulting federal officers have won acquittals or had charges dropped. More than a third of the cases The Times analyzed ended in dismissals or acquittals, in some instances because the defendants were deported. No cases have ended in a conviction at trial.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-01/dhs-1000-percent-increase-attacks-on-ice-agents-times-analysis

[Midnight Writer]

1. Honestly, if unidentified masked men jump out of a van and try to grab me, there will be one more "attack" on ICE.

Never let your abductor take you to a second location. Not if you can stop it in any way.

The second location is where the really bad shit will happen to you.

I don't doubt "attacks" are up, though I would call it "resistance". When government floods our country with goons that act like gangsters and thugs, people will resist.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Number one"

Pedonald is a known liar, just like everyone else in the regime,
Number 2, even if this were true, then just why do you think this is so?
Huh, Pedonald, why do you think this is the case?

[Eugene]

3. Pedonald!

Thanks, I'm gonna use this!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. My grand daughter thought this one up.

Please do use it.

[bluestarone]

5. If it's up 1000%, that means,

These monsters attacked legal protestors up 1000%