Not the Only One

Just so everyone knows, the thing with Hein isn't a one-off. Check out this reporting from CWB regarding the 011 District incident the other day where the Border Patrol detained a suspect after a traffic crash:

• Within a few seconds of the crash, a CPD officer monitoring a city surveillance camera quickly confirmed the crash occurred and that ICE agents were on the scene.

  For a while, the local district had no officers to send because it was in a “backlog,” meaning dispatchers had a stack of calls for police service but didn’t have any cops available.

  Nearly 30 minutes after the crash, as word spread about the heavy ICE presence, the first CPD officer to head to the scene was the local district commander — not exactly the guy who usually spends his day handling fender benders.

  Once the commander, his aide, and a sergeant assessed the situation, they quickly established their priorities. Topping that list was ensuring that no one could claim CPD was helping the feds.

  “The [crashed] car can sit in the middle of the street,” a supervisor said 45 minutes after the incident began. “As long as we’re not over there, it’s all that matters.”

As people have been pointing out, CPD isn't allowed to gauge their responses on a persons' race, age, religion, sexual orientation, or any one of a hundred other things.

But it seems we can deny / delay responses based on employment if a Republican is in Washington DC.