Two Fresno men are of accused of carrying out a social media stunt where they posed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and filmed themselves harassing local businesses, weeks after actual ICE raids in the Central Valley put the region’s undocumented community on edge.
The pair donned wigs and black tactical vests with letters deliberately covered up so they read “Police” and “ICE,” and were reported confronting community members at 11 businesses, according to the Fresno Police Department. At one store, they told employees they were conducting an investigation and demanded to see specific business documents, police said.
Police arrested the men Wednesday on suspicion of impersonating a police officer, a misdemeanor. They were cited and later released…