Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner threatened to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers patrolling Philadelphia’s International Airport. Krasner made the comments during a press conference at the airport on Tuesday, addressing the presence of ICE officers deployed amid Transportation Security Administration staffing shortages.
“This is how it works,” Krasner said. “You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you. That is how it works. No, I don’t take a phone call from the president, saying, ‘Let him go.’ No, the president cannot pardon you. I’ll say it again: the president cannot pardon you. And yes, I will put you in handcuffs, I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport, anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved criminal homicide of unarmed innocent people.”
“We are not having that here,” Krasner said…