On Wednesday, the courtroom for the trial of the Spokane 3 heard testimony from supervisory Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention officer Jeremy Burlingame. Burlingame has been with ICE since 2007, he said from the witness stand. He mostly works in Spokane, though he spent a bit of time in Texas.
Burlingame was in the ICE building during the June 11 protests. He was also one of the federal agents who accused June 11 protester and Human Rights Commissioner Justice Forral of detaining agents unlawfully in the local charging documents. Prosecutors called him to testify in the federal trial for the three protesters charged with federal conspiracy.
We found a Twitter account under Burlingame’s name. The profile picture depicts a man with his back to the camera, wearing an ICE vest. This account posted about the June 11 protests, stating that former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart, who posted a call for folks to join him in protesting the detainment of two young men, “needs to be charged for incitement at the federal level.” It also posted about a local ICE arrest in Spokane Valley.
Just over a month later, Stuckart and eight other protesters were charged with the federal felony of “Conspiracy to Impede or Injure Officers.”…