A raid to find dangerous Venezuelan gang members holed up in a Colorado apartment is now the target of an investigation by the ultra liberal ACLU.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado claims the Aurora Police Department broke state law during a police operation Dec. 17 at the Edge of Lowry Apartments.
Members of the notorious South American gang Tren de Aragua kidnapped and tortured a couple for hours, police said.
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Aurora PD enlisted the help of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that day, turning 19 Venezuelans over to the feds who held them on immigration charges.
Eventually, eight of them were charged by the Aurora Police Department for kidnapping.
However, the ACLU is leaning on a Centennial State law that bans local cops from turning migrants over to federal immigration authorities. It’s a common practice allowed in many other places.
‘Whether APD’s asserted law enforcement objectives were legitimate or pretextual, the officers executed the raid in a manner that appears to have exceeded their authority under Colorado law,’ ACLU of Colorado’s Legal Director Tim Macdonald told Denver TV station KDVR.
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The Venezuelan migrants, who are in the United States legally, were later released by ICE. But local police insist the other 16 people taken into custody are TdA gangsters.
After the December raid on the Edge of Lowry apartments, Aurora police released photos of guns seized at the property, including a hidden compartment behind a shower wall meant to conceal the illegal weapons.
Tren de Aragua, the same transnational crime organization unleashing a wave of crime throughout the US, took over three apartment complexes in Aurora in 2024.
The Venezuelan thugs have been victimizing other migrants, demanding money from them and beating or hurting those who don’t comply.
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‘This is ridiculous. The ACLU wants to investigate APD and ICE for raiding the TdA gang apartments at “The Edge at Lowry” because APD and ICE worked together to stop violent crime. The ACLU isn’t protecting Americans,’ tweeted former Colorado ICE director John Fabbricatore.
The ACLU has previously taken other law enforcement agencies to court and won, like its 2024 victory over the Teller County Sheriff’s Office for housing migrants on ICE’s behalf.
Regardless how the ALCU’s investigation into Aurora police turns out, state laws continue to hinder cops in the Rocky Mountain state from dealing with crime, a former cop turned Congressman explained.
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‘I was a cop up until 2022 when the crime in Colorado just got so bad, and I couldn’t make a difference because of how I’d been handcuffed by just awful policies.’
Colorado voters also banned ICE agents from showing up to courts in order to make arrests.
‘When Colorado took that hard left turn, it was a matter of weeks before the (Mexican) cartels figured it out, before these transnational criminal organizations found out about it, and they moved to set up shop in Colorado specifically to take advantage on our very soft-on-crime laws,’ Evans added.
‘Law enforcement has just incredible liability and red-tape in order of them to be able to do anything in Colorado, and so you have not just our home-grown criminals taking advantage of that, but now you have the big boys.’
* Original Article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-border-crisis/article-14259289/aurora-colorado-migrant-gang-trump-border.html?ito=smartnews