Dallas ICE Facility Shooting: Press Conference Update and Call to Stop Divisive Rhetoric

Law Enforcement Response and Investigation

• 🚨 Dallas Police received an assist officer call at approximately 6:40 a.m., responding to find four individuals shot, including the shooter, who was deceased.
• 🤝 The investigation is being conducted jointly by the Dallas Police Department and federal partners, including the FBI and ICE.
• 🔍 The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of targeted violence, noting that early evidence from rounds found near the shooter contained anti-ICE messages.
• ⚠️ No members of law enforcement were injured during the attack.

Call to End Divisive Rhetoric

• 🗣️ ICE officials emphasized that rhetoric demonizing ICE employees is leading to acts of violence, stating, "the rhetoric has to stop."
• 📢 Senator Ted Cruz echoed this sentiment, calling on politicians to stop using divisive language and to cease demanding that ICE agents be doxed.
• 🇺🇸 The importance of disagreeing politically without demonizing opponents was highlighted, with a plea for politicians to work together with decency across the political aisle.
• 🕊️ A strong message was delivered that violence is wrong, and that politically motivated violence has real consequences, citing a recent political assassination in Utah and previous attacks on ICE/CBP facilities in Texas.

Community and Prayer

• 🙏 The Mayor of Dallas opened the conference by emphasizing the power of prayer for the victims, their families, the injured, and for the city and nation during this difficult time.
• 🤝 Residents were urged to be patient, remain calm, and allow law enforcement to do their job as the investigation is active with many unanswered questions.
• 🌟 Law enforcement agencies, including Dallas PD, Dallas Sheriff's Department, Texas DPS, and federal partners, were thanked for their quick response in preventing the tragedy from being worse.
• ❓ Information regarding the identities of the victims is still being ascertained and will be released by law enforcement when available.