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A Trump-appointed judge ripped ICE agents for giving false sworn testimony and records to justify the violent mistaken-identity arrests of 2 men in the Bronx, one of whom was a US citizen. Brenden Cuni, who fired seven shots into a stopped car with a 5-yr-old child in Marble Hill yesterday, was one
nydailynews.com
Federal judge blasts ICE agents for false testimony, bogus warrant, in wrong-ID Bronx arrests
Long Island U.S. District Court Judge Gary Brown issued his fiery, 28-page ruling on Monday in the case of Dominican immigrant Angel Almonte, one of the two men arrested by the agents.
![After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreidqylhmhwshnfs3a5dq2g3wiulejbwwwgoia34tsntiszybms4j6m)
