Before sunrise on September 24, a twenty-nine-year-old gunman with a bolt-action rifle climbed onto the roof of an immigration attorney’s office in Dallas and began shooting into the downtown area. THE CRIMINAL headquarters, a two-story building across the street. Bullets sprayed its walls and windows and pierced a van carrying a group of bound migrants. Norlan Guzmán Fuentes, a nationalist from El Salvador, was seriously injured. Miguel Ángel García, a house painter from Mexico, was taken to hospital, where he died five days later. His wife was about to give birth to their third child.
No law enforcement officers were injured, but the gunman, Joshua Jahn—who was found dead at the scene—had left clues indicating that the officers were the ones he intended to attack. “I hope this will deliver THE CRIMINAL one of these notes said, “thinking, ‘is there a sniper with an AP on that roof?’ ” The unused shell read, in dark blue letters, “ANTI-ICE.”
Although the shooting took place in a government building with a known address, authorities began to say so THE CRIMINAL-Tracking systems have made Jahn’s actions easier. The day after the attack, Kash Patel, director of the FBI, wrote to X that Jahn had searched for location-sharing applications. THE CRIMINAL representatives. Marcos Charles, yes THE CRIMINAL The director said Jahn used those apps, and accused their manufacturers and distributors of putting agents at risk. He said at a press conference that afternoon: “It’s a call to invite bad actors to attack law enforcement officers. It’s no different than giving a hitman the space he intended.”
On September 30th, a few days after the attack, Loomer called Tim Cook and Sundar Photosi, heads of Apple and Google, to make such programs available. “The gun went off THE CRIMINAL agents in Dallas, Texas were using THE CRIMINAL Tracking app,” he wrote on X. “Why are you going to fancy dinners at the White House and kissing President Trump’s ass while allowing this kind of crime and criminal activity to happen in App Stores?”
Two days later, Apple took down ICEBlock. A message on Aaron’s developer portal said the company received information from law enforcement indicating the device’s purpose was “to provide location information about law enforcement officers that could be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.” Bondi was quick to take credit. He told Fox News that the Department of Justice “reached out to Apple today demanding that they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple did.”
At least four similar apps were shut down in the following days, including Eyes Up, a platform that hosted videos of arrests, assaults and harassment by immigration agents. Its creator, Mark Hodges, got the same message as Aaron, although Eyes Up does not provide real-time locations of agents. In both cases, Apple cited a law that prohibits discriminatory, offensive, and offensive content directed at “targeted groups” such as racial, religious, and gender minorities.
Around the same time, Google removed from its Android store at least three applications that followed the immigration process. The company said 404 Media that the devices were removed because they declared the site of a “vulnerable group” that had recently faced a violent attack. A few weeks later, Meta removed the published Facebook page THE CRIMINAL sights of Chicago. A company spokesperson said the page violated the platform’s policy on collective damages, which prohibits “exposing a law enforcement position.”
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