Joe Rogan compares Trump's ICE to Hitler's Gestapo: 'Is that what we've come to?'
Podcast host Joe Rogan noted that there were similarities between the Nazi Gestapo and President Donald Trump's use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
During an interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) this week, Rogan noted that many Americans viewed ICE officers as "murderous, military people that are on the streets of our city, and they're masked up, which is also a problem."
"Because if you get arrested by a cop, you're allowed to ask the cop, what is your name and badge number?" he remarked. "If you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right. They're wearing a mask. They don't have to tell you s—t. That's a problem. That's a problem on our city streets, right? Because you could also pretend to be an ICE agent."
"And we shouldn't have militarized groups of people roaming the streets, just showing up with masks on, snatching people up," he continued. "It's complicated, obviously, but it's also very ugly. To watch someone shoot a U.S. citizen, especially a woman, in the face, where it's like, I'm not that guy. I don't know what he thought."
Rogan seemed skeptical of claims that the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis was necessary.
"When people say it's justifiable because the car hit him, it seemed like she was kind of turning the car away," he said. "She didn't seem mentally healthy, but does that mean she should be shot in the head? Is there no other way to handle this?"
"And then I can also see the point of view of the people to say, yeah, but you don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens that just don't have their papers on them," he added.
"Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where's your papers? Is that what we've come to?"