Internal documents revealed that police agencies across the U.S. widely circulated an unverified rumor alleging a Venezuelan gang had issued a directive to kill law enforcement officers. According to The Guardian, this claim was later deemed inaccurate by federal officials. This narrative, centered on the gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), was quickly adopted by politicians to bolster arguments against immigrants and certain border policies, but it’s not the first time law enforcement for Trump lied.
The intelligence report, which suggested TdA had ordered its members to “fire on or attack” law enforcement, appears to have originated in an Albuquerque police department (APD) bulletin on July 27, 2024. Citing warnings from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the APD bulletin claimed that HSI had “received information from credible human sources out of Colorado” that TdA members in Denver had been given a “green light” to attack police.
