INSURRECTION: Democrat Arizona AG Kris Mayes Says Citizens Can Shoot ICE Agents

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : In a televised interview, Mayes warned that Arizona's Stand Your Ground statute could justify lethal force against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if residents claim they felt threatened -- effectively normalizing the idea of armed confrontations with federal agents.
43% : " The attorney general, who was elected in 2022, unleashed her jaw-dropping comments as immigration officers begin to spread into parts of the Grand Canyon State.She vowed to prosecute any ICE agent who violates state laws after operations in Minnesota sparked widespread unrest when a federal officer fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good when she clipped him with her car during a heated confrontation on Jan. 7. US Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) blasted the attorney general, calling her rhetoric "reckless." "This was the attorney general of Arizona freelancing a scenario where bullets start flying and then shrugging it off as 'just the law.'
42% : " Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents under the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.
38% : "It's kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks," Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE "very poorly trained.
34% : By Anna Young, NY Post, Jan. 22, 2026: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state's self-defense laws.
32% : AG Kris Mayes, Arizona's top law enforcement official, sparked national outrage after publicly declaring citizens could shoot masked federal ICE agents and later shrug it off as "just the law.

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