Seattle police union balks after leftist mayor calls for tracking, investigating ICE agents

Seattle’s police union on Friday fired back at Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, a rabid leftist, after she called for local cops to track and investigate federal immigration agents as if they were criminals.

“Toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives,” president of the Seattle Police Officer Guild (SPOG), Mike Solan, said in a statement, referencing the deaths of left-wing extremists Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of law enforcement.

“The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen. I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns,” he added.

“Toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives. The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen. I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns.”
– Mike Solan,… pic.twitter.com/EuwZxVI1uw

— Seattle Police Officers Guild (@SPOG1952) January 30, 2026

The statement came a day after Wilson, the mayor, banned federal immigration agents from using city property such as parking lots, plazas, and garages to conduct their operations.

The leftist mayor also ordered the city’s police force to “investigate, verify, and document” the actions of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in town.

“If dispatched to a location where apparent immigration enforcement activity is underway, officers will document the activity with in-car and body-worn video, validate the status of apparent federal law enforcement agents through official identification, and secure scenes of potentially unlawful acts to gather evidence for transmittal to prosecutors,” a press release from her office reads.

Wilson further called for the city government to “invest $4 million in city funds to organizations engaged in immigrant legal defense, community support, and the long-term needs of immigrant communities.”

So, in other words, she wants to use local taxpayer funds to provide a legal defense to illegal aliens.

“So many of us are shocked and heartbroken by the news out of Minneapolis, and share a growing concern that our city too could come under attack by the federal government,” she said in a virtue-signaling statement directed at her rabid base.

“I’m also disturbed by what I’ve been hearing about the huge spike in hotline calls there from families that can’t pay their rent because they’re afraid to leave their homes and go to work, and about small businesses at the end of their rope because the federal incursion has made it impossible to operate,” she added.

Today I announced an initial set of actions to protect city residents in the face of increased federal immigration enf orcement activity. #thisisyourcity pic.twitter.com/7BzGfMDpJt

— Mayor Katie B. Wilson (@MayorofSeattle) January 29, 2026

And finally, Wilson urged private property/business owners to post trespassing signs directed at federal immigration agents.

The White House was also not pleased by her proposals.

“ICE officers are facing a 1300 percent increase in assaults because of dangerous, untrue smears by elected Democrats,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News. “Just the other day, an officer had his finger bitten off by a radical left-wing rioter.”

“ICE officers act heroically to enforce the law and protect American communities and local officials should work with them, not against them. Anyone pointing the finger at law enforcement officers instead of the criminals is simply doing the bidding of criminal illegal aliens,” she added.

Despite the radicalism of Wilson’s proposal, numerous top officials in Seattle eagerly glommed onto it, including Seattle City Councilmember Maritza Rivera.

“The Federal Administration is not only acting with brutality, but I believe it is also acting outside constitutional law,” she said in a statement. ”

“When our own government operates outside the bounds of the constitution and outside the bounds of human decency, cities and states must band together to protect our residents, provide leadership, and maintain calm,” she added.

All this comes as the state’s leftist legislators consider “measures to slow federal immigration activity in Washington, including a bill that would prevent former ICE agents from being hired into local law enforcement, as well as banning officers from wearing face coverings,” according to local station KCPQ.

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