DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shared on “Fox & Friends” that specific law enforcement officers have bounties on them put out by cartel members, terrorist organizations, and gangs.
DHS has taken extra measures to protect law enforcement officers who have been targeted by these criminal syndicates.
“Intelligence indicates that these people are organized. They are getting more and more people on their team as far as attacking officers and they are making plans to ambush them and to kill them,” Noem said.
“We have specific officers and agents that have bounties that have been put out on their heads. It’s been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them. They’ve released their pictures. They’ve sent them between their networks and it’s an extremely dangerous situation and unprecedented,” Noem warned.
“We’ve put protective detail around those individuals, changed some of our operations to keep our officers safe,” Noem continued.
“This isn’t just about you know, protesting free speech, or that they don’t like that people out here are upholding the law of our country. They are actually going out there and saying, kill these people and we will give you this much money to do it,” Noem explained.