💥BOMBSHELL: Pressed by Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News at a gaggle, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell refused to call his public listing of ICE and HSI agents’ names “doxing.”
Instead, he claimed the real problem is “masked” ICE agents arresting criminal illegal aliens.
ICE agents and their families are not safe because of Freddie’s reckless actions. And he’s not even sorry.
The pushback was so intense, O’Connell had to abruptly end the press gaggle.
This investigation is far from over.
Exchange:
**Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News:**
Hi. Do you believe that posting the names of federal immigration officers endangers them?
**Freddie O’Connell:**
Well, this was really an issue where they were already part of a public record by being in Department of Emergency Communications calls, so I don’t think it puts them at additional risk, but it’s also not an intention of the executive order under which those names were released.
**Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News:**
So if it doesn’t put them at additional risk, why did your office decide to remove the names?
**Freddie O’Connell:**
It wasn’t an intentional process. We’ve had, primarily, using local departments, we’ve had multiple people whose names have been there, but again, this is something new where we’re reviewing it. We’ve obviously had some concerns from DHS about releasing those names. They would still be discoverable, but that was not an intent of the executive order.
**Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News:**
Do you understand the concerns of DHS when they’re talking about endangering federal immigration officers by posting the names?
**Freddie O’Connell:**
I understand the concerns, but it’s not a process that I would characterize as doxing. It was an unintentional release of names that were already part of a public record.
**Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News:**
So would you agree with them that releasing the names endangers them, or was it just to kind of appease DHS?
**Freddie O’Connell:**
I wouldn’t say it was an endangerment process. I would say they may have some concerns. I’m far more concerned about the overall dynamic we have about unmarked, unidentifiable, masked people whisking people into vehicles. I think that’s a bigger concern.
**Freddie O’Connell:**
Alright, folks, thanks.