Reform UK Councillor Slammed After Tweeting: ‘I Stand With ICE’ After Fatal Shooting Of Nurse Alex Pretti

A Reform councillor is facing a bit of stick after showing support for ICE following the completely unnecessary shooting of nurse Alex Pretti in a Minneapolis street on Saturday.

Joseph Boam, 22, tweeted a graphic of the US Department of Homeland Security with the words ‘I Stand With Ice’.

Not sure why a councillor from Leicester would feel the need to ‘stand with’ an issue that has to do with American law enforcement, especially when he should be busying himself with complaints about bin collection in Whitwick, or whatever they’ve got going on over there.

Unless, of course, it’s something of a dog whistle?

Following backlash for his tweet, Boam doubled down on his approval for ICE, saying: “For the people that don’t support ICE – Are you suggesting that the UK should not enforce its immigration law?

“When I said I support ICE’s work, I mean that I support the enforcement of immigration law, which is the task of Immigration Control and Enforcement aka ICE. That is what I stand by.”

It probably won’t shock you to learn that Boam has previously come under fire for being an Andrew Tate fanboy; regularly tweeting and retweeting him.

After Tate was barred from some social media accounts, Boam tweeted: “Andrew Tate has been banned from Instagram and Facebook. Free speech is dead. The world is dead.”

If you haven’t seen the recent footage of ICE shooting 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, it’s easy to find on X and other channels. He was shot 10 times in five seconds after being bundled to the ground because he was trying to stop ICE agents from pepper-spraying a woman.

For the Reform MP who apologised after saying adverts full of black people ‘drive me mad’, click HERE.