Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday indicated she might get into a shootout with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents if they entered her house and she could not easily identify them.
ICE has faced intense backlash since the January fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota. Willis said on the podcast “The Jamal Bryant Podcast ‘Let’s Be Clear’” that she was shocked about a lack of “very violent incidents” between citizens and ICE and indicated there might be a shootout if agents entered her home “guns ablaze” in an effort to snatch somebody.
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“I’ve been very amazed that we have gotten this far and there has not been an incident with not even local law enforcement, but with communities that ICE is going to get … one reason I’m surprised is because sometime the identifying clothing or paraphernalia of the person is not one where you can readily tell that it is a law enforcement person,” Willis said. “And if somebody came in my house, guns ablaze, trying to grab anyone out, it might end badly for everybody.”
“So I’ve been really, really surprised that we haven’t had an incident already. And I’m talking about very violent incidents,” she continued. “I do not know that it will be law enforcement coming to a clash. But if you ask me the broader question is, do I think that something is going to go very badly before this behavior stops? I do.”
It was unclear when Bryant and Willis filmed the episode, and there was no mention of the Pretti and Good shootings during their discussion of ICE.
Neither Bryant nor Willis immediately responded to emails from the Daily Caller News Foundation requesting the date of the recording. Willis did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler similarly claimed that ICE agents were “goons” that people were “justified” to shoot during a rant at a Feb. 3 hearing.
“[W]hat is really the major problem in this country today is the fascism in our streets. The attacks on American citizens by masked hoodlums,” Nadler said. “If you were attacked by a masked person, you might think you were being kidnapped, you’d be justified in shooting the person to protect yourself, but we see people being shot for what? For driving a car.”
Border czar Tom Homan told reporters that assaults against ICE agents were surging and “doxxing” had reached “an all-time high” during a May 2025 press gaggle. Attacks on ICE agents had skyrocketed by 1,300%, according to a Jan. 8 release by the Department of Homeland Security, with vehicular assaults up 3,200% and death threats up 8,000%.
Moreover, resistance against ICE enforcement operations has occasionally involved violence. Individuals have allegedly fired at agents in Illinois and California and reportedly attacked them using vehicles in ten separate incidents between Jan. 4 and Jan. 10, according to Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin.
Furthermore, two individuals were killed during a shooting at an ICE office in Dallas, Texas on Sept. 24. At least two prior incidents in the state occurred in July where gunshots were directed at ICE or Border Patrol facilities.
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