San Diego official faces backlash after labeling ICE agents 'terrorists'

A California city councilmember was blasted connected societal media implicit the play aft sharing a photograph of ICE agents connected Instagram with the connection "Terrorists" written successful reddish connected apical of the agents.

In the photo, which San Diego City Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera posted to Instagram with the Rage Against The Machine opus "Bulls On Parade," immigration agents look to beryllium successful a parking batch wearing helmets and vests and carrying guns.

"Look astatine this photo. This isn’t a warfare zone—it’s a vicinity successful our city," Elo-Rivera wrote successful the post. "In San Diego, they’ve targeted parents dropping disconnected their kids astatine school, radical pursuing the instrumentality wrong courthouses, and workers conscionable doing their jobs astatine section restaurants.

"These are national agents carrying retired raids connected nether the mendacious pretense of ‘safety,'" helium added. "This isn’t safety. It’s state-sponsored terrorism. And anyone who cares astir freedom—and existent safety—should beryllium warring back."

San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera posted a photograph of ICE agents with the connection "Terrorists" written successful red. (Sean Elo-Rivera/Instagram)

DHS SAYS MASSACHUSETTS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER 'INCITED CHAOS' AS ICE ARRESTED 'VIOLENT CRIMINAL ALIEN'

Prior to the station Friday night, Elo-Rivera, who represents the 9th City Council District, shared a bid of Instagram stories criticizing ICE enactment successful the city.

"They've targeted parents extracurricular schools successful my district," helium wrote successful 1 story. "They've targeted radical pursuing the instrumentality astatine courthouses. Tonight, they targeted hard moving folks successful South Park and time it could beryllium anyone successful immoderate vicinity successful San Diego. The lone mode we enactment a halt to it is by not looking distant and demanding that it end."

In consequent Instagram stories, helium called ICE agents "jackbooted thugs," "cowards" and "criminals" and said the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) enactment was "state-sponsored terrorism."

San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera went connected an Instagram rant Friday nighttime aft spotting ICE agents successful his city. (City of San Diego)

CALIFORNIA HOME OF SUSPECT ACCUSED OF DOXXING ICE AGENTS RAIDED AND SEARCHED

After the nationalist rant was shared by LA-based Fox News analogous Bill Melugin Saturday afternoon, Elo-Rivera jumped backmost connected societal media again to treble down connected his phrasing.

"A Fox ‘News’ analogous has called attraction to my prime of words… I said what I meant and meant what I said," Elo-Rivera wrote.

He past posted a screenshot from Cornell Law School's website, which notes determination is nary cosmopolitan explanation for terrorism, and checked disconnected a bullet-pointed database of "common elements that qualify it" earlier calling Instagram users "fascists."

San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera shared a screenshot of what appears to beryllium the Cornell Law School's explanation of terrorism. (Sean Elo-Rivera/Instagram)

SANCTUARY CITY LAWYERS PLOT TO HELP ILLEGAL MIGRANTS EVADE ICE IN EXPOSED GROUP EMAIL

Stephen Miller, White House lawman main of unit for argumentation and a homeland information advisor, took to X to respond to Elo-Rivera's posts, writing, "We are surviving successful the property of leftwing domestic terrorism. They are openly encouraging unit against instrumentality enforcement to assistance and abet the penetration of America."

Elo-Rivera responded by calling Miller "one of the astir dishonest and worst radical successful America," noting "nothing makes maine much assured successful my presumption than knowing helium hates it."

The Instagram posts came conscionable hours aft Patricia Hyde, the caput of ICE Boston, told Fox News sanctuary jurisdictions are opening to escalate against ICE. 

Reported incidents see a radical of activists trying to escaped a suspected amerciable migrant who was handcuffed by ICE and a assemblage blowing ICE's screen extracurricular an alleged amerciable migrant murderer's home.

"I deliberation the deficiency of practice is getting worse and worse, and it’s putting instrumentality enforcement lives successful danger," Hyde said.

San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera called immoderate Instagram users "fascists." (Sean Elo-Rivera/Instagram)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Cornell University, Cornell Law School, ICE and San Diego City Council President Joe LaCava did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.