US EditionLas Vegas ice cream truck mistaken for ICE vehicle: ‘I’m an ice cream man, that’s it’
- A Las Vegas ice cream truck was mistaken for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle, causing a social media uproar.
- Billy Settlemyers, the owner, stated, 'I'm an ice cream man, that's it,' and emphasized that his van is distinct from ice vehicles.
- After the viral post, Settlemyers felt unsafe and like a target, but he noted increased business, serving double his usual customers.
- The incident reflects heightened tensions around immigration policies since President Trump's administration, impacting many migrant families.
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Las Vegas ice-cream truck mistaken for ICE vehicle as deportation raids unfold
Billy Settlemyers, the owner of Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol, found himself in the middle of a firestorm last week after an ill-advised social-media user blasted out images of his truck and suggested it was part of an elaborate plot to round up illegal migrants.
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Las Vegas ice cream truck mistaken for ICE vehicle: 'I'm an ice cream man, that's it'
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Social media posts mistakenly identified a law enforcement-themed Las Vegas ice cream truck as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle, leading its owner to fear for his safety. “ICE and Border Patrol don't use trucks from 1985,” Billy Settlemyers, the owner of Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol, said Monday. Last week, a person posted a video of Settlemyers’ black-and-white truck driving into a neighborhood with the caption: …
A Las Vegas ice cream truck decorated like a police car was accused of being an undercover ICE truck
Julie Gomina on iStockBilly Settlemeyers, a former mechanic in Las Vegas, Nevada, retired from wrenching and kept himself busy after buying an old box truck and turning it into an ice cream shop on wheels. He decorated to look like a police cruiser. He called it, “Ice Cream Patrol,” and the truck has a convincing-looking “Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol” badge at the top. It reads “Unit 702” on the side, so the untrained eye (or those who don’t know…
LAS VEGAS-A simple ice cream truck, called “ICE Cream Patrol,” has generated fear among the Las Vegas Valley community, for its similarity to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Service vehicles. Images of this truck moving through the streets of Las Vegas have been trending on social media in recent days, in relation to recent raids under the administration of President Donald Trump. Truck owner William Settlemeyers commented that the labeling emu…
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