Bandy takes Apple Ice Tracking Apps after DOJ pressure

First on Fox: Apple The Department of Justice left a widely used tracking tool from its app store on Thursday after the Department of Justice raised concerns, which the app put the law enforcement officers at risk.

DOJ officials, under the direction of Attorney General Palm Bandy, asked Apple to take the Iceblock down, a step that Trump administration officials claimed tool, which allows users to report the presence of ice agents anonymously, endanger agents and helps in molding illegal immigrants.

Bandy said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “We approached Apple today, which they remove the Iceblock app from their app store – and Apple did so.”

“Iceblock is designed to put ice agents only to risk their work, and violence against law enforcement is an unbearable red line that cannot be crossed,” Bandy said. “This Department of Justice will continue to make every effort to protect our brave federal law enforcement officers, who risk their lives every day to protect Americans.”

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After last month’s deadly shooting at an ice field office in Dallas, Texas, controversies around the ice tracking apps, the latest in a range of attacks appeared to target immigration enforcement officers.

Officials said that the suspect, Joshua Jahhan discovered his phone to track apps including Iceblock, before setting fire on the facility from the roof. Officials said that Jahan killed a prisoner and two were seriously injured, but the personnel were their goals, not the immigrants. One of the injured, a 32 -year -old husband and the father of four, He died this week.

Marocos Charles, a caretaker director for the removal of the Ice, said during a press conference that Jahan had intended to kill the Ice employees and the attacks on them have touched the sky.

“The evidence is clear that it was intended as an attack on snow workers who come to work every day to do their work,” Charles said. “Violent rhetoric has led to an increase of more than 1000% in attacks on snow authorities, and will have to stop.”

Fox News reached Apple and Iceblock for digital comments.

Apple said in a statement that it removed the Iceblock and other apps like it.

Apple said, “We have created an app store to be a safe and reliable place to find apps. We have removed this and similar apps from the app store, based on the information obtained from law enforcement about the security risks related to ISWOLLD,” Apple said.

Joshua Aaron, the creator of Iceblock, said he was “incredibly disappointed with apple actions today.”

“Capitulating a powerful rule is never the right step,” Aaron said. “Apple has claimed that he has received information from law enforcement that Iceblock has served to harm the law enforcement officers. This is clearly wrong.”

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Aaron stated that Iceblock, which has more than 1.1 million users, perform functions such as other mapping applications that use crowds sourcing for speed trap, citing Apple’s own map service as an example.

“We are firm to fight what we have,” Aaron said. “Our mission has always been to protect our neighbors from terror, this administration continues to rule the people of this nation.”