US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in the headlines a lot these days. But this story isn’t about federal officers facing off with protestors or raiding manufacturing plants. This is the tale of one self-identified ICE agent getting arrested by police for a DUI with kids in his pickup truck. And he wasn’t happy about it.  

A Florida man told authorities he was an ICE agent before they arrested him for driving drunk with two young kids in his truck

Body cam and dash cam footage captured an interaction between a 42-year-old Miami resident and local police. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled the man over under suspicion of drunk driving. But here’s the rub: the Florida man behind the wheel of the truck was quick to identify himself as an ICE officer, as if that would absolve him of driving under the influence.

“Are you [curse] serious right now?” Scott Thomas Deiseroth belligerently asked the police officer when ordered to step out of his Chevrolet Silverado. “Are we really doing this right now?” As it turns out, they were really doing it right then and there.

According to authorities, Deiseroth had a “strong odor of alcohol” when he stepped out of the truck. After telling the officers that he had consumed four alcoholic beverages, he continued his tirade. “Are you guys really trying to [curse] me right now?”

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies administered a sobriety test, which Deiseroth failed. Worse yet, the Miami resident had two children, ages seven and nine, in the truck at the time of the DUI arrest. 

If that wasn’t enough, the alleged ICE agent turned to racial profiling. “Are you Haitian?” Deiseroth asked the arresting officer. “It doesn’t matter,” one of the officers at the scene told him in response.

“Yes, it does,” Deiseroth responded. As if that made any difference for his DUI. Well, Deiseroth, make sure you bring that up to the judge at your court date. Check out the footage for yourself below!