Keep seeing this get misrepresented, here is the correct response:

the DOJ use of force policy is not a statute passed by Congress, it is an internal policy set by the Attorney General and written into the DOJ’s Justice Manual.

ICE is not a DOJ agency. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), not the Department of Justice, therefore, the DOJ’s use of force policy in Title 1 does not directly govern ICE agents in the same way it governs DOJ personnel.

DHS policy explicitly recognizes that vehicles can constitute deadly force and authorizes deadly force when an officer reasonably believes they face imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to themselves or others.

Graham v. Connor (1989) establishes that force must be objectively reasonable from the officer’s perspective at the moment, and that reasonableness is judged in real time, not with hindsight.