BS BRIEF:
- The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed Friday that assistant general counsel Shannon Desherow was fired after an internal investigation into her viral anti-ICE video. “Once we were made aware of her social media post, we opened an internal investigation,” the agency said. “Upon completion of the internal investigation, she was terminated.”
- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond publicly condemned Desherow before the firing, declaring that she “does not speak for Oklahoma” and that her attack on ICE did not reflect “the values of Oklahomans or the law-enforcement community.”
- Part of Desherow’s legal argument touched on a genuine constitutional dispute: Administrative immigration warrants are issued by immigration officers rather than judges and traditionally have not authorized nonconsensual entry into a home. But the Trump administration adopted a contested policy allowing entry in certain final-removal cases, prompting lawsuits and fierce disagreement among legal experts.
OKLAHOMA FIRES STATE ATTORNEY AFTER SHE URGES CITIZENS TO MAKE ICE AGENTS’ LIVES ‘MISERABLE’
🚨 Meet Shannon Desherow, Assistant General Counsel for the State of Oklahoma.
She went on an unhinged meltdown, appearing to threaten ICE and saying she will NOT comply.
“I’m gonna make it an ICE agent’s problem. I don’t have to f*cking comply with ICE… we have to make their… pic.twitter.com/W9pegr0Kym
— Red Pill 1.0 (@RedPillDecode) July 25, 2026
An Oklahoma government lawyer who delivered a profanity-soaked social-media lecture urging American citizens to resist federal immigration agents has lost her state job.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed Friday that it terminated staff attorney Shannon Desherow following an internal review of the viral TikTok video.
“Once we were made aware of her social media post, we opened an internal investigation,” an OSBI spokesperson said.
The agency added:
“Upon completion of the internal investigation, she was terminated. Since this is a personnel matter, we are unable to further comment at this time.”
Desherow had served as an assistant general counsel for the OSBI, the state agency responsible for assisting law-enforcement organizations with major criminal investigations.
Her employment came under scrutiny after the conservative social-media account Libs of TikTok circulated a video in which Desherow attacked conservatives who tell people to “just comply” during encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Conservatives really think they’re doing something when they say, ‘Just comply’ when it comes to ICE and United States citizens,” Desherow said.
She then launched into a string of obscenities while arguing that federal immigration officers have no authority over citizens.
“Why the f— would I comply with someone who has no jurisdiction over me?”
Desherow continued:
“ICE has no authority and no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens. So why the f— would I comply with an order given to me at gunpoint by somebody who has no f—ing authority to make that order?”
She answered her own question:
“I’m not going to.”
The attorney then turned from a discussion of legal rights to a direct call for public resistance.
“I don’t have to f—ing comply with ICE because I was born here.”
She added:
“Every citizen needs to have that f—ing mindset.”
Then came the line that generated the fiercest backlash:
“We need to make their lives f—ing miserable, and that’s exactly what we should be doing.”
The OSBI initially placed Desherow under review after the video spread online. The agency later completed that investigation and dismissed her.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond also weighed in publicly, rejecting any suggestion that Desherow’s comments represented the state.
“The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation’s Shannon Desherow does not speak for Oklahoma,” Drummond said.
He added that her comments attacking ICE’s mission:
“Do not reflect the values of Oklahomans or the law-enforcement community.”
Desherow identified herself on social media as a “lawyer, mom, bookworm” and a “leftist in a red state,” while adding that her views were her own and did not represent her employer.
Her LinkedIn profile listed her as an assistant general counsel for the state and indicated that she graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2020.
The video also contained a more specific legal claim concerning the difference between ICE administrative warrants and judicial warrants.
“An ICE warrant, by the way, 99% of the time, is an administrative warrant,” Desherow said.
She argued:
“It’s not good enough for the f—ing Fourth Amendment.”
Desherow continued:
“It doesn’t give you access to my house. It doesn’t give you access to my car, and it certainly doesn’t give you access to f—ing arrest me.”
That portion of her argument overlaps with longstanding legal guidance distinguishing an immigration administrative warrant from a search warrant signed by a judge.
An ICE administrative warrant is issued within the executive branch, not by a neutral court. Civil-liberties organizations have long advised residents that such a document generally does not, by itself, authorize immigration agents to enter a private home without consent.
The Trump administration, however, has asserted broader authority in cases involving noncitizens who already have final removal orders.
An internal ICE memorandum obtained by The Associated Press stated that officers could rely on administrative warrants to enter homes in those cases. The Department of Homeland Security defended the policy by arguing that the targets had received due process and were already subject to final removal orders. Critics have challenged the policy as unconstitutional.
ICE also says its detainer policy requires probable cause to believe a person is a removable alien before an immigration detainer can be issued.
None of that establishes that ICE possesses unlimited authority to detain or search American citizens. Nor does it mean citizens should physically interfere with federal officers, disregard lawful commands involving public safety or intentionally escalate an encounter.
Even organizations sharply critical of ICE advise people not to physically resist agents. Guidance from the ACLU says that when agents lack a judicial warrant, residents may decline entry and state that they do not consent—but should not attempt to forcibly stop officers.
Desherow’s social-media history reportedly contained other intensely political posts.
In one pinned video, she accused conservatives concerned about Islamic law of supporting “fundamentalist extremism” when practiced by white Christians.
“You guys love Sharia law,” she said. “You love fundamentalist extremism when White people are implementing it.”
She also posted criticism of conservative activist Charlie Kirk after his assassination, saying:
“Charlie Kirk inherited the society that he helped create.”
Desherow added:
“Charlie Kirk and other conservative talking heads like him preach stochastic violence endlessly and then whine and cry when they’re the victim of their own f—ing violent rhetoric.”
- Fox News — Oklahoma state agency fires staff attorney after anti-ICE social media tirade
- Fox News — Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation attorney under review after viral anti-ICE video
- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond — Shannon Desherow “does not speak for Oklahoma”
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — Immigration detainers and ICE probable-cause policy
- Associated Press — Immigration officers assert power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, ICE memo says
- Brennan Center for Justice — The Fourth Amendment problem with DHS’s warrantless home-entry policy
- ACLU of Southern California — ICE administrative warrants versus judicial warrants
- American Immigration Council — ICE’s disputed home-entry policy and administrative warrants
