Rochelle Bilal, a Muslim convert, who calls herself ‘Sheriff’, appeared alongside pro-crime Soros DA Larry Krasner, to bluster about fighting any efforts at federal immigration law enforcement.
Bilal ranted incoherently that ICE was “fake, wannabe law enforcement” and threatened “if any want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide, nobody will whisk you off. You don’t want this smoke, cause we will bring it to you. … The criminal in the White House would not be able to keep you from going to jail.”
Philadelphia “Sheriff” @PhilaSheriff Rochelle Bilal should resign before she embarrasses herself any further.
“Arresting ICE officers”?
Try it. See what happens. pic.twitter.com/IZgvHN9RyV
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) January 10, 2026
What you may ask does a ‘sheriff’ do in Philadelphia? Not a whole lot.
Philadelphia’s actual police answer to Commissioner Kevin Bethel who was forced to issue a statement that, in response to all the messages, “the City of Philadelphia is policed by the Philadelphia Police Department, not the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office”.
“The Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office is a separate entity, led by an elected official, currently Rochelle Bilal, with a mission that includes court security” and the usual glamorous stuff that sheriffs tend to do in northeastern cities like legal processes and property sales.
Personnel from the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office are much more likely to be arrested by the feds than the other way around.
To go back to a time before the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office was consumed by scandal, you’d have to time-travel at least three decades. Ex-Sheriff John Green, the city’s longest-serving sheriff, is now in the midst of his five-year prison sentence for a bribery scheme he led from the office. Green’s successor, Jewell Williams, who lost his reelection bid, has been credibly accused of sexual harassment multiple times — in lawsuits that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands in settlements. Now, Sheriff Rochelle Bilal is accused by three staffers of ignoring sexual harassment claims, asking employees to break the law, financial impropriety, and retaliation against employees who spoke up.
And the FBI was already looking into her.
With just days to go before a Democratic primary in which first-term Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal faces two challengers, three longtime staff members of the office have together reached out to Philadelphia to disclose that the FBI questioned them in April about her spending and managerial actions, including her decision to stop using financial monitoring software to track the office’s expenditures… Each reported being asked similar questions — for instance, about payments for a party at Chickie’s & Pete’s and a proposal by Bilal to more than double her own salary.
But I’m sure Rochelle Billal will dispatch the process servers to take on ICE… as soon as they find their guns.
The Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office can’t account for nearly 200 guns, despite statements the sheriff made suggesting that her office had not misplaced any weapons, according to a new report released by the City Controller.
Of all the people who shouldn’t “want this smoke”, Ms. Bilal should be at the top of the list.
