Former NFL Player, Charles ‘Peanut’ Tillman, Explains Reason He Left FBI Job

Former NFL player Charles ‘Peanut’ Tillman recently revealed that he resigned from his job in the FBI due to the current administration’s immigration policies.

The former Chicago Bears cornerback, who left football after the 2015 season, explained the reason he left the government agency while appearing on an episode of “The Pivot.” He had been with the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2018, but with Donald Trump’s push for getting rid of people who weren’t born in the United States, and the arcane way that the government is doing so has disappointed him in such a way that he decided to leave the agency.

He did state that the agency was good to him and he worked with some “amazing group” of people, but the way that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been moving and continues to move since Trump made this a mandate, it didn’t sit well wth him.

“Let me start by saying this: FBI was great to me. I did awesome. I worked with an amazing group of individuals. I think some of the things that they’re doing now, I personally didn’t agree with … immigration. I didn’t agree with how the administration came in and tried to make individuals do things against their, it didn’t sit right. An example being immigration, right? Everybody was told, ‘You’re going to go after the most dangerous criminals,’ but what you see on TV and what actually was happening is, people weren’t going after that. Personally, that didn’t sit right with me; that didn’t sit right with my conscience.”

He did state that the people who are going out to apprehend the immigrants (or those they suspect are immigrants) do not have to do the things they are being asked to do or in the way that it’s being done. However, he wanted to be on “the right side of history,” knowing that the methods and the promise of Trump and his administration shouldn’t be the way that it is.

“I want to be on the right side of history when it’s all said and done. Do I think there are individuals in the organization do they like doing some of the stuff that they’re doing? Absolutely not. I think they hate it. I was in a different position because of my previous career. I made enough money to where I could just walk away and say, ‘You know what, guys? I’m OK. I think I’m good. My first eight years, I’ve been solid; we were doing some good things. Some of the stuff you guys are doing now, I don’t necessarily agree with.’ And that’s not in Chicago, that comes from Washington.’

Tillman was a two-time Pro-Bowl player who was in the NFL from 2003 until retiring after the 2015 season, after playing the bulk of his career with the Bears, playing his last season with the Carolina Panthers.

Former NFL Player, Charles ‘Peanut’ Tillman, Explains Reason He Left FBI Job