Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that body cameras would be given to federal immigration agents across the country, starting in Minneapolis, where two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by agents in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
“As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide,” she wrote on social media. “We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country.”
Noem did not specifically say agents would be required to wear the cameras.
With as much as cameras have failed to reduce violence by the ordinary police, I can’t see this as much more than a payday for Axon. They’ve been fighting for ICE to get cameras for a while now. As another comment stated, lack of video evidence does not seem to be the weak link in fixing the violence perpetrated by ICE.
(Jacobin)
Not trying to single out Dems in this specifically, they are just the more surprising individuals involved. It just makes me mad that something like this that should be a win for the public seems moreso to be a win for every but the public.
Two people were murdered by these fascist freaks with dozens of angles on each of them and none of them are being thrown in jail for murder so what the fuck will body cameras do huh?
Renee Good’s murderer recorded the incident on his own phone, which was then released as if it was somehow evidence of his innocence.
And they just seem to never have any luck with these cameras when they do have them. They always seem to be off somehow or missing when we need them the most. If they do work, there’s always some unfortunate technicality blocking the FOIA requests. Even the cameras monitoring the most important criminals’ jail cells go on the fritz at just the right moment for them to inhume themselves. But we keep on buying them and paying for all that cloud storage at monopolistic prices.
I wonder what would happen if we spent this camera and other ICE money on providing an efficient means to citizenship instead… 🤔