Officers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month, it was reported on Friday. But experts have questioned the transparency of a policy that allows the ICE director to restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”.
If not gestapo then why do gestapo things?
I feel like there was legislation passed federally after BLM that stated departments had to release body cam footage publicly if requested? I know atleast for police officers.
Does that not apply for ICE?
All they’ve done is state plainly what has always been every law enforcement agency’s unofficial policy regarding body-cam footage and made it official. ICE is what the police want to be but can’t be seen openly as, a fascist paramilitary occupying force. The only reason police keep up the appearance of transparency and accountability is because mass movements and the threat of them has forced them to. ICE is as yet unburdened by that baggage, though they got a taste of it after the surge in Minneapolis and they briefly had to pretend to change by firing Kristi Noem.
Somebody needs to be following Susan Collins and screaming this, with a sign, 24/7
This was known btw when they started pushing for body cams.
So if they don’t release it we can assume they were in the wrong. Now we need the media to start reporting like that’s the case. “ICE refused to release the video because it will make them look bad or show guilt, per their own statements”. Then the courts need to start ruling that way as admission of guilt when video and other evidence is withheld or destroyed.
And just why is this left up to them?
Because all anyone else has to stop them is words and stuff. The are no actual consequences, so they can make their own rules. They also have the support of the President who’s been leading by example himself.
So it’s along the same lines as regular cops except instead of the hardware/footage mYsTeRiOuSlY “malfunctioned”, “corrupt footage” or “deleted” every time they are under investigation for excessive brutality or gross negligence
the getapoice can just say “fuck you, no”So, by the transitive property, if the footage is not released then it assumed to be not in the agency’s best interests?
Also every camera malfunction they try to claim, or footage gone missing, it’s all just an admission of wrong doing.
and what little might get released is carefully crafted to support their own (and most likely, totally bullshit) narrative. the rest of the clip, the rest of the videos from all the other cameras… they don’t exist.
So now, as a potential grand juror, I can now be certain that anything a prosecutor says is absolutely not true unless they produce the video evidence unequivocally proving it so.
Thank you for helping me make a better decision.
(I know ICE doesn’t have jurors, but I assume this will be officially adopted by other departments.
Logically, I don’t think so. They said basically that if something’s released, it’s in their best interests. So, Released(x) --> BestInterestsOfICE(x).
You can’t derive !Released(x) --> !BestInterestsOfICE(x) from that statement.
Yes you can actually. You’d be correct if they were supposed to release everything, like a daily upload to public channels of every single bodycam in the organization, but that is not and never has been a thing.
You can derive that under the conditions that exist every time releasing footage becomes a consideration. Yes that is not how general logic works but general logic is not universally applicable.
Our taxes paid for that footage. It belongs to all of us. Period.
We need representatives with some backbone
The audacity with taxpayer salaries. Fuck ICE.
Every agency of the government should have only one interest, the well being of the people.
You’re speaking crazy, man! a government for the people, by the people?? Do you even hear yourself??
Of course they won’t. The number one principle about ICE is that it can not and will not be held accountable to anyone but itself and the President.
The president is like Roman and Chinese emperors: to be disposed of, if the Praetorian Guard or eunuchs finds it in their interest to do so.
Trump is more a sock puppet than a man.
Why do you think conservatives funded it so hard?
Yep, that’s the point.
So…never?
They’ll edit it down to make protesters look bad and them look good and release that.
See how that protestor assaulted the ICE vehicle with their body?!?
“Oh that Rodney King murder tape, it all depends on how you look at it…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHvwBwTnAc
An aside: JFC, Bill Hicks seems more relevant than ever these days. I know, I know, he was a “boomer” though, so we should probably all ignore his body of work…
Generational strife is just there to distract from the class war being waged against us.
the transparency of a policy that allows the ICE director to restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”.
Lets see how made up department policy stands up to a FOIA request in front of a federal judge.
