ICE will limit public release of body camera footage
ICE is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Siri Hallandren75In short, they plan to use footage as propaganda, but not as a form of accountability.
thediggler.bsky.social38So they’re spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars just to build a private highlight reel for Trump and Miller.
Cliff W. Gilmore31Having served 20+ as a US Marine Corps public affairs professional, I can say with 100% that’s not how government accountability to the tax payers it serves works at ALL. Policies must align w/ the law, & the laws governing release of information are grounded in transparency, not opacity.
NBC News22The rollout comes after recent fatal shootings by officers enforcing President Trump’s immigration crackdown have intensified pressure for accountability that the cameras could provide. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
kenofseattle19ICE will be living in the same prisons they're building soon. Their detention centers will soon home to the ICE terrorists themselves.
SurfRockitt7So they have dump trucks of money but don't yet have cameras, but when they do, they will fully control the narrative by disseminating only favorable/staged video. ICE CBP must be abolished, and everyone inside investigated and prosecuted
Dorcas E5🇺🇸 has become a police state under Trump’s Project 2025.
It's me3So basically body cams are for internal snuff films then
Lady with an opinion3That’s not how body cameras are supposed to work unless you are a fascist regime
📎Sprout3Because murder never looks good. #FUCKICE
Angry Byrd2If it helps our case we will show you the footage, if we were suspect in our actions, we must pretend we were right regardless, and in order to maintain our lies you cannot see the footage.
This was entirely predictable: “ICE will promptly release video of shootings and other encounters in which its agents cause death or serious injury only after determining “it is in the best interests of the agency” to do so.”
Steve Held89This is just going to lead to more propaganda and charges against protesters, observers, and immigrants—not accountability. Congrats to everyone who pushed for this.
Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid11ICE is an extrajudicial human trafficking operation and must be abolished. It cannot be "fixed."
jen6a very succinct explanation of why body cams are the reform that law enforcement wanted and why we cannot stop there
Syditious2Straight to jail. Every single one of them.
Andy Sternberg1Editor failed to remove “promptly” from that sentence 🙄
Hypervisible 68Everyone should read “The Body Camera The Language of Our Dreams” by @equalityalec.bsky.social
Joshua Eaton31That is … not an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act.
Aaron Cynic23One of a very long list of reasons why there's no reforming ICE.
John Breen16Many of us have been saying for a long time that body cameras don’t work and they actually make it easier for cops to surveil people
Jerry Boyle13Body cams are bullshit. In Chicago it’s set up so we can’t get them for a long time. But the cops can release them immediately if it serves their purposes.
estarianne11LMAO, how's reform working out there Democrats?
That’s All Lovely8hey, folks, this is what US cops have been doing since forever
Joe Gordon51) this is easy; abolish the agency if they don’t do it in 100% of cases where they discharge their weapons, and 2) abolish the agency anyway, fuck them they don’t get to decide if we hold them accountable for their murders and maiimings and kidnappings
Alan Cunningham3I wonder, when candidates say they only support reform and not abolishment of ICE, what would they say to this Because yes this is Trump, but it’s also the senior leadership, it’s the SACs and Section Chiefs, it’s the culture of the agency, and yes it’s the agent who joined in April of 2025
CavsKermit 3If Stephen Miller had any hand in making the determination that it was in ICE's *best interests* to release the footage, I'd be nervous as a member of the administration.
Equipping ICE officers with body cameras is supposed to provide transparency and accountability. If footage is only released when it’s “in the best interests of the agency,” it’s not doing either.
what25Who could have possibly foreseen that ICE would do the thing cops have been doing since they got body cameras
Thembo13Yeah my dude its kinda like reforming an evil organization of evil people created only to do evil things is doomed to failure. Kinda like abolishing the organization entirely is the only reasonable and moral option.
Martians Against Musk10Defund ICE. It cannot be reformed.
2findout.bsky.social6Abolish ICE. We dont need it. I know you are old enough to remember that. Its creation was some wierd attempt to blame immigrants for Saudi Arabia attacking us.
If ICE isn't allowed to do it then neither is Gritty.5This is how all police use body cameras.
jen3this is what body cameras have always been for, it's why cops wear them at all
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats125This is a thing that a lot of us tried to tell you, way back in 2014: Body-worn cameras alone will not create more transparency and accountability *If It Is The People Wearing The Cameras Who Get To Decide When And How To Release The Footage.* THIS SHOULD NOT BE UP TO THEM.
David J. Bier71Why would Congress give them millions that they do not need to put on body worn surveillance cams without requiring them to disclose the footage of all uses of force? It’s ridiculous. Now it’s just a propaganda and surveillance tool
✨queer commie terrorist✨64brother how do you think the cops have been using body cams so far? like is this being naïve or some weird selective outrage?
Grudgie the Whale22The best interests of the agency are in direct opposition to the interests of the nation and its people
Bort8ALMOST LIKE THEY'RE NOT ACTING IN GOOD FAITH IS IT MARK
🐸🖕🐸 Heartless Creatures3No, shit. Why don't you find out if the murderers are still on the fucking job. Your friend and fellow pedo protector Markwayne Shitkicker should be able to provide you with answers. @markwarner.bsky.social
ICE Shot Two More Men With No Cameras: Senate Says February Pledges Were Never Kept Senators demand Mullin and Homan testify as Chairman Paul has not responded to July 31 letter www.techtimes.com/articles/323...
dabxdee.bsky.social1Your tax dollars hard at work... Harassing, hunting and killing you... On your dime
Bill1Paul is too busy trying to railroad Dr. Fauci.
@markwarner.bsky.social @amyklobuchar.com ....how many more of us have to die while you figure how to "reform" the Gestapo?
Joseph TW1Can you imagine those two arrogant j.o.'s testifying? Their insolence should be met with contempt charges
Artemis1So Collins deal with ICE is pure BS?
Zachary “Mushroom” Hunter1This is what they were created for.
ICE is a domestic terrorist group determined to cover up its crimes.
Edie Babbe 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪3A publicly funded domestic terrorist group.
OODad2ICE is the American Gestapo. An indelible stain on our country’s history, and it’s all on Trump and his fascist regime.
Regina Schrambling 1Somewhere warm, Osama Bin Laden is smirking. He knew white America would do this to itself.
Billy Juggernaut Antifa1ICE are the modern day Brown Shirts.
zobear.bsky.social1"I will only release things in my best interests" should stand up in court, amirite
twentyninedollars.bsky.social1Those people in ICE and the DHS are insane. They're drunk on power. They must be held accountable to rules, and laws, if not then they're simply not serving the United States or its people, but an autocrat and some sense of hatred of immigrants.
How very Trumpian of them. ICE is equipping officers with body cameras, but don’t worry, you’ll only get to see the footage they decide is in their “best interests.” Transparency, MAGA-style. apnews.com/article/ice-...
Batty o_O6Batteries wear out at the most imporune moments.
factsonly007.bsky.social4I fucking hate every person who has ever backed this dumb vile MF
julesp1.bsky.social4I paid for those fucking cameras
Pretti Good Ferrerman2Will there ever be a director's cut available on DVD?
A. Bull Moose2Nothing to see here. no one should try to push back on this
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No public interest? "(E)xperts 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”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
straightarrow67.bsky.social4The cameras aren't for the best interests of the agency. They're for the best interest of the public.
Mea Culpa4"If you stop the testing, the COVID numbers will go down." DJT Same energy.
dabxdee.bsky.social3Your tax dollars hard at work... Harassing, hunting and killing you. Your oppression is their profession.
mayan205.bsky.social3All protestors need to be wearing BODY CAMERAS!!!!! As a form of self protection an honest form of self protection, protection that the whole world has on sight access too so there can be NO COVER UPS OR MISSING FILM OR DAMAGED FOOTAGE!
Gonzo3These are public records, just like other law enforcement related records (using "law enforcement" loosely). These should be preserved, and should be available upon request unless a good cause basis to withhold is presented. "We don't feel like it because it makes us look bad" is not good cause.
OKI🍁🇨🇦C’est Moi from Treaty 7 land2Translation ‘no release of footage if it means ICE will be charged with anything’
