ICE will limit public release of body camera 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.”

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...

How convenient? ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says www.chicoer.com/2026/08/07/i...

“In some ways, ICE is saying the quiet part out loud,” he said. “Body-worn cameras are being used as contemporary image-work tools to present the police to the public in the most favorable way possible.” A consistent authoritarian move.

When in the “best interests” of the agency? When did this become a public relations tool and not a justice for all tool?

I hope every elected official who politely asked ICE to wear body cameras and let Bill Kristol outflank them to the left on anti-surveillance state policy can stomach all the propaganda videos of state executions that the regime is about to pump out

wmtw.com/article/ice-... Go to Hell ICE, this does nothing to keep our streets safer.

There’s no reason for them to wear body cameras if they’re not going to share the video!

ICE will release body camera video only when in agency's 'best interests' * * which, duh, attempts to defeat the whole purpose of the cameras. So, that’s a big, fat, Trump-sized “NO” from me. apnews.com/article/ice-...

It's only the most self serving and outrageously questionable "company policy" I've ever seen. apnews.com/article/ice-...

"But the agency’s body-worn camera policy could mean taxpayers who are pitching in tens of millions of dollars to pay for the cameras may be kept in the dark about some high-profile confrontations, at least in their immediate aftermath."

Not in the interest of the public. Not in the interest of justice. Only when it's in the agency's best interest.... #Copaganda www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

So the paramilitary thugs are getting body cameras? I’m more concerned they preserve the footage to assist a new batch of US attorneys in 2029 in filing criminal cases. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Oh? Well then it’s in our best interests to abolish ICE. abcnews.com/US/wireStory...

So, ICE now says it will have taxpayer-funded body cameras deployed on its agents by the end of September, but will release camera video captures only if it’s in the agency’s best interest. Well isn’t that convenient. Who do these people work for. I think it’s supposed to be “We the people.”