A federal judge again Friday ordered agents in Chicago for immigration operations to wear and turn on their body cameras, telling them “that was not a suggestion.”
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis issued the order Thursday, citing concerns about increasingly violent clashes between federal agents deployed in Operation Midway Blitz and the public, and their use of tear gas against protesters.
Ellis said her order requires any federal agents working under Operation Midway Blitz to wear body cameras and keep them on during all “law enforcement activities.”
If there’s any one group of people in our society I’d support having always-on cameras, (like Larry Ellison, soon to be part owner of TikTok claims all people should have) it would be law enforcement agents.
You do not get to wield that much power over people without personal sacrifice.
“It’s a violation of my privacy!”- you’re on the job and have the power to ruin or even end someone’s life. Deal with it. Privacy for the governed, not for the wielders of government power.
I would like to see politicians have always-on cameras as well. No more backroom deal bullshit.
Let’s take all that “judge issues verbal ‘smackdown’ to government lawyers who aren’t the source of problem and don’t even want to be there at this point” energy, and push it over to:
“And since you can’t follow court orders, I’m directing the prosecution to draw up an order for me to sign designating which law enforcement body is going to be enforcing this on your officers going forward. Any federal personnel not wearing an activated body camera, starting on Tuesday, are going to be subjected to a 3-day stay in custody for civil contempt of my order. I trust they won’t attempt to resist that enforcement and so they won’t have to face criminal charges for obstruction, is that right, counsel?”
I’d like to up your suggestion one notch, how about any charges brought by federal agents not complying with judicial order are summarily dismissed with prejudice. ANY charge. Trespass? Dismissed. Disorderly conduct? DIsmissed. Punching a nazi in the face? Dismissed.
Add in "agents without an active body cam cannot be considered to be acting in an official capacity at the time, and therefore do not have immunity from state charges granted under the supremacy clause, nor do they have qualified imunity. "
Then were cooking.
…“and therefore will be considered to be thugs with illegal firearms menacing the public.”
CASTLE DOCTRINE, MUTHAFUCKAS !
Or is that just a defence for wipepo ?
That is generally how it works, that’s why reading Miranda is something that’s always done. It’s called “fruit of the poisoned tree.” I have no idea if it’ll play out that way, but given that they’ve had trouble even getting grand juries to return indictments in the first place it seems pretty plausible.
Maybe I wasn’t clear yesterday; that wasn’t a suggestion," she told lawyers for the Trump administration. “I am modifying the temporary restraining order to include body-worn cameras.”
“It’s not up for debate,” she added.
Plaster that on a shirt and wear it everywhere. Church, work, school, getting ice cream, watching an old movie at the drive-in you like, on a fishing boat, at a horse track, picking up gummies, during sex…
Did the judge include steep penalties on switching the cameras off and such shennegans?
Any arrest should be nullified if the agent isn’t recording with their bodycam.
They don’t arrest people, they disappear them.
Can the camera order be nullified if they aren’t performing “law enforcement activity”? We already know these are not legal
arrestskidnappings.
It is if there are no consequences for NOT wearing one.
Yeah, that’s what’s going to win the day. Defeatist whining.
Keep it up, Eeyore. We didn’t storm the beaches of Normandy without a violin in every hand.
I wonder where all those body cameras will come from. That new electronics manufacturer in Alabama? or China with that 130% tariff that el jefe imposed?
Doesn’t matter.
Oh shucks: they can’t go beat up brown people for funzies until the Amazon delivery guy shows up.
Can’t train ai Skynet when cameras are off
