That’s strange, especially since Democrats cheered when Judge Sara in Chicago demanded all immigration agents wear them. And how Dems demanded all cops wear them post-George “Fentanyl” Floyd
Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool
A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters.
Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used.
Lawmakers and legal observers have accused ICE of leveraging a variety of cameras to surveil protesters, feeding pictures into license plate readers and facial recognition systems. Democrats now worry that the body cameras they’re demanding could be used for similar purposes.
Let’s be honest, body cams were 99% the worst thing the Democrats could have demanded, because they showed that 99% of the time cops are just doing their jobs. That they aren’t raaaaacist. That they aren’t doing bad things. That it is the perps who are at fault. And now you have all those body cam vids showing up on social media for everyone to see. The entitlement, the idiocy, the Main Character Syndrome. People not taking responsibility for their own bad behavior, and so often making it much worse. Turning speeding tickets into felony arrests.
And how’s that going to work out when ICE body cams show the utter insanity of the pro-illegal alien nutballs? How they’re interfering with sworn federal agents in the midst of their duties? Spiking roads? Blocking ICE vehicles? Etc and so on?
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say they want to tack on restrictions to how ICE can use body camera footage, according to a letter sent to Republican leadership on Wednesday night.
“Prohibit tracking, creating or maintaining databases of individuals participating in First Amendment activities,” the letter says.
Once you interfere with law enforcement activities those 1st Amendment activities end. You’re no longer protesting peaceably. But, again, this is about federal agents catching Chuck and Hakeem’s voters breaking the law and being caught on video, which doesn’t play well for defendants in court. Or, on social media, as we’ve seen.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who proposed a ban on ICE agents using facial recognition, also supported surveillance limits on body cameras.
“Use the body cams but don’t actually use them!”
A bill that would require some of the largest, most profitable oil and gas companies in history to pay damages for disasters fueled by climate change is back on the table after the Oregon Legislature failed to pass it less than a year ago.
When Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat of Nevada, briefed fellow moderate senators in her party this week about new research on voters’ views ahead of the midterm elections, she had grim but familiar news.
A group of young activists has launched a high-stakes legal challenge against the Swedish government, alleging that the nation’s current climate targets are not only inadequate but a violation of international law.
About a year ago, a very nice family moved into the rental home next door. We have shared food and invited them to our pool in the summer, and we always exchange greetings from yard to yard.
