(Washington) All federal agents reporting to the Department of Homeland Security will be equipped with body-worn cameras in Minneapolis and then in the rest of the United States, Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Monday, responding to a demand from Democrats to lift the budgetary paralysis.
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After the death of a second demonstrator against the mass arrests of immigrants in Minneapolis, killed by federal police officers, the United States entered budgetary paralysis last week, with Democrats demanding significant reforms in the methods of action of its agents to vote on the department’s budget.
In particular, they demand the systematic use of body-worn cameras, a ban on the wearing of balaclavas and even that a judicial warrant precede any arrest of immigrants.
“I just spoke with Tom Homan and the Directors of Immigration Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol,” says his XM accountme Noem, in reference to the person responsible for the policy of expulsions of immigrants dispatched by Donald Trump to Minneapolis to try to restore calm.
“Effective immediately, we are distributing body worn cameras to all officers on the ground in Minneapolis. As funding becomes available, the body-worn camera program will be expanded nationally,” said the secretary, assuring that this measure would be applied “quickly” in the rest of the country.
The city of Minneapolis is shaken by the death of Alex Pretti on January 24, which follows that of another protester, Renee Good, killed on January 7 while driving her car by an ICE agent.
