DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'

Post by yencabulator » Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 5:45 PM UTC

drewcoo wrote: post #40

k310 wrote: post #13

ICE "officers" are almost always. A. Without badges, or have badges without numbers. Toy-store style. B. Are faceless. C. Do not have names displayed. D. Do not have warrants. These were mentioned, IIRC, in an ACLU complaint which resulted in restraining orders (see [0]) though the order addressed two points not specifically related to the above. > The first TRO bars immigration agents from stopping individuals witho…

And the SCOTUS says photographing LEOs is protected. https://johndrogerslaw.com/the-first-amendmeAVnt-and-photogr...

Broken link, here you go: https://johndrogerslaw.com/the-first-amendment-and-photograp...

Post by queenkjuul » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 3:04 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #15

anigbrowl wrote: post #8

Last week I saw some dashcam video of a masked ICE agent (or similar, they don't have uniforms or proper identification) leaping out of a car and pointing a gun at someone who photographed the car's license plate. Appellate courts in the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits have all held there's a first amendment right to film police, and that law enforcement officers do not have an expectation…

> dashcam video of a masked ICE agent (or similar, they don't have uniforms or proper identification) leaping out of a car and pointing a gun at someone who photographed the car's license plate We're unfortunately waiting for one of those ICE agents, on camera, to pull the trigger and kill or brutally maim someone doing nothing other than filming, or worse an innocent bystander. It doesn't seem like our political sys…

Training or not, cops clearly really do want to shoot everyone they point their gun at, often do, and usually get away with it

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