ICE Will Not Reveal Body-camera Footage Unless in Agency's 'best interests'

Saturday, August 08, 2026

Officers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month, it was reported on Friday.

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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 ...

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 10:41 AM Â· Aug 7, 2026

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Hiding evidence?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-07 11:56 AM | Reply

So the "cameras" also function as mini memory holes? I'd no idea portable incinerator technology had gotten so far advanced. (Or are the cameras simply non-functioning? )

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-07 11:57 AM | Reply

Sure. Make a rule so you can try and control the narrative. But if they want to continue existing they better start following the law cooperating with local authorities to investigate possible crimes and become more transparent about it.

Because..

Accountability is coming.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-07 12:03 PM | Reply

"ICE Won't Release BodyCam Footage Unless In Its Interest"

How about a New Rule:

Juries should be instructed anytime a cop's camera is SUPPOSED to be on, but IS NOT on, the victim and witnessess' testimony should be treated as truth, and the cop's testimony should be discounted. Not ignoring, but just realizing the cops should have one strike against them already if they're purposely not following protocol.

#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-07 12:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Whatever happened to the best interests of justice, the law, and the People?

Oh, yeah... Trumpism. Nevermind.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-08-07 02:24 PM | Reply

Shoot a Nazi for Jesus

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-07 03:02 PM | Reply

Dox ICE.

#7 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-08-07 06:09 PM | Reply

Sat on a jury in federal case against a Mexican national driving a rental car from the SW to wherever. He was pulled over by a pair of state troopers way out in western KS. (A profoundly meditative part of the state, as in "mile upon meditative mile.") We jurors watched a trooper's dashcam video, which cut out just as the officers were about to open the rental car's trunk. Somehow that blank screen glitch disappeared as the footage then showed some bricks of cocaine in the trunk. It took some persistence, but that jury did eventually hang.

No bodycam footage supporting an ICE claim? Jury nullification. Sorry, ICE claim gets zero benefit of any doubt.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-08-08 07:24 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The US is on life support. Someone put a bullet in Uncle Sam's brain, just didn't finish the job yet.

My one time on a jury, I ended up as the foreman. Highly instructive, more about the others on the jury in a small city. Congratulations on that persistence.

#9 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-08 08:02 AM | Reply

Surveillance State for Thee, Not For Me.
--Republicans

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-09 12:20 AM | Reply

American citizens expect and deserve strong and secure borders, but Trump has transformed ICE into his brownshirts, to harass people with brown skin or black skin. He was told that demographers have predicted that within about twenty years we whites will no longer be in the majority, and that is intolerable for a racist like Donald Trump.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-09 06:31 AM | Reply