Democrats Suddenly Oppose Law Enforcement Body Cameras They Demanded
“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”
Democrats are backtracking on their own demand that ICE agents wear body cameras. They’re suddenly concerned that those cameras will be used to track and surveil anti-ICE protesters, which seems like an admission that they know those people are their base voters.
This isn’t the first time this issue has backfired on Democrats. Following their anti-police push in 2020, Democrats wanted all law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, but that didn’t work out the way they planned. Instead of showing LEOs in a bad light, it showed them to be professionals who often deal with violence directed at them.
Bill Melugin of FOX News reported on this yesterday. Stay with this video to the end:
NEW: Congress has until the end of Friday to reach a deal on DHS funding, and Republicans are calling some Dem demands non-starters. Now, some Dems are worried that ICE bodycams would be used to surveil anti-ICE protesters, and they want restrictions on how the cams can be used. pic.twitter.com/KnF4TnDd20
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 9, 2026
Politico also reported on this:
ICE surveillance concerns shift Democrats’ demands for body cameras
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…
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who proposed a ban on ICE agents using facial recognition, also supported surveillance limits on body cameras.
“Obviously we want them to be wearing body cameras, but we would want restrictions placed on what that information could be used for,” Markey said. “We want to make sure that we have the accountability for how these officers conduct themselves on the streets of our country, but we don’t want it in turn to be used as a way of coming back and suppressing free speech.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump would not accept any deals that undermine ICE’s enforcement capabilities.
This is such a huge self-own for Democrats.
This is one of the fastest Lib Virtuous Thing You Must Support Or You Are Bad to Actually, the Former Virtuous Thing Is Bad Now shifts I've ever seen. https://t.co/ziI5TyLQ52
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 9, 2026
When you're Big Mad that video cameras are undermining your narrative, your narrative is bullshit https://t.co/EefspZHgXX
— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 10, 2026
“Body cameras are an absolutely essential tool for good policing and … oh, wait one moment please. We have some new information. Body cameras are Hitler.” https://t.co/8bpapvJ7Ci
— John Bicknell (@JohnBick1960) February 9, 2026
Democrats' memories are short, apparently. pic.twitter.com/PZmRHCD0ME
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 8, 2026
Watch this leftist tie himself into knots explaining how police body cameras are a ‘propaganda tool’ of law enforcement.
Leftist author says “well-meaning liberals” have been fooled into supporting bodycams, which should stop being used.
“They have been an essential propaganda tool."
Yet leftists want every one of their militant wingnuts filming law enforcement.
Interesting how that works. pic.twitter.com/650QTEuh0l
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 27, 2026
It’s like they don’t even care about the issues. Everything is just looked at through the lens of regaining political power because that’s all they really care about.
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If one does not want to be immortalized on “ICE’s Greatest Hits” as well as individual officers’ personal highlight reels, they should stay away from places where ICE is working. I have no fear of ever being on any of those videos.
Follows a wise piece of advice I got years ago. “If you wanna stay outta bar room fights, stay outta bar rooms.”
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E_fFuX2oXj4/maxresdefault.jpg
Hands up, don’t film.
I wish I came up with that. Nice!
Dems the only standard a double standard
Markey absolutely needs to be invited to a blanket party. He is scum.
There is nothing wrong with using body cams to identify violent protestors. There is nothing wrong with using facial recognition to identify violent protestors,
To be against these is to be against good law enforcement, civil rights, and common sense. These are tools which allow the appropriate violent protestors to be identified, arrested, sentenced, and convicted. These allow innocent individuals to not have to go through such a process.
Democrats like Markey are anti-American scum who only care about power and control except in Markey’s case he is too stupid too think and is just doing what his handler’s tell him to do.
Like a large flock of birds turning on a dime.
The Marxists keep trying with one stage planning.
they also oppose:
peace in the world
blacks not being happy and off welfare
children not being m0 lested
themselves
As the libs have reminded repeatedly, videoing activity taking place in public is not illegal. This sword cuts both ways. Police body cams perforce record LE interactions with both suspects/criminals and the law-abiding. Body cams protect both sets of citizens from illegal LE actions.
Why would anyone be against this? Oh, yeah. Liberals. It’s not the result that counts, it’s about gaining submission to the demand.
This. The leftist anarchists in MN are chasing ICE around filming them and demanding they unmask but suddenly they are discovering privacy rights and don’t want to be filmed themselves.
One of the biggest self owns in history.
they take out the shot spotters
they dont allow the police to pursue criminals
or the DAs to do the same etc
they want chaos they want war they love violence
they know people are comfortable and they want to upend that
if if not met with sufficient force they will continue to run americans into the ground
If it weren’t for double standards those communist traitors wouldn’t have any standards at all
They wanted body cameras, give them to them. Whatever the cameras capture can be used. We already know that the use of body cams clears police far more often than it condemns them.
dems will once again change their pr back to wanting the cameras as soon as they see how they can edit people in and out of scenes etc
oh look,,,trump is wearing an ice uniform and tackling little children
The left continues to act as if they’re simply demonstrating, not interfering and baiting violence. They don’t want us to see THAT — remember that lefties harass and attack anyone filming them.
“Democrats are [now] calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used”
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This would be hilarious if I didn’t fully expect the Senate republicans to cave.
Of course, the entire point of a protest is to be publicly visible, and certainly the protesters themselves take video at every opportunity and from multiple angles.
They don’t object to cameras, they object to losing control of the edit.
They know that they will show constant law breaking by “peaceful protestors”. Because there are almost no peaceful protestors.
Democrats obviously didn’t think this lie all the way through—no surprise because the whine du jour changes like the wind. FIRST, body cameras were vital to showing ICE was the Gestapo. But, all of a sudden these Demtards realized body cameras record the Red Guard getting in ICE faces and the ICE officers acting like the professional police they are. Oops! Can’t have body camera then! It doesn’t help the lie!
If a public-facing LEO does not have a body camera, my first thought is that they are impersonating a police officer. Also, body cameras should always be on except for going to the bathroom and similar. Then the LEO should announce that they are turning off their body camera because (Insert reason here). If something happens while the camera is off, the non-LEO’s version of events shall be presumed true.
The passage is a direct quote from the novel, Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson. Julia is the former POTUS, who illegally saved herself from dying by hitching a ride on a spacecraft. Doob is a Neil deGrasse Tyson-like person. Luisa is his assistant. Julia has fomented a rebellion which cost a number of people their lives. It was published in 2015, toward the end of the Obama era, likely anticipating the 2016 election, though I’m sure the author would have denied it. Here’s the relevant passage.
“It is a statistical problem,” Doob said. “On about A+0.7 it stopped being a Newtonian mechanics problem and turned into statistics. It has been statistics ever since. And it all boils down to the distribution of bolide sizes, and of the orbits in which they are moving, and how those distributions are changing over time—which we can only know from observation and extrapolation. And you know what, Julia? Even if we had perfect knowledge of every single one of those statistical parameters, we still wouldn’t be able to predict the future. Because we have an n of 1. Only one Cloud Ark, only one Izzy to work with. We can’t run this experiment a thousand times to see the range of different outcomes. We can only run it once. The human mind has trouble with situations like that. We see patterns where they don’t exist, we find meaning in randomness.
Yup A minute ago you were casting doubt on whether dirty space was really that dirty at all—obviously arguing in favor of Dump and Run. Then I told you about what just happened to Arklet 52 and now you’re swinging around to the other point of view. You are not helping, Julia. You are not helping.”
Julia did not look to be accepting Doob’s remarks in the spirit intended. Instead she squinted through the screen at him and shook her head slightly. “I don’t understand the intensity of your reaction, Dr. Harris.”
“This conversation is over,” Doob said, and hung up on her. He then fought off a temptation to slam the tablet down on the table. Instead he sat back in his chair and looked Luisa in the eye for the first time in a while. On one level he’d wanted to watch her face the whole time. But Julia would have noticed that, would have figured out that someone else was in the room, silently listening. Just as someone had probably been doing at Julia’s end. Luisa just sat there in her listening shrink mode. “It would be easier,” Doob said, “if I could figure out what the hell she wanted.”
“You’re assuming,” Luisa said, “that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.”
[. ]
“To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?” Doob asked.
“What’s the difference?” Luisa asked.
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