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:
Politico also reported on this:
ICE surveillance concerns shift Democrats’ demands for body camerasA 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.
Watch this leftist tie himself into knots explaining how police body cameras are a ‘propaganda tool’ of law enforcement.
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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