DHS Orders 1 Body Camera per ICE Arrest Team After 2 Fatal Shootings
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Updated · KABC-TV · Jul 15
DHS Orders 1 Body Camera per ICE Arrest Team After 2 Fatal Shootings
3 articles · Updated · KABC-TV · Jul 15
Summary
ICE has been told to equip every arrest team with an individual body camera nationwide after agents in Texas and Maine fatally shot two men while not wearing cameras.
DHS also directed ICE to pause most vehicle stops in the days after the shootings, according to sources, tightening field operations beyond the camera mandate.
The two men killed were 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, cases that renewed scrutiny because neither was the intended target.
DHS said attacks on its officers have surged more than 1,300% and vehicle attacks 3,300%, while a spokesperson said body-camera purchases had been interrupted by the government shutdown.