General Discussion

Some ICE agents wear body cameras...but not everywhere
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Bystander videos showed an ICE agent shooting and killing a driver in south Minneapolis. It is not clear whether the ICE agent had a body-worn camera that recorded what happened right before the shooting.

ICE started issuing body-worn cameras to agents in select cities in 2024. Minneapolis was not one of the cities in the first phase of implementation. However, agents from across the country have been assigned as part of an enforcement surge in Minnesota in recent weeks.

"The use of BWCs in appropriate circumstances may be beneficial to the execution of many of ICE’s operations and may also promote public trust," wrote Caleb Vitello, the Acting Director of ICE.

But the policy made clear that body-worn cameras had not been implemented across the agency. "Enterprise-wide implementation shall be dependent on availability of appropriated funding resources," the policy stated.