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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Homeland Security got $20M for body cameras. So why weren’t ICE agents wearing them in Maine and Texas shootings?

In the days after federal officers killed two protesters in Minnesota in January, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed that agents nationwide would soon be equipped with body-worn cameras. Then, in April, DHS got another $20 million to get the cameras out in the field.

Three months later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers responsible for fatal shootings in Maine this week and in Texas last week still were not equipped with body cameras, according to officials.

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