A father-of-one, legally authorised to work in the US, was shot dead by federal agents even though he was not the target of their operation — one of two fatal shootings this July that have finally forced America's immigration enforcement agency to put body cameras on its officers, years after the technology was first piloted and quietly shelved.
The killing of Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero, 25, and the death of Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, have plunged US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into its most intense scrutiny yet, with no video evidence to justify either shooting. Now, in a bid to head off the mounting criticism, the agency's director has ordered that at least one body-worn camera be present at every traffic stop, as ICE scrambles to roll out the technology nationwide.
