A recently viral video from Beaverton, Oregon, shows ICE agents doing something they insist they never do: threatening a U.S. citizen with arrest. And it wasn’t for blocking an operation or interfering in any meaningful sense. But for simply standing on a public sidewalk, filming.
In the footage, multiple Border Patrol and ICE agents surround a man, observing and recording them from a public space. He doesn’t approach their vehicles or obstruct their path. He isn’t shouting or threatening either. The man was doing exactly what the First Amendment allows: Watching and filming (via San Francisco Chronicle). But the agents respond by inventing crimes.
