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The justification and scrutiny of the use of force by federal officials
ICE agents are federal law-enforcement officers empowered by federal statutes to investigate, arrest, detain and remove people for immigration-related violations, while local police derive authority f...
Independent investigators — notably The New York Times’ video team, the open-source investigation group Bellingcat, and the Paris-based NGO Index — each synchronized multiple witness, surveillance and...
Local police agencies have largely moved toward restricting or forbidding shooting at moving vehicles and explicitly instruct officers to move out of a vehicle's path when feasible, a practice rooted ...
ICE is operating under aggressive new policies that the administration defends as lawful and necessary, but a growing body of litigation, court rulings, state lawsuits and civil‑rights reporting paint...
The available reporting is sharply divided: federal officials and the Department of Homeland Security say Renee Good “weaponized” her vehicle and attempted to run over an ICE agent, while independent ...
Three nationally reported polls asked questions that explicitly referenced Trump’s actions or federal responses tied to the Minnesota ICE shooting and its aftermath: Quinnipiac asked whether the ICE o...
Public reporting establishes that was a with a permit to carry, a fact repeated by local police and family members , while federal officials publicly asserted that he was found without identification ...
Federal officials initially presented a clear narrative: approached border agents armed with a 9mm handgun and was shot after violently resisting disarmament, a version amplified by leaders and allies...
Two separate 119th‑ s—H.Res.537 (sponsored by ) and H.Res.939—allege that committed “” by abusing presidential power, including unauthorized and other ; the text of each resolution itself supplies the...
, and independent investigators reconstruct an officer’s subjective perception of threat by layering the footage with officer statements, training and experience records, contemporaneous audio and sce...
Body-camera footage and official reports released in recent high-profile detention and use‑of‑force cases have repeatedly revealed sharp contrasts between agency narratives and on-the-ground actions, ...
Eyewitness videos and independent forensic analyses converge on a picture that contradicts early federal claims that “ran over” or deliberately used her vehicle as a weapon; synchronized footage shows...
The federal vetting process for ICE nominally combines standard federal background investigations, drug testing, fingerprinting and continuous vetting after hire; the agency’s public guidance describe...