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I've wondered for a long time why protesters aren't dressing in clothing that would make them resemble ICE, and why they are not covering their faces, wearing hats and dark glasses, etc.
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#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Nicole Cleland was in her car trailing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent through Richfield, Minn., her hometown.
Suddenly, the agent turned into a series of one-way streets and stopped, getting out of his white Dodge Ram, said Ms. Cleland, who volunteers with a local watchdog group that observes the activity of immigration officers. The agent then walked over to Ms. Cleland’s car and surprised her by addressing her as Nicole.
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“He said he had facial recognition and that his body camera was on,” said Ms. Cleland, 56, who had not met the agent before.
Ms. Cleland was one of at least seven American citizens told by ICE agents this month that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology in and around Minneapolis, according to local activists and videos posted to social media, which were verified by The New York Times. None had given consent for their faces to be recorded.