For citizens filming ICE violence, Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner, and Andy Greenberg offer tips assembled from speaking to those who have used the radical act of pointing video cameras at authority figures for activism, in the media, and in court. The tips cover what to before, while, and after filming, and also if your video is used in court.
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Further proof that ICE and other officials have sometimes profiled protestors they target and know in advance the identity of citizen witnesses they assault:
"Less than 40 minutes after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis, Clayton Kelly was thrown face-first onto the sidewalk, tasting snow and street grime as a federal agent’s knee drove into his back."
~ Austin Campbell
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/31/minneapolis-protester-witness-killing-alex-pretti/
"The incident, a video of which The Intercept reviewed and corroborated with an independent eyewitness, occurred not long after Kelly and his wife arrived in the area where Pretti was killed. With protesters amassing and agents from Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement flooding the area, the couple told The Intercept, they just wanted to observe the scene."
“'All of a sudden,' Kelly said, a federal agent 'started running toward me, pointing and yelling, "That’s him. Get him."'
Ten days earlier, Kelly had watched as an immigration agent shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg during a federal enforcement action in north Minneapolis. ...
At the scene of Pretti’s killing, Kelly told agents they would find themselves 'on the wrong side of history,' he recalled."
"The recent federal raid on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson isn’t merely an attack by the Trump administration on the free press. It’s also a warning to anyone with a smartphone."
~ Nikita Mazurov
#CBP #ICE #iphone #smartphone #violence #resistance
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https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/