Amid massive outrage over the shooting of a 37-year-old US citizen by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a former FBI agent analysed the footage of the January 7 shooting and remarked a poignant point.
“The way that these agents are trained, they’re not allowed to fire into a moving vehicle solely for the purpose of disabling the vehicle,” he said.
Campbell also examined the car tyres of the victim, identified as Renee Nicole Good, and said that its movement showed that she was trying to escape the scene. “The driver (Good) was trying to move away from the site, towards the right,” he said.
This also aligned with an eyewitness’ account of the incident who claimed that Good didn’t pose any threat to the agent and was instead trying to leave the scene before she was shot point blank through her car.
Video of the Minneapolis ICE shooting completely contradicting ICE's account that the driver was trying to ram anyone. Looks like they were turning around to leave, and immediately lit up pic.twitter.com/PwUZkPkIVt
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‘This incident has claimed outrage as…’
Campbell claimed that the incident had triggered severe outrage as multiple aspects are at play here. “There is the policy, the law and what agents are allowed to do, and there is also an issue of judgement. Just because you can do something, should you?” he asked.
What are the rights of ICE agents?
According to ICE’s official website, the agency does not need judicial warrants to make arrests. Like all other law enforcement officers, ICE officers and agents can initiate consensual encounters and speak with people, briefly detain aliens when they have reasonable suspicion that the aliens are illegally present in the United States, and arrest people they believe are illegal aliens. ICE officers and agents can also detain and search people crossing the border. As per their official policy, ICE officials can also use reasonable and necessary force when someone resists arrest.
What should people know?
No matter their legal status, everyone is entitled to protection from unreasonable search and seizure and excessive use of force under the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, Jenn Borchetta, deputy director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project said, according to CNN.
“There needs to be a reasonable basis to believe the person they’re stopping is either in the country illegally or otherwise is committing some kind of immigration violation,” she told CNN.