Homeland Security wants to know who's anonymously posting about ICE

The Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown has been meticulously documented through smartphones—most recently, in the anonymous bystander videos of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shooting Renee Good in Minneapolis (MN). The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under President Trump, has argued that recording and publishing images of its officers while on operations is a crime that threatens officials’ safety. As DHS tries to crack down on accountability videos and as protests against ICE escalate, the ability to post videos of ICE anonymously is being challenged in a California court. On January 14, a judge for the US District Court of the Northern District of California will hear DHS’s argument in a case that—though unrelated—could have repercussions for groups that have filmed and uploaded sightings of officers on social media over the last year.