• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    “Maybe I wasn’t clear yesterday; that wasn’t a suggestion,” she told lawyers for the Trump administration. “I am modifying the temporary restraining order to include body-worn cameras.”

    “It’s not up for debate,” she added.

    Federal agents at large wear body cameras but federal agents in Chicago have not been.

    A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security called the ruling an “extreme act of judicial activism.”

    I can’t believe +/- half of the US population fall for this bullshit rhetoric. But then I couldn’t believe it in 2016, 2020 and 2024 either.

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      When they ‘comply’ by wearing them and not turning them on, and then turning them on but not recording, and then recording but not keeping the recordings, and then losing the recordings, they will still believe the bullshit being fed to them.

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    So, if federal agents in Chicago are not wearing body cams we can assume they’re not really cops?