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Video footage captured ICE agents roughly tackling an elderly man at a Las Vegas airport; when they realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the man with a handcuff still attached to one arm. The incident sparked outrage over the agency's tactics.
Video footage captured ICE agents roughly tackling an elderly man at a Las Vegas airport. When the agents realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the man with a handcuff still attached to one arm. The incident was captured on camera and the agents abandoned the enforcement action mid-process.
The behavior here is striking: the agents proceeded with the encounter until cameras became visible, then stopped and left. It suggests they were either uncomfortable with the optics of what they were doing or recognized the detainee wasn't actually a priority. An elderly man left with a cuff attached while officers withdrew is a tangible result of being filmed—they didn't finish what they started. It's a data point about how enforcement behavior changes when there's documentation happening in real time.
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