Overview
- On CNN’s The Situation Room, Pamela Brown pressed McLaughlin after airing a clip of officers asking a Minnesota woman for identification and her place of birth.
- McLaughlin said agents may question people near a targeted operation based on descriptors or suspected obstruction, citing 8 U.S.C. 1357 and reasonable-suspicion authority.
- Brown rejected McLaughlin’s claim that media coverage drives public alarm, arguing viewers are reacting to the videos they see.
- McLaughlin said ICE agents are permitted to wear body cameras and that DHS is working to equip all officers, adding the Jan. 7 shooting was recorded by the agent.
- The exchange follows days of viral encounters and protests in Minneapolis after the killing of Renee Good, identified in reports as shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.