Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday, in the latest fallout after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal agents.
Noem said the body-worn camera program is being expanded nationwide as funding becomes available.
“We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” Noem said in a social media post on X.
The news of the body cameras comes as Minneapolis has been the site of intense scrutiny over the conduct of federal officers after two U.S. citizens protesting immigration enforcement activities in the city were shot and killed.
It is the latest apparent effort by the Trump administration to ratchet down tensions after the shootings triggered protests and widespread criticism.
The shooting deaths sparked calls for accountability
In the immediate hours after ICU nurse Alex Pretti’s death, Noem went on the offensive, saying several times that Pretti “came with a weapon and dozens of rounds of ammunition and attacked” officers, who took action to “defend their lives.” Other administration officials painted a similar picture.
Multiple videos that emerged of the shooting contradicted that claim, showing Pretti had only his mobile phone in his hand as officers tackled him to the ground, with one removing a handgun from the back of his pants as another officer began firing shots into his back.
Homeland Security has said that at least four Customs and Border Protection officers on the scene when Pretti was shot were wearing body cameras. The body camera footage from Pretti’s shooting has not been made public.
The department has not responded to repeated questions about whether any of the ICE officers on the scene of the killing of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good earlier in January were wearing the cameras.
The shootings, and the narrative coming from some in the administration, sparked demands for accountability, including among some Republicans.
President Donald Trump sent his border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to take control of operations there, displacing Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who has become a lightning rod for criticism in the various operations he’s joined in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.
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The Justice Department has also opened a federal civil rights investigation into Pretti’s shooting, which it has not done in the case of Good.
Critics have increasingly called for Homeland Security to require its immigration enforcement officers to wear body cameras.
In response to Noem’s announcement, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on X that body cameras should have been worn “long before (officers) killed two Americans.”
Lawmakers consider restraints in DHS funding bill
Noem’s announcement comes as the administration and Democrats are locked in a congressional battle over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Democrats have been demanding changes to rein in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. An additional $20 million for body cameras was included in the bipartisan federal funding package that was approved by the Senate late last week ahead of a deadline to prevent a government shutdown.
But the House has yet to approve the package, launching a partial government shutdown for certain agencies, including Homeland Security, last Saturday. But because many Homeland Security operations are deemed essential, they continue despite the federal funding lapse.
Body cameras have become a flashpoint in previous immigration enforcement operations under the Trump administration’s mass deportations agenda, including during a major operation in Chicago last fall. A U.S. district judge ordered uniformed agents there to wear cameras, if available, and turn them on when engaged in arrests, frisks and building searches or when being deployed to protests.
A 2022 executive order on police reform by President Joe Biden directed federal law enforcement officers to wear body cameras. Trump had rescinded that directive after starting his second term.
Trump backs body-worn cameras
Noem’s move comes after Trump over the weekend endorsed the idea of body cameras for immigration officers.
After Noem’s announcement Monday, Trump said the decision was up to the secretary but said that he thought it was generally good for law enforcement to wear cameras.
“They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can’t lie about what’s happening,” he said in the Oval Office Monday, adding, “If she wants to do the camera thing, that’s OK with me.”
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group, said Noem didn’t need to wait for more money to enforce the new policy nationwide, pointing to the massive immigration enforcement funding measure that Congress passed last summer that gave ICE nearly $30 billion for “enforcement and removal operations” including spending on information technology.
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Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-TX) expressed confidence Monday that the House of Representatives would pass the Republican spending bill to end the partial government shutdown, despite Democrats’ lack of support for Department of Homeland Security funding.
Democrats had been holding out on the $1.2 trillion funding package over $10 billion provisions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by demanding certain reforms to ICE’s aggressive deportation tactics. A last-minute deal with the White House included a two-week stopgap measure to allow lawmakers to continue negotiating DHS funding.
Gimenez told Maria Bartiromo that Republicans have been “warning the Trump administration for a while” about the deportation issues during an appearance on Fox Business.
“I think there will be some kind of negotiations with the president on what immigration enforcement is going to look like in the future,” Gimenez said. “Unfortunately, we’ve been warning the administration about the enforcement that has been going on. We thought that there should have been course correction a long time ago — now I guess going to be forced on us by the Democrats. Unfortunately, we could have done it ourselves — should done it ourselves — but that didn’t happen.”
Bartiromo asked what Gimenez meant by “course correction.”
“We should have been focusing on criminals and gang members and people with active deportation orders,” Gimenez said. “I don’t think we should have been focusing on people that have been here for a long time — grandmothers, etc. — who happened to be in a neighborhood during an enforcement action. I think a mistake coming back to haunt us right now.”
Gimenez added that the administration should have focused on criminals “from the get-go.”
“And, unfortunately, we want beyond that, okay? And we shouldn’t. Because, not only is it, I think is wrong, but it’s also going to harm our economy. Many of these people are doing jobs in our economy, right now, and so, we need to find a path forward. “I don’t think that what we were doing was the right way. We should have just focused on that group that the president said he was going to boot out of the country, which he was right to do,” he argued.
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Co-hosts of the “I’ve Had It” podcast on Saturday agreed in their belief that the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged.
Thomas Crooks opened fire at a Trump rally last year, firing eight shots, killing a man, critically wounding two others and grazing the president’s ear, according to authorities. Crooks, 20, killed a 50-year-old father of two named Corey Comperatore and sent David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, to the hospital with gunshot wounds. It was one of the most dramatic moments of the 2024 Trump campaign, with Trump ducking for cover with blood visible on the side of his face, as he got back up and yelled “Fight! Fight! Fight!,” with a defiant fist in the air.
Jennifer Welch, who famously laughed as she saw a left-wing activist take joy in TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk’s death, spoke about the Butler, PA assassination attempt with co-host Angie “Pumps” Sullivan. Welch argued that the goodwill Trump earned from that moment has not only worn itself out, but that the whole affair was likely staged.
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“Obviously, a lot of people are late to the party on this. A lot of people during the last presidential campaign got intoxicated by Trump’s campaign. They got intoxicated by the ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ photo, which I’m now going to go on the permanent record. I think he totally staged the assassination,” Welch said.
“I do too,” Pumps replied.
“I’ve watched it. I think he staged it. They lowered the flag. They let the press go in. I think he staged the whole thing,” Welch continued. “That’s just my opinion. Maybe I’m going BlueAnon. I don’t care. F— it. We’re in the middle of Trump’s 2.0.”
BlueAnon is a catchphrase that parodies the QAnon genre of conspiracy theories, and is used to describe liberals embracing similarly outlandish conspiracy theories about Republicans.
She went on to criticize podcast host and comedian Andrew Schulz as one of the many male-oriented podcasters who have only recently begun to criticize Trump.
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“But a lot of people like Andrew Schulz fell for all that crap, and Donald Trump is a lot of these guys’ idealized form of masculinity, and they submit to him, they’re submissive to this man. They don’t stand on anything on their own,” Welch said.
The host of the “I’ve Had It” podcast proceeded to play multiple clips of Schulz complaining that only a small number of the deportations were violent/sexual offenders, and that the Trump administration had failed to release the Epstein list.
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“If you bring up another f—— pedophile about deporting, and you’re not releasing the Epstein list, just shut the f— up all of you,” he said. “I don’t want to hear anything else about ‘Oh we gotta deport the pedophiles!’ They’re right here! There are a list of them and you’re not exposing it.”
A White House spokesperson said the Welch and Pumps are suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“’I’ve had it’ [with] hearing sick conspiracies from no-name liberal podcast hosts who clearly suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the spokesperson said.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Schulz and did not receive an immediate reply.
Welch has become a significant voice in Democratic circles. She has been outspoken about her belief that Democrats need to be more aggressive in their fight against Trump and his supporters. She has also hosted numerous top Democrats on her podcast, like former President Barack Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, followed by the victim-blaming slanders from Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, may finally have exhausted the public’s patience with the Trump administration.
We can only hope.
It bears remembering that, aside from the agents themselves, the crimes of ICE are the responsibility of amoral politicians who have unmoored themselves from the Constitution and from any accountability to the people in order to sup at Trump’s table.
Trump has “made America un-American,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote.
He couldn’t have done it alone. No despot does. This is about you, Pam Bondi. You, Marco Rubio.
Two top sellouts
These Floridians are two top sellouts in Washington. Many others in the Cabinet, White House and Congress have joined the dark side, where conscience doesn’t follow.
The president himself seems to be aware, at long last, that it has gone too far. Getting Gregory Bovino out of Minneapolis was a start. Firing Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller should be next, although that’s probably too much good sense to expect.
But it’s encouraging to see congressional Democrats talking about impeaching the puppy-killing Homeland Security secretary. Bondi belongs on their list, too.
No Mafia don phrased the business more succinctly than Bondi did when she told Minnesota that its troubles could just go away if the state turned over its sensitive personal information on voters. Trump’s failure to contradict Bondi speaks volumes.
The siege of Minneapolis has little to do with illegal immigration, a much bigger presence in the Republican states of Texas and Florida. It’s about terrorizing a Democratic city and probing to see what more the Trump regime might get away with if it decided, for example, to prevent an election.
A line must be drawn. Senate Democrats should continue to block Homeland Security funding until the goons are gone from Minnesota and Noem is gone from Washington.
Remember history
As for Trump’s enablers, they should worry how history will treat them.
Power and glory are fleeting. Reputation is eternal. Trump’s regime will end Jan. 20, 2029. Those who helped him make America un-American must answer for themselves.
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Trump’s command of Congress owes to the incapability of many politicians to see beyond the next election.
Republicans know it: To disobey Trump once is to provoke him into calling on party voters to purge them. That’s why he’s targeting Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Susan Collins of Maine. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is retiring in the face of Trump’s wrath, which may well result in poetic justice — a Democrat succeeding him.
Cassidy, Collins and Tillis helped put lethal vaccine denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation’s health. They confirmed Bondi as Trump’s consiglieri at Justice. Cassidy and Tillis were critical to making the woefully unfit Pete Hegseth secretary of Defense. They all need to go.
Trump’s most prominent political victim is former Rep. Liz Cheney, a conservative Republican from Wyoming, who lost her seat in Congress for co-chairing the House Select Committee investigation of Trump’s conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election.
But when the future histories of the Trump years are written, it’s Cheney whom they will honor, not Trump or his enablers.
Rubio a sad example
Rubio is an especially sad example. His Senate colleagues confirmed him unanimously because of his expertise in Latin America and what seemed to be a fervent commitment to democracy everywhere.
So much for that. The Ukraine chapter in a future American history could be illustrated with the photos of Rubio cringing on the couch as Trump bullied and berated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
After he devoted his political career to extolling democracy for Cubans and Venezuelans, Rubio is AWOL as Trump and Noem send them back to the dictatorships they fled. His own parents, who escaped pre-Castro tyranny in Cuba, wouldn’t pass Trump’s immigration muster.
Come home, Marco, and salvage your reputation. A self-respecting secretary of State would resign rather than help Trump cozy up to the Venezuelan regime in return for its oil.
Rubio has been carrying out dictatorial measures at home. Documents unsealed in a federal court showed that he personally approved the deportation of foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or wrote in opposition to Israeli policy. The judge, a Ronald Reagan appointee, blocked their removal.
“These cabinet secretaries,” wrote District Judge William Young, citing Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Noem, “have failed in their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.”
That goes for a majority of Congress, too.
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The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board consists of Opinion Editor Steve Bousquet, Deputy Opinion Editor Dan Sweeney, editorial writers Pat Beall and Martin Dyckman, and Executive Editor Gretchen Day-Bryant. To contact us, email at letters@sun-sentinel.com.
