From WIRED
How to Film ICE
By Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner, Andy Greenberg
In January 2026, two Americans were killed in the act of watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Renee Nicole Good was acting as a legal observer while her wife recorded the federal immigration agents they encountered. Alex Pretti was holding a phone in his hand, filming the agents who would soon take his life. Yet as dangerous as the mere act of observation became for these victims of ICE and Border Patrol’s violence, video is also what documented their murders and is now holding federal agents accountable.
That’s the paradox United States residents face as they decide how to resist—and record—ICE’s incursion into American cities...
“While it is important to share content on social media, these platforms modify content by reducing resolution and quality and stripping informative metadata,” says Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California and digital forensics expert. “As such, I advocate always saving the original recordings that can be shared with reporters and forensic analysts like me...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
