ICE Officers at Maine Shooting Scene Were Wearing Body Cameras. They Were Not Turned On. & ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest 16&21JUL26

 

An FBI official places an evidence card in Biddeford, Maine, where a 25-year-old man was shot and killed by an ICE officer on July 13, 2026. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

IT seems most ice, hsi and cbp gestapo have a criminal, gang member mentality. Most of hitler's regular gestapo thugs were not held accountable for their war crimes and crimes against humanity and it appears Homeland Security Sec fascist fotze trunt markiewayne mullin and neo-nazi Border Czar fascist fotze trunt tommi homan are trying to arrange that outcome for themselves and their terrorist, murdering thugs. Body cameras not turned on, no proof of the crime committed. Regarding the dress code for the ice gestapo, that's just putting lipstick on a pig cause it is still a pig. These from The Intercept.....

ICE Officers at Maine Shooting Scene Were Wearing Body Cameras. They Were Not Turned On.

ICE officers were wearing body cameras they can’t turn on, four sources said. The Trump administration said there was no footage.

Karl Loftus

July 16 2026, 2:05 p.m. ET

Federal officers at the scene of a killing by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine were wearing body cameras, according to four ICE officials who reviewed images from the scene — but the cameras are on multi-function devices that ICE officers use as radio mics.

After an ICE officer shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian national this week in Biddeford, Maine, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin reportedly told Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, that officers involved in the shooting were not wearing body cameras.

Yet the ICE officials who spoke with The Intercept, all of whom requested anonymity to protect their livelihoods, identified cameras among the equipment worn by two ICE officers nearby in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

The body-worn devices were not designed solely to capture evidential video, and are used primarily as remote microphones for ICE officers’ radio communications. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.)

“We are currently only using them as mics because of the AXON contract.”

ICE officials who spoke to The Intercept identified the accessories worn by ICE officers on the scene of the Maine shooting as Motorola SVX Video Remote Speaker Microphones, a wireless radio mic with one other important feature: a camera. (Motorola did not respond to a request to comment.)

Although the Motorola SVX worn by ICE officers are designed to work as body cameras, the ICE official said the function isn’t used.

“They have multiple functionalities,” one ICE official who identified the Motorola SVX at the scene in Maine told The Intercept. “However, we are currently only using them as mics because of the AXON contract.”

The Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, purchases body-worn cameras through a contract with Axon, a law enforcement tech firm. (Axon did not respond to a request for comment.)

Another ICE official showed The Intercept where, on their own Motorola SVX, a cover can be attached to the top of the device where the camera lens is, comparing it to the tech worn by officers at the Maine shooting scene.

“This is where the cover clips over the camera lens,” the second ICE officer said. “Since the cameras don’t work they just leave the cover on.”

The SVX mics worn by ICE are designed to record internally, capable of storing over 100 hours of standard-definition video, according to Motorola promotional materials and a technical support line. The video-recording function on the SVX mic, however, requires a subscription.

No Bodycam Footage

Motorola is a giant in the world of government law enforcement and security work.

According to a document published on the Department of Homeland Security’s website, ICE alone expects to spend more than $100 million on a six-year contract for Motorola’s line of APX Next All-Band Smart Radios and accessories, which would include the SVX mic.

The deadly ICE shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine stoked national outrage, coming on the heels of another fatal ICE shooting of Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.

Neither man, according to news reports, had been the intended targets of the ICE arrest teams. And neither man’s death was captured by federal officers’ body-worn cameras, according to official reports.

Shortly after the Maine shooting, ICE ordered its officers in the field to halt nearly all traffic stops. After reports of the order emerged and Trump complained, border czar Tom Homan pivoted to say the ICE vehicle stops would continue.

Widely known today for its body cams, Axon used to be called Taser, named for the stun gun that built its reputation and which it still carries. The company does brisk business with ICE.

Last month, presidential financial disclosures raised eyebrows over an ICE public request for a $220 million stun gun contract that appeared tailor-made for Axon’s Tasers. Only two weeks before the request for information went out, according to the disclosures, President Donald Trump purchased as much as $5 million in shares from Axon.

During Trump’s winter immigration crackdown in Minnesota, ICE announced that it would be purchasing and distributing body cameras to every arrest team in the agency.

After the deaths of Durán Guerrero and Salgado Araujo over past week, however, the Trump administration said the distribution was incomplete.

“The body cameras have been ordered,” Homan, Trump’s border czar, said in a press conference. “There’s a deployment schedule on the books.”

The Homeland Security Department said that half of ICE field offices already had body-worn cameras and the rest were expected to get them in the next two months.

The new body cameras were funded through a $20 million congressional appropriation to expand ICE’s camera program, which includes contracts with Axon for the devices.

ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest

Updates to ICE’s code of conduct ban deportation officers from wearing jeans, hoodies, and graphic tees, according to a leaked document.

Karl Loftus

July 21 2026, 10:05 a.m. ET

Following a pair of deadly shootings by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the division of the agency responsible for street arrests and deportations issued a new policy mandating a dress code for field operations.

The nationwide policy, shared with The Intercept by a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower and confirmed by multiple ICE officers, details a new set of appearance standards aimed at making it easier for the public and fellow law enforcement officials to recognize ICE officers in the field.

“Law enforcement officers performing field operations shall wear readily identifiable ICE attire, including a ballistic vest during high-visibility operations,” says a guidance memo signed by Acting ICE Director David Venturella. “Appropriate field attire includes khaki or coyote brown tactical type pants, paired with an ICE polo, or dark blue or black polo.”

The memo adds, “Clothing such as jeans, sweatshirts, hoodies, non-collared shirts, or apparel displaying graphics or screen prints is not authorized during field operations.”

The new directives for ICE’s Employee Code of Conduct came in the wake of a botched arrest last week in Las Vegas by two ICE officers wearing hooded sweatshirts, with one attempting to pull a hood down over his face as onlookers recorded video. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.)

The officer attempting to make the arrest “looked like a kidnapper,” said one ICE official who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity to protect their livelihood.

“Ending the era of ICE agents making arrests in hoodies and unbranded street clothes is a long-overdue admission that unidentifiable immigration enforcement is dangerous, instills fear, and erodes public trust,” Nick Wilson, the senior director of public safety policy at Center for American Progress, told The Intercept. “Real public safety requires holding federal agents to the exact same standards of visibility, training, state and local oversight, and independent investigations of civil rights violations as local law enforcement.”

“Ending the era of ICE agents making arrests in hoodies and unbranded street clothes is a long-overdue admission that unidentifiable immigration enforcement is dangerous.”

Along with the use of masks, ICE officers’ failure to clearly identify themselves amid arrests and other enforcement actions have drawn criticisms from the public and raised the ire of elected officials. Attorneys general have pleaded with Congress to pass legislation requiring that ICE officers wear identifying insignia, and members of Congress have themselves urged ICE to require officers better identify themselves to the public.

Botched Las Vegas Arrest

The new dress code, two ICE officials told The Intercept, came in direct response to the recent fatal ICE shootings in Texas and Maine and the botched arrest attempt by two plainclothes ICE officers on July 13 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.

“It’s because of the incident that happened in Las Vegas,” said the ICE official.

Video of the Las Vegas airport incident, recorded by a bystander, shows two people in hooded sweatshirts tackling a man in the middle of a busy terminal. After passersby draw near, the officers abandoned the arrest but left the man handcuffed on one hand. The man tackled in the video, later identified as Phu Nguyen, a 57-year-old Australian national who allegedly overstayed his visa, was arrested by ICE the following day at Los Angeles International Airport.

“It blew all our minds,” the ICE official said. “It didn’t look professional. They didn’t present a badge when they initiated.”

The new ICE dress code policy mandates that all arresting officers must clearly display an ICE badge while conducting arrests.

“During low-visibility operations, the ICE badge must remain visible at the time of arrest.” the policy says.

Another ICE official, who also cited the Las Vegas airport incident, said a wave of new ICE recruits and relaxed training standards had contributed to the lack of professionalism.

“What an embarrassment the Vegas video was,” said the second ICE official, who also requested anonymity. “Those two fucking clowns should’ve been immediately fired. Half these fucking new DOs” — deportation officers — “don’t even know the basics of immigration law or how to process an alien. They hired a bunch of fucking clowns and they look sloppy as shit.”

In a statement to the press, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson blamed bystanders for the botched arrest in Vegas.

“As officers attempted to arrest Nguyen, a crowd of anti-ICE agitators surrounded officers,” the statement said. “To de-escalate the situation and for officer safety, officers did not proceed with the arrest.”

According to ICE officials who spoke to The Intercept, the new dress code could be the first step toward a major shift in ICE’s long-standing status as a plainclothes agency.

“I would say the writing’s on the wall,” said one ICE official. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we go to a uniformed agency.”

A MIGHTY GIRL'S POST ON THE MURDER OF JOAN SEBASTIAN GUERRERO 13JUL26

 

Joan Sebastian Guerrero with his daughter. He was murdered by ice in Biddeford, Maine just steps from his home.....

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NEO-NAZI FASCIST ICE GESTAPO THUGS MURDER ANOTHER INNOCENT IN AMERICA 13JUL26

ICE AGENT DAVID BROUILLETTE, WITH SEN SUSAN COLLINS R-ME & SEC OF HOMELAND SECURITY MARKWAYNE MULLIN MURDERED JOAN SEBASTIAN GUERRERO IN BIDDEFORD, MAINE ON 13JUL26

VIDEOS AND PICTURES OF ILLEGAL & IMMORAL ACTIONS BY HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY FASCIST FOTZE TRUNT markiewayne mullin ICE, HSI & CBP GESTAPO IN 2026

Salmo 37:1-4

Nueva Versión Internacional

Salmo 37

De David.

1 No te inquietes por los malvados,

ni envidies a los que hacen el mal;

2 porque como la hierba se marchitarán pronto,

como las plantas verdes morirán pronto.

3 Confía en el Señor y haz el bien;

habita en la tierra y disfruta de pastos seguros.

4 Deléitate en el Señor,

y él te concederá los deseos de tu corazón.

Psalm 37:1-4

New International Version

Psalm 37

Of David.

1 Do not fret because of those who are evil
    or be envious of those who do wrong;
2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
    like green plants they will soon die away.

3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
    dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4 Take delight in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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The three-year-old girl, still wearing her Bluey pajamas, stood crying in the street, next to her mother, who had fallen to her knees screaming at the sight of her husband's body. He had been shot in his car by ICE agents on his way to work early Monday morning. Nearby a woman yelled, "You took her dad, you took her dad!”

Joan Sebastian Guerrero was still able to speak when they dragged him out, facedown on the pavement, and put the bleeding man in handcuffs. Daniel Boucher, 71, heard the shots from his apartment and went down to the street. "His face was bloody. His head was bloody," Boucher said, choking up. "I clearly heard the victim say, 'I tried to stop.' Clearly heard him say that."

Guerrero's wife knelt in the road beside him. Mary Hayes, watching from a window nearby, could not stop describing the sound the woman made. "I heard agony," she said. "I heard a howl that came from your soul, that your whole life had just changed and it was never going to be the same."

After he died, handcuffed in the street, his body would lie there for five hours.

Guerrero, a 26-year-old delivery driver from Colombia, was the sole provider for his wife and daughter. He held a Social Security number and legal authorization to work in the United States, according to the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition. He had been appearing at his immigration court dates.

Down the block from where he died is the laundromat he came to often, where the owner, Sadie Dilboy, knew him as the young man who always tidied up after himself and who brought his daughter along and handed her quarters for the candy machine. "He was such a good person," she said.

Joan Sebastian Guerrero was not even the man ICE was looking for.

The neighbors saw exactly how wrong everything went. Nelson Elias was woken by screams around seven o'clock. "I heard [the agents] telling him to park the car," Elias said. "It was really loud. Then all of a sudden they shot like 6 times, and it was just something hard to hear."

Mia Covino heard four or five shots and dropped to the floor of her home, then went to the window. Outside, the white car was spinning slowly in the intersection, and one of the agents -- believed to the one who had just shot Guerrero -- was hanging onto a door handle, yelling. The other agent was telling him to stop. To relax. To calm down.

Cory Poulin, who owns a laundromat across the street, believes the car was drifting because the man behind the wheel had already been shot. Em Akerley heard the first round from her kitchen, then five or six more, and reached her window in time to watch two agents chasing a car that "wasn't out of control that I saw."

"I don't know what he did," Akerley said, "but he didn't deserve to be executed in the street."

For nearly twelve hours after Guerrero was killed, the Department of Homeland Security said nothing publicly at all. It was talking to Congress, though. Within hours, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Senator Angus King that the man had used his vehicle as a weapon against the agents -- the same claim the department made in Houston, and in Minneapolis before that.

Mullin also told King the man was the target of the warrant. Hours later, he called the senator back to say that was wrong. He confirmed that the agents had been looking for someone else.

He never retracted the claim about the vehicle. But when ICE issued its public statement that evening, it was gone. DHS' statement did not use the language it has used time and time again when their agents have shot people in their cars -- it did not claim that Guerrero had weaponized his vehicle toward law enforcement.

It said only that an officer had discharged his weapon "fearing for public safety" as the vehicle "attempted to flee the scene."

The department's own use-of-force policy permits deadly force only against a person posing an imminent threat of death or serious injury, and warns explicitly against using it to stop someone who is fleeing. Fleeing is what DHS says Guerrero did.

Federal law enforcement officials, current and former, told CNN they were stunned. "Every law enforcement officer in America is scratching their head trying to figure out what that means," one said. Another was blunter: "When you want to arrest someone, this is a good example of how to do everything wrong."

In Houston, six days earlier, they told the same story.

ICE officers trailed a white work van carrying a construction crew and shot the driver through an open window. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52, a father of three, a business owner who had lived in the U.S. for more than three decades without a criminal record. He was not the target either. Agents believed a passenger resembled a man they wanted.

DHS said Salgado Araujo weaponized his van and tried to run over an officer. The men sitting beside him say an officer walked up to the open passenger window, said "Stop," and fired -- so close to his brother Victor's face that Victor thought he himself had been hit.

Twice in six days, federal agents executing an arrest warrant stopped the wrong vehicle and killed the driver.

In February, after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS announced that its officers would begin wearing body cameras. Congress appropriated twenty million dollars to buy them. Five months later, the agents in Houston had no body cameras and no dash cameras, and the agents in Biddeford had none either.

At the end of June, immigration agents arrested more than ten thousand people in five days -- better than two thousand a day, roughly double the pace of earlier this year and more than six times the rate before the Trump administration took office. The government denies in court that any quota exists. Its own officers say otherwise.

"All that matters is numbers, pure numbers," one ICE insider told the New York Post. "Quantity over quality."

King put the blame where he believed it belonged. "They've been told they have to arrest 2,000 people a day by the White House. That's a terrible way, an instruction, to give law enforcement. What happened today in Maine is a result of that."

Biddeford already knew what the quota looked like. In January, federal agents surged into Maine for an operation the Department of Homeland Security called "Catch of the Day," a joke about the state's fishing industry, and detained roughly two hundred people. Eleven of them had criminal convictions.

In recent weeks, neighbors said, ICE had been circling the streets around Pool and Hill in unmarked cars, past the bus stops and the schools. Barbara Malloch, who lives a block from where Guerrero was shot, was woken by the gunfire. "We don't want ICE here," she said. "They're killing people. They're not following the law."

We have seen this before. When an ICE agent killed Renee Good in January, the administration called it an act of domestic terrorism and said she had weaponized her car; video showed her turning away from the agent as he fired. When agents killed Alex Pretti days later, officials said he had come at them with a gun; he was holding a phone.

When the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into Good's killing, the Justice Department ordered it closed -- and pushed instead to investigate Good's widow. More than twenty federal prosecutors resigned rather than carry it out, including the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota and six senior leaders of the Civil Rights Division unit that investigates police killings.

Three agencies are already investigating Joan Sebastian Guerrero's death: the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, the FBI, and the Maine attorney general. The officer who killed him has been placed on leave.

As the federal government said nothing, the people of Biddeford took to the streets. By midday, hundreds were marching down Main Street, singing and banging drums, past the Pepperell Mill where generations of immigrants once worked. They massed outside Senator Susan Collins' office until the staff locked the doors.

They came with signs. "ICE is the new Gestapo," one read. "This is the government the founders warned us about," said another. A third: "You murdered a father."

In January, Guerrero posted this photograph of himself and his daughter to his Facebook page. Beneath it, he shared Psalm 37:1-4.

"No te impacientes a causa de los malignos, Ni tengas envidia de los que hacen iniquidad. Porque como hierba serán pronto cortados, Y como la hierba verde se secarán. Confía en Jehová, y haz el bien; Y habitarás en la tierra, y te apacentarás de la verdad. Deléitate asimismo en Jehová, Y él te concederá las peticiones de tu corazón."

"Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of those who do injustice. For like grass they will soon be cut down, and like the green grass they will wither. Trust in the Lord, and do good; and you will dwell in the land, and feed on truth. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will grant you the petitions of your heart."

His daughter is three years old. She will grow up without him.

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Twice in six days, ICE stopped the wrong car, killed the driver, and made excuses. Neither shooting was filmed, and neither has been explained. That is a system, not an accident. Here's how to take action"

--> Call your Senators and Representatives at (202) 224-3121. Demand full, independent, and public investigations into the killings of Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo -- and demand that Congress hold hearings, because the last time an ICE agent killed someone, the Justice Department shut the investigation down and went after the victim's widow instead.

Also demand that every immigration agent be equipped with a body camera. DHS promised them five months ago, after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minneapolis. Congress appropriated $20 million to pay for Not one of the agents in Houston or Biddeford was wearing one.

--> To support the coalition demanding an independent investigation of Guerrero's killing and the preservation of all evidence, visit the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition at https://maineimmigrantrights.org

--> No fund has been established yet for Guerrero's wife and daughter. When one is, it will likely come through the coalition -- watch their page and give directly to the family if you can.