Judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal migration officers successful the Chicago country volition beryllium required to deterioration assemblage cameras, a justice said Thursday aft seeing teardrop state and different assertive steps utilized against protesters.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said she was a “little startled” aft seeing TV images of clashes betwixt agents and the nationalist during President Donald Trump's administration's migration crackdown.

“I unrecorded successful Chicago if folks haven’t noticed,” she said. “And I’m not blind, right?”

Ellis past week said agents successful the country indispensable deterioration badges, and she banned them from utilizing definite riot power techniques against peaceful protesters and journalists.

“I’m getting images and seeing images connected the news, successful the paper, speechmaking reports wherever I’m having concerns astir my bid being followed,” the justice said.

Sean Skedzielewski, an lawyer representing the government, laid blasted with “one-sided and selectively edited media reports.”