The federal government claims that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
People detained at ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago sued the government on October 30; according to their lawyers and the government, nearly two weeks of footage that could show how they were treated was lost in a “system crash” that happened on October 31.
Isnt the legal standard in “destruction of evidence” cases to assume the plantiffs claims are 100% true?
Seems like a very stupid plan from ICE.
They dont need to win the case on merit; theyll just get a corrupt judge to overturn any rulings on appeals.
That just leaves damning information becoming public knowledge via discovery, which they’ve prevented by destroying the evidence.