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.
Deliberate destruction of evidence is a crime. Seems like a lot of these people need to go under oath.
Any of the people making that claim going to testify to that under oath?
“my bodycam malfunctioned”
They actually think we’re stupid
Statue of Liberty: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
iCE: OK