Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were involved in the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González in Chicago last week were not wearing body cameras at the time, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official.
In the wake of the shooting, immigration advocates, family members and local elected officials had called for ICE to release body camera footage, as well as any photos.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, called for ICE to turn over any pictures or video from the fatal shooting and at a press event Monday reacted to what he said was a lack of information about the incident, saying, “This is the most unusual situation I’ve seen in my entire lifetime, where we have no transparency and the federal government is not policing itself.”…