Newly released footage offers insight into how the Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE managed an immigration sting in Nashville in early May, although redactions and an interruption to the body camera footage raise concerns about transparency surrounding the operation.
Dashboard and body-worn camera footage reviewed by the Banner as part of a public records request provides an additional perspective and an extended version of an incident reported this summer, in which the Tennessee Highway Patrol took over a routine traffic stop by Metro Nashville Police. As a result, a man was detained by ICE. It also captures a conversation about the sting between a Seattle-based ICE agent and a state trooper, whose identity the state refuses to disclose.
THP made available this week an incident report, along with dashcam and bodycam footage of the incident, which was originally requested in May. The THP footage was released three months after and had heavier redactions than the comparable MNPD video, with the faces and names of all law enforcement personnel being blurred in the THP video…