Steven Davis’ first time volunteering to observe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s local operations ended with him recording a military-clad agent wearing a black face mask breaking an older Latino man’s truck window during an arrest. The man had just left a neighborhood grocery store on Tucson’s south side.
A grassroots network released the video of ICE agents pulling the man from his vehicle on Sunday, Jan. 18. Davis is a new member of the Tucson Rapid Response Network. He recorded the arrest, and said he began filming hoping his presence might temper how agents treated the driver.
“When you know that you’re being observed then I think people generally tend to be on their best behavior,” he said. The network was created to have people observe ICE arrests for accountability and documentation purposes…