00:03¡Holamente!
00:04¡Holamente!
00:04En estos videos,
00:07como varios de otros que viven de todos los países,
00:10seguimos viendo los agentes de inmigración agentes
00:13agresivamente usados a varios tipos de armas
00:15contra los observadores y protestantes.
00:17¡Holamente!
00:18¡Holamente!
00:19De todo tipo de gas y peper spray,
00:21a peperballos y munición lanzas.
00:25Estas armas son conocidos a ser menos letal.
00:27Unlike guns,
00:29they're designed to be less likely to cause death
00:31or serious injury.
00:32And since last summer,
00:34these weapons have been heavily used by agents
00:36sent into U.S. cities.
00:38Less lethals?
00:39Uh, we're gonna look at shipping tractor-trailer
00:42loads of that shit in here.
00:43So we looked into how they're being used.
00:45We analyzed dozens of videos
00:47where immigration agents deployed these less lethal weapons
00:50and found that agents were regularly using them
00:52in ways that violate federal and local law enforcement policies.
00:58Multiple videos show agents pepper spraying passive observers
01:01and bystanders from very close range.
01:04In this video from Minnesota,
01:07you see several officers handcuffing a man on the ground.
01:10He doesn't appear to be actively resisting.
01:12But this Border Patrol officer,
01:14not involved in the detention,
01:16bends down and sprays the man in the face from inches away.
01:19To understand if agents violated federal or local law enforcement policies,
01:23we review DHS, CBP, DOJ, and police department guidelines on use of force.
01:30CBP's policies offer the most detailed federal rules.
01:34For pepper spray, it says it can be used on individuals
01:37who show, at minimum, active resistance.
01:40Some local police departments have even stricter guidelines,
01:43saying the spray should be used from at least three feet away.
01:46In other videos, the agents firing chemical munitions using these launchers
01:51also appear to violate guidelines.
01:54CBP's rules say agents aren't allowed
01:56to intentionally target the head, neck, groin, spine, or female breast.
02:01In this video from California,
02:03watch as this agent enters the frame.
02:05He quickly points his launcher at this minister from only a few feet away
02:09and fires directly at his head.
02:13This video from Minnesota appears to show several of these violations.
02:17As one federal agent arrests this man on the ground,
02:20another agent begins throwing multiple tear gas cans at the observers.
02:23The other agent, still in the middle of detaining the man,
02:26has pepper spray in one hand and a munitions launcher in the other.
02:29He fires directly at an observer only a few feet away,
02:33though none of the observers appear to show signs of active or assaultive resistance.
02:37At the same time, the other officer throws this stun munition,
02:41which narrowly misses a man's head.
02:44Stun munitions can be used on subjects who show
02:47at a minimum assaultive resistance, according to CBP rules,
02:51which means a level of violence that could cause serious injury.
02:54Moments later, one of the officers pepper sprays an observer kneeling on the ground
02:59and then points his munition launcher at others nearby.
03:05We took a closer look at this incident,
03:07a protest outside of an ICE detention facility in Illinois last September.
03:12Freelance journalist Lee Kunkel was recording these immigration agents
03:15walking towards the crowd armed with their pepper ball guns.
03:19What was the environment like when you got to the protest?
03:22What was the atmosphere there?
03:24Nobody was throwing anything.
03:26Nobody was approaching the agents.
03:29It was a slightly more combative atmosphere,
03:31but certainly not violent on the protesters' side.
03:36You can see Lee at the protest here,
03:39behind the white van with other photographers,
03:41when agents began firing pepper balls in their direction.
03:45Amid the spray of pepper balls, Lee is hit in the back of her head.
03:50You can make out the mark where the pepper ball hit Lee.
03:53She holds her head in pain and ducks behind the van for cover.
03:56What Lee didn't know is that some of the shots were coming from this agent to her right.
04:01He was standing about 20 feet away and behind this chain link fence.
04:04Here he is with his pepper ball gun aimed at her and resting on the fence for stability.
04:09The agent fires at Lee again.
04:11This time, he hits her directly in the face.
04:13This is the smoke cloud from the pepper ball's impact.
04:19As Lee runs away, the agent keeps firing at least two more rounds.
04:23They barely miss her.
04:25The pepper balls left Lee covered in blood coming from her nose.
04:28Lee was shot in the head and face with a pepper ball gun.
04:31Like its policy for munition launchers,
04:34CBP's rules for the weapon say authorized officers slash agents
04:37shall not intentionally target the head, neck, spine, or groin of the intended subject
04:42unless the use of deadly force is reasonable.
04:45I would love for somebody to explain what I was doing in that moment.
04:52That was a threat to anybody.
04:54I mean, I was crouched on the ground behind a van, completely unarmed.
05:00And as thousands of new ICE recruits go through a shorter training program,
05:04they'll be sent into cities with less training than officers and other federal agencies.
05:09They ceased all of the legal instructions regarding use of force.
05:14This ICE whistleblower told Congress that classes on use of force were recently removed from ICE's new curriculum.
05:20What was taken out of the training were classes on use of force,
05:24specifically classes taught by the legal department, as well as classes taught by other units.
05:28In response to specific videos, DHS told us agents were responding to dangerous situations not always captured in the short
05:36clips
05:36and appropriately used less lethal weapons to protect themselves and control crowds.
05:41DHS told CNN in a statement,
05:57It also said DHS is taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law
06:03and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters.
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