A government that demands instant obedience while concealing its identity cannot expect trust – or escape responsibility for the consequences.
There are videos that do more than document a story. They alter the way we understand it.
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Ronaldo Salgado spent 7 July searching for his father.
At the scene of a shooting in Houston’s East End, he found his father’s work van behind police tape.
Later, he saw a video online: a man had been shot in the street. Ronaldo could not identify him by sight.
He recognized Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by his voice, crying for help.
The video of Ronaldo recounting that realization – and collapsing into grief – has not left me. That sound is all too familiar.
It is evidence of what government power has produced.
Warnings and Reforms Ignored
We were warned.
Shortly after federal immigration officers killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, senator Jon Ossoff asked why “roving gangs of masked men” were “demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death”.
A federal court ordered immigration agents in Chicago to wear body cameras, while state and local lawmakers pursued measures requiring agents to unmask and identify themselves.
Yet Trump later signed a $70bn immigration-enforcement bill funding ICE and border patrol through 2029 without requiring agents to unmask or wear body cameras.
Less than a month later, after Salgado Araujo’s killing, representative Sylvia Garcia says ICE’s acting director promised to equip all field officers with body cameras by the end of July.
