Campaign Zero Executive Director DeRay Mckesson was quoted in The New York Times today regarding recent fatal shootings by ICE agents and what they reveal about systemic accountability failures in law enforcement.

In “It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics,” Mckesson discussed how contradictions between official government accounts and bystander video footage of the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are helping more Americans realize the longstanding concerns about police violence:

“ICE has helped people understand that the system is broken, that it’s not just one or two bad officers,” Mr. Mckesson said.

He pointed to Trump administration accounts of the shootings that were contradicted by bystander videos. “People are for the first time are like, ‘OK, the government’s lying to me,’” Mr. McKesson said. “Before, that would have sounded like a conspiracy theory.”

The article notes that while police chiefs express frustration with ICE tactics, communities of color—particularly in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods—have experienced similar patterns of violence and lack of accountability from local law enforcement for decades.