Five months. That’s how long The Intercept has been demanding that ICE hand over evidence of its own violence — including the killing of Renee Nicole Good. We just filed our last appeal. Our next step is taking the government to court. ICE is legally required to release these records under the Freedom of Information Act. It’s refusing. The only conclusion is that the agency is embarrassed by what its agents did. The Intercept’s legal team is preparing to do whatever it takes to force the Trump administration to obey the law. This could be a long and costly legal fight — and as a reader-funded news outlet, we need your help to see it through. If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Intercept reporter Jonah Valdez first submitted the FOIA request on January 22 for 12 incidents in which ICE agents brutalized people in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C. Two of the ICE agents involved are now facing felony assault charges. ICE is still hiding the footage. We are done waiting. We have the legal firepower to ensure that agencies actually hand over the footage and documents the public is entitled to see. We will not back down. But it can take months or even years to prevail in this kind of open-records litigation. Most nonprofit newsrooms don’t have the needed resources, and most larger corporate outlets won’t go to the mat with this administration. The Intercept exists to do exactly this — to fight the fights that others won’t. Will you donate $5 to help us expose what ICE is hiding about these violent incidents? 
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