ICE 'Brutality' Goes Unscathed, While Newsweek Reports It As a 'Woman Says'
The story recounts a terrifying ordeal: a family pulled over, a husband extracted, and the sound of a taser, all while his pregnant wife watched. Newsweek faithfully reproduces the woman's account, allowing ICE to issue a boilerplate 'commitment to safety and security' denial. What's missing is any broader context of ICE's documented history of excessive force, which consistently raises questions
about accountability, or the legal 'black holes' immigrants often vanish into. Instead of merely reporting a 'woman says,' one might wonder why the media rarely frames these incidents as 'ICE's documented history of violence continues' or 'Another instance of state-sanctioned terror against migrants.' Is it truly a 'brutal' incident if the word 'brutal' remains safely within scare quotes and
attributed only to the victim's shocked testimony? Apparently, some brutalities are just less newsworthy than others until they're given a victim to voice them.