Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has informed The Intercept that it’s refusing our Freedom of Information Act requests for body camera footage from the shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. It’s been over three months since Pretti and Good were killed, and most of the news media has moved on. 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 many larger corporate outlets lose interest by the time the records are produced. But The Intercept’s legal team has just filed an appeal and is prepared to do whatever it takes to force the Trump administration to obey the law, no matter how long it takes. If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: If Trump and his underlings think they can just ignore FOIA, they are sorely mistaken. For months, federal agents have been terrorizing communities, detaining children, separating families, gunning down civilians, and arresting journalists. At the same time, at least 47 people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since Trump took office — nearly double the number of people who died in the previous four years. That’s why we’re using FOIA to force ICE, DHS, and other agencies to release the documents and the body camera footage that we need to expose the truth. But with the administration denying our request and attempting to cover up the truth, we’re taking legal action. The Intercept will not back down — and thanks to the generosity of Intercept readers like you, we have the legal firepower to ensure that agencies actually hand over the footage and documents the public is entitled to see. 
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