When a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a man 10 minutes from journalist Lila Hassan’s parents’ Brooklyn home four years ago, she began looking into how many other people have been shot by ICE agents. To get that information, she had to file a lawsuit against ICE to obtain records of all of the ICE-officer-involved shootings from 2015-2021. The records led to a full-scale analysis, fueling 20 additional open-records requests to local and state agencies to find that there’s no evidence that any shooting resulted in a criminal conviction. After collecting media reports and lawsuits, Hassan found that ICE officers (sometimes off-duty) shot people in public places, endangering bystanders, and that sometimes the people they shot weren’t the target of an arrest or operation. In this time, ICE officers have shot and killed 23 people. Hassan’s reporting, with support from the Fund, was co-published by Business Insider, The Trace and Type Investigations.
After years-long investigation, grantee publishes first-ever reporting of shootings by ICE officers
