Camille Baldwin-Bonney doesn’t buy it.

The police accountability advocate and co-chair of People Power Washington called Mayor Bruce Harrell’s new anti-ICE executive orders “performative rather than substantive”—a feel-good gesture from the same administration wiring CCTV surveillance cameras throughout the city that federal agents may be able to get their hands on, despite the council’s circuit breaker of a policy that shuts down the CCTVs if the feds subpoena.

In preparation, Mayor Bruce Harrell issued an executive order that instructed the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to write a “directive” for how officers should respond to ICE encounters, barring them from aiding federal agents.

“To then be saying, ‘Well, I’m standing up to ICE and federal agents,’—you’re handing them over tools

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