>> The new project is underway with the goal of holding federal immigration agents accused of misconduct accountable.

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is behind the initiative called the Ice Accountability Project and it allows community members to submit their own documentation of incidents that comes in the wake of last week's fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole.

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And joining us now with more is Lori Lightfoot.

Welcome back, Chicago tonight.

Thanks for joining us.

It's good to be here.

So the state has already launched what it's calling the Illinois Accountability Commission.

It will hold hearings and similarly create a public record of what residents have been experiencing during Operation Midway Blitz.

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Difference?

I think that project.

>> report ICE now dot com.

I have to get that.

In course.

All will really be working in harmony with the state.

The head of commission, former chief Judge Ruben Castillo, somebody I've known for 30 years and work with on arrange different projects.

We talked about are 2 separate missions.

I think what understand the states project, they will primarily focus on really assessing the harm to individuals and families and community, which is obviously a very important thing.

We are creating a centralized repository for people who have collected video audio and other information about what ICE is done in Chicago and really Chicago land.

So we have a centralized repository for hopefully later holding people accountable.

Hopefully local law enforcement.

We'll look at this information not have to search across various social media platforms, find individuals.

We want to house all that information here.

One for transparency, but also for accountability.

And the second aspect of the project is focused on so called unmasking the agents.

We're not talking about Boxing Federation's, but there are agents said you have seen on videotape that of look like they're committed crimes.

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Gonzalez was killed in September on 12 Miss Mary Maher.

Martinez was shot.

Luckily not killed, but we have to hold these people accountable for doing egregious things and obviously local law enforcement call and strikes.

But we want to create information that they can readily access to make decisions about who should or should not be charged.

So to that point in an op-ed, you note that quote to date, no federal immigration agent has been investigated by local county or state law enforcement authorities for these incidents.

Not one.

>> Are there even legal avenues for local governments to pursue investigations beyond filing suit?

Yes, of course, if a homicide committed like an instance of Mister Gonzalez in Franklin Park, that's a homicide that's committed within the local county jurisdiction.

And the county prosecutor certainly has jurisdiction over that.

Now there's a lot of questions that have to be resolved around immunity and so forth.

There's a homicide that's been committed.

Certainly this was done by any other local law enforcement, particularly local law enforcement.

There'd be no question that there would be and investigation.

And again, we want to incentivize by collecting the information, the local authorities who have the ability to do something about these allegations of criminal conduct in serious misconduct like excessive force, like indiscriminate use chemical agents and tear gas.

We want them to be able to do their jobs effectively and frankly not have what happened Minnesota regarding the killing importance.

Good where the feds come in and sweep all the information and really hamper the ability of local law enforcement to do its job.

You mentioned immunity.

We have spoken to both Attorney General Kwame Raoul about this just yesterday and the day before that.

Professor Harold Credit, what is your read on law enforcement officers and how much immunity they have in these cases?

>> Well, I think the Supreme Court in a last session called us V Martin opened up the door and made it very clear that there is possibility for least on the civil side forum on suit against individual officers when they are accused violating people's civil rights on cruel is much more complicated issue.

But the Supreme Court hasn't closed the door There's no evidence whatsoever in those statutes somehow vice President dance tried to declare that officers who committed agents who commit egregious crimes against residents are some home I don't think that's what the state of the lies at this point.

>> The project launched last week.

What kind of reception have you gotten as far as other uploads and incidents being reported to the website?

Well, we've had over 1000 people within 24 48 hours visit the website.

We're starting to see up close.

I think there's a great opportunity for us to continue reaching out to communities and the activists and stakeholders to educate them about this resource is available.

But we feel very, very good about how this project has been received in lots of different quarters, not only here, but really across the country that to the extent of the people hearing about it, they're excited about the opportunity.

How are you and your team confirming the veracity of these videos?

I think folks want to know that you like something that's it is going to >> get slipped Well, that's a great question.

So we're doing in a couple different ways.

We are.

working on AI tool ourselves to be able detect whether or not the information, particularly video information has been altered in some way.

But there's multiple levels of review.

There's a front line level review that looks at the information on to confirm date time location.

You luckily here in Chicago when these incidents happen, there's a lot of reporting there's a lot of Facebook and social media acknowledgement of when these out opportunities happen.

And then there's a second line review that's going clued myself.

Other lawyers, former federal agents to make sure, frankly, we're not getting duped into posting something that never actually happened.

So we working every precaution that we possibly can.

We have people sign up to be able to post information on the Web site.

So we've got different layers, a review checking to make sure that whatever we decide to publish is actually accurate.

You the team, right?

You mention former federal agents, attorneys you yourself, of course, former federal prosecutor in addition to former Mayor City of Chicago.

>> Who is working with you on this and who's minding at who's behind you?

you know, obvious reasons, we're keeping identities and folks that are involved confidential, but they are people that I have known and work with over number 15 years old in my time a former federal prosecutor.

In my time as a lawyer and frankly, since launch number of people reach out and say, hey, I'd like to be involved.

How can I help?

And you look, we've been fortunate with generous funding, but we're going to keep the donors identities confidential right now.

Once you have collected this repository, of course, photos, videos reports from all the people on the ground.

What you hope comes of all all of it.

I think a couple things.

One.

>> I hope that it adds to a level of transparency about what's been happening.

And when you look at the number of incidents that have happened and have every reason to believe, unfortunately, that is going to continue.

They're going to come back probably when the weather gets warmer.

We're going to see I'm asking folks, come back.

But it is pretty eye opening and alarming to see the number incidents aggregated together in one spot.

The other thing is what I've been very proud watching people across Chicago in Chicago land is how they found their voice.

People that aren't necessarily out there in the street on a regular basis or activists.

feel very animated about this and are doing lots of things, whether it's joining safety patrol for kids to get to school, whether using the whistles act alert, people or neighborhood ice active in and present in the neighborhoods beyond protesting both, you know, in their neighborhoods downtown at the Broadview ICE facility.

People are finding their voice here.

And really, I think we've become a model for the nation.

Obviously l a got the first wave of But I think we've taken the tools that we found in LA here in Chicago and really refined them in ways and receiving those tools now being used in Minneapolis.

Going back to your time as mayor a bit 2021 probe by the Office of Inspector General found that the city and the Chicago Police Department botched the response to the protests.

>> And the unrest that were triggered by the George Floyd murder in May of 2020.

The report said that officers who struck punched and kicked protesters will not be held accountable.

Do you see a difference between the conduct behavior?

Chicago police officers at the time and Department of Homeland Security officers partaking in this conduct.

Well, let me first say Aye.

Aye at the time and still fundamentally disagree with.

>> That assessment by the inspector general's office.

We were facing very unprecedented times.

We were facing not just peaceful protests but people who came for fight and people who wanted to provoke actions on the part Chicago police officers.

But I think, you know, if you look at my contemporaries statements, you look at this down, the statements of on former Superintendent David Brown.

We never apologized or try to do anything other than hold officers accountable from boats.

Small things like taking alternate tax.

That's not acceptable.

Not having their body cameras not acceptable, engaging escalating tactics instead de-escalating.

Now, to be clear, as I said, our police face unprecedented challenges by vigilantes who wanted to fight.

They weren't just the peaceful protesters.

The peaceful protests over and over again, hijacked by people who had a very different agenda.

But obviously I've spent my aunt big chunk of my professional and adult life working on police reform and accountability issues.

And the fact of the matter is when things happen and went wrong in Chicago, we held officers accountable.

We had a number of oversight mechanism.

You're not seeing that at federal level and that's the problem.

Okay.

Well, that's where we'll have to leave it.

5 seconds.

Mayor, could we see a return to political arena for you?

>> You know, I don't see that happening you know, I there are many things about being a mayor that I enjoyed.

And then I miss.

But I'm content to be