Answer: Trump's DHS head Kristi Noem thinks it is "violence" to peacefully videotape ICE agents. How concerning is it a senior official thinking Americans exercising their First Amendment rights is "violence"?

For context, this is a question I answered on Quora

For further context this is her remarks defining “violence”:

"Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles," Secretary Noem told the media. "We've seen Molotov cocktails thrown at them.”

Here she is clearly conflating filming ICE agents with doxxing, which is not the same thing, and doxxing with actual violence, which it is not. Filming police is freedom of the press under the first amendment as stipulated in Smith v. City of Cumming, Glik v. Cunniffe, ACLU of Illinois v. Alvarez, Fields v. City of Philadelphia, and Turner v. Driver. Including it in a list of things that are illegal is not only disingenuous but suggest Noem has the same stance on the first amendment as the rest of the admin I.e. that is cumbersome obstacle towards their objectives. Encouraging other people to come throw things would be a crime (incitement of violence) in itself with or without capturing video of the event, so adding “videotapping” is completely unnecessary even if she didn’t mean to imply that it was a crime.