Fiona Apple Narrates Video About ICE Arrests: Watch

Fiona Apple has narrated a new short film about how to safely document and record U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests, Vulture reports. The video is made in partnership with We Have Rights, Brooklyn Defender Services, and WITNESS. Watch the video and find a Spanish-language version (narrated by activist Erika Andiola) below.

Apple discussed the short film in a new interview with Vulture’s Rachel Handler. “I think this video is absolutely essential,” Apple said. “When I was reading the script, I felt really lucky to be able to read it aloud and learn it. It’s such valuable information. Everybody can help out.”

Apple added:

I think so many people want to help and they don’t know how. They feel
like they have no way of helping. But if you’ve got eyes, ears, a
notepad, and a pencil, you can help. But you have to know the rules to
be able to help. You might be trying to help and film an immigrant or
their family member, and you end up hurting them. Just film the
badges, the street signs. Or maybe you don’t make a copy of the film.
Or know that you need a six-digit pass code in order to exercise our
Fifth Amendment right—we need to stop with the fingerprint and face
recognition. Or [know] that you have to keep on filming. Don’t stop
filming! And saving the unedited version so you can go back and see
all the facts. It’s all such valuable information. Getting that info
and learning it, for me, at least, makes me feel equipped to help. At
least I feel like a basic level of “OK, if something happened around
me, I could be of use. I can take out my phone or use my mind and
write things down. I can at least bear witness.”