A Man Dies, ICE Lies

 

Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE thugs Tuesday as he drove to work, the victim of mistaken identity.  Now, the official ICE account of Araujo's murder is unraveling:

"A statement from federal officials about what led to the fatal shooting of a man in Houston during an immigration operation this week doesn’t match the version of events from three men detained during the incident, an attorney who spoke with them says.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have said an agent opened fire after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, rammed a law enforcement vehicle and refused to follow verbal commands during a a traffic stop that was part of a 'targeted operation' Tuesday.

But attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra said three men detained during the operation told him the version of events presented by ICE is false.

'At no point did they use the van to ram into the ICE agents and at no point were these ICE agents’ lives ever in any danger,' Balderas-Ibarra said in a video posted to his Instagram.

The men said the agent who shot Salgado Araujo opened fire almost immediately after exiting his vehicle, Balderas-Ibarra told The Washington Post. CNN has reached out to Balderas-Ibarra and ICE for comment."  (our emphasis)

The ICE goons, who were not wearing body cameras of course, were "tipped" that two undocumented men that they wanted to detain were traveling in a white van, neither of whom turned out to be Araujo.  Also, you can imagine how many white vans there are in the Houston area, but when dealing with brown people, the Malignant Fascist's trigger-happy StormTrumpers dispense with Constitutional niceties.

There are multiple investigations of the killing underway, including the Harris County District Attorney's office.  As with the investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the MF's Federal law enforcement officials are withholding information from local authorities.  "Investigations" by the Homeland Security's Inspector General and the local FBI are expected to white wash the killing, blame the victim and exonerate  ICE.

BONUS:  Now they're trying to deport the witnesses to the murder.

(photo: members of Araujo's family at a press conference. Antranik Tavitian/Reuters)