Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Witnesses and video say agents boxed in Salgado Araujo’s van and opened fire without warning, while ICE says he tried to ram an officer.
- On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston.
- ICE officials alleged Araujo refused commands and used his vehicle to ram an officer, prompting them to fire in self-defense, though this account has faced immediate skepticism.
- Attorney Hugo Balderas-Ibarra reported that three witnesses in the van contradict the official account, stating officers fired from the sides; detainee Jose Trinidad Rojas wrote, "That is a lie."
- Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, stated authorities are pressuring the three detained witnesses to sign self-deportation orders, removing potential contestors of the government's narrative.
- David Bier of the Cato Institute and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council noted that video evidence lacks damage consistent with ICE's ramming claim, with Reichlin-Melnick stating "ICE's story is falling apart.
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A 52-year-old man from Mexico dies after an ICE mission in Texas, the US Homeland Protection Court speaks of »self-defence«. Eyewitnesses, however, contradict the official version of the events.
It happened in Houston, Texas, where 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado resided without regular migration status. According to the federal reconstruction, the man would try to invest a policeman who would then act in self-defense. But the three men aboard the vehicle...
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The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed out to work on yet another house somewhere across the sprawl of Houston.
It has been four days since an immigration agent shot Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on the street in a Hispanic neighborhood of Houston in broad daylight. At that time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been adjusting its version of the facts. But the voice of the three passengers who were going on the white van with Salgado has begun to take hold, contradicting the official version and adding to the family’s request for a…
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