An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot a man from Mexico after conducting a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday.
Federal authorities have characterized the shooting as an act of “self-defense,” claiming that the man, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, sought to evade arrest and attempted to run over an ICE officer with his vehicle.
Araujo’s family and civil rights organizations, however, are calling for an independent investigation.
The incident comes about six months after federal officers shot and killed two Americans in separate encounters during the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, sparking outrage from people across the country and triggering widespread protests. Federal officials' accounts of what unfolded in those incidents were contradicted by videos that were recorded by bystanders and made public in the wake of the shootings.
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Here’s what we know about the shooting in Houston and what federal authorities and Araujo’s family are saying.
Shortly before 7 a.m. local time on Tuesday, ICE officers tried “to conduct a vehicle stop as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a social media post. The agency said that the driver, identified as Araujo, “attempted to evade arrest.”
“From information we are receiving, he rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense,” DHS said. The agency didn’t provide evidence to support those claims.
Araujo was taken to a hospital after being shot, where he died from his injuries, according to DHS.
DHS said that its inspector general’s office is conducting an investigation into the incident, and that the FBI Houston office is investigating the alleged assault on a federal law enforcement officer.
What does Araujo’s family say?
Araujo’s son, Ronaldo Salgado, said at a press conference on Wednesday that his father was a construction worker who was driving to pick up his colleagues to finish work on some houses at the time of the shooting. Salgado said that his father was likely scared when he saw that unmarked cars were following him.
“Had my father seen an emblem of ICE, or an emblem that says anything about a law enforcement agency, my father would have complied; he would have stopped,” Salgado said. He went on to say that his father may have been worried that the people following him would try and steal the tools he needed for work.
According to Salgado, it seemed as though three other people were detained by federal officers after the shooting. Salgado said that one of those men was his uncle.
Araujo had been living in the U.S. for about 35 years and had been working to try to obtain legal status in the country, Salgado said.
“He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE,” Salgado said. “He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”
Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas, who joined Araujo’s family at the press conference on Wednesday, said that Araujo had no criminal record. She demanded a “full,” “transparent,” and “independent” investigation into the incident.
“ICE has released its version of the story,” Garcia said. “They made serious allegations against Lorenzo, but they’re only allegations so please remember that. It’s ICE’s story. And it’s a story that is too similar to something else that we’ve heard.”
She referenced the shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis in January. Federal officials claimed the shooting was an act of “self-defense,” accusing Good of trying to run over an officer with her car. But video footage of the incident contradicted the Trump Administration’s portrayal.
“Remember Minneapolis? Remember Renee Good?” Garcia continued. “Has ICE learned nothing from that experience?”
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