Man who was killed by ICE in Texas never ‘weaponized’ his vehicle, witnesses say

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:44:38 GMT

Lawyer says men who were riding in van are being pressured to self-deport as footage of incident is reportedly with investigatorsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe three men who were in the van when federal immigration officials shot and killed a man in Houston, Texas, this week are strongly disputing the Trump administration’s narrative of the events and are being pressured to sign deportation orders, according to their lawyer and lawmakers.The three men, who were arrested by immigration officials during the incident, denied that the driver of the vehicle, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, “weaponized” his vehicle against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. They also told their lawyer that there was never an ICE official in front of the van and that the shots that killed Salgado came from the “sides” of the vehicle. Continue reading...

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Left: ICE Keeps Using the Same Justification for Killing Drivers — www.motherjones.com
Center-Left: Houston neighbors started seeing more ICE agents around. Then came a fatal shooting. — www.npr.org
Center-Right: What to know about fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — thehill.com
Center-Left: Houston to Investigate How ICE Agent Came to Kill a Mexican Immigrant — www.nytimes.com
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