ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston Street Today. It's Using the Same Script It Always Uses.
ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on a Houston Street Today. It's Using the Same Script It Always Uses. No video. No independent witness. Just ICE's word — the same word that didn't hold up the last three times. Pablo Manríquez Jul 7 WASHINGTON — Lorenzo Salgado Araujo bled out on Canal Street in Houston’s East End before 7 a.m. Tuesday, shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during what the agency is calling a routine “targeted enforcement operation.” His family has not yet had the chance to call it anything at all. ICE says Araujo tried to flee a traffic stop, rammed an agency vehicle and attempted to run over an officer — the same justification the agency has offered in at least three other fatal or near-fatal shootings by immigration agents since Trump’s second-term deportation push began. In every one of those cases, video or the paper trail eventually cut against the government’s version. As of Tuesday night, no video of the Araujo shooting has...