Mexican Man Killed by ICE in Houston Was Not the Target | Officials say agents believed a passenger resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/us/witnesses-houston-ice-shooting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.xR3t.SivTsYm2gSoC
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Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone · 43 pts · 60d
Agents killed someone they are entirely happy to have killed. As far as ICE is concerned, this was a job well done.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 60d
"Dead is still out of the country"
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 59d
"Was he brown?"
"Yes."
"So what's the problem? Get back to work."
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 60d
Officials say. So it's a worthless statement by known liars. Their credibility isn't just damaged. It's non-existent.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 59d
EVERYTHING we hear out of this administration should be assumed to be a lie. If you hear job numbers from them, then they have been manipulated. If they are bad numbers, that only means the real numbers were far worse.
EVERYTHING is a lie.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 20 pts · 59d
I am mighty sick of hearing this lie.
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 59d
You would think ICE would realize at this point that standing in front of a vehicle is a bad idea but maybe that's the point. Stand in front of the vehicle and any movement can be viewed as an attack and they can open fire.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 2 pts · 58d
That's the thing. While some agencies do, I think, intentionally put themselves in harm's way just so they can shoot someone, ICE is different. They don't bother with that, probably because their so chicken-shit they don't want to take a chance that the car might really come at them. ICE just makes this claim, over and over, and then when a video finally comes out, you can see that they were standing next to the car and shooting in through the side windows.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
Same. It immediately rang those alarm bells for the last time this happened, they claimed they were hit and you see the footage of the ice agent going "let's do this" and jerking the wheel to slam into the other car.
BouteilleBrune@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 59d
at this point it's just what americans do