After the investigative material was released Friday, lawyers for #RubenMartinez’s mother, Rachel Reyes, said the footage called the government’s narrative into question.
“These new videos confirm that Ruben’s car was barely moving when he was shot,” Charles M. Stam & Alex Stamm said in a statement. “That he was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger.”

#Trump #law #murder #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #fascism #tyranny #HSI #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung

In a fourth case, 2 #ICE officers were suspended & placed under federal investigation after making false statements about the nonfatal #shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, in Minneapolis.

While those cases drew immediate & intense public scrutiny, #DHS did not publicly acknowledge that one of its agents had fatally shot #RubenMartinez in TX, until last month, when a lawsuit brought by a nonprofit government watchdog group unearthed the agency’s narrative of the incident.