ICE agents ‘looking for someone else’ when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo | First Thing

According to The Guardian, the Department of Homeland Security says Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a Houston traffic stop this week, was not the intended target of the operation. ICE agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they stopped Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the United States for thirty-five years and was driving three others to work early Tuesday. The agency claims he weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an officer, who then fired in self-defense, but it provided no evidence to corroborate that account, and the officers involved were not wearing body cameras. The Guardian notes ICE has used the same defense before, including in the Minneapolis killing of Renee Good, where video evidence later contradicted the agency's description.

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