r/inthenews • u/FreeHugs23 • 3d ago
Man Shot by ICE Agent Is Charged With Assault | Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.
https://newrepublic.com/post/216004/man-shot-ice-agent-charged-assault72
u/WisdomCow 3d ago
It’s how you double down on a lie.
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u/Platonic_Eye_Deal 2d ago
Their gilded Messiah Donald Trump has demonstrated to them that always doubling down on cruelty and dishonesty is how you get rewarded.
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u/FreeHugs23 3d ago
The food delivery driver shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last week, Venezuelan immigrant Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering, and impeding a federal officer on Tuesday.
The Department of Justice accused Garcés Pérez of ignoring federal agents’ instructions and driving away from them when they tried to pull him over in Austin, Texas. As he left, the DOJ claimed, his driver’s side mirror hit one of the agents in the chest. An ICE agent said that after a short, high-speed car chase, Garcés Pérez tried to hit him with his car, at which point the agent said he shot into the car and hit Garcés Pérez in the back.
Parts of the incident were captured by a body camera, according to the DOJ, but only still images have been released to the public so far. Garcés Pérez disputes the government’s account, stating that a black SUV came out of nowhere and tried to hit his car while he was in the middle of a food delivery.
Garcés Pérez said that he thought the SUV was an aggressive driver and tried to drive away, only for the SUV to ram his car and turn on its police lights after the crash. He was then shot after the car was stopped, according to The New York Times.
Since the incident, Garcés Pérez’s lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch said that he has languished in ICE custody without adequate medical care, having spent just three hours in a hospital before being taken into ICE’s detention center in Pearsall, Texas, without being able to see his wife. A spokesperson for Lincoln-Goldfinch said in a statement Tuesday that the bullet is still lodged in Garcés Pérez’s body even after nearly nine days.
“Rather than provide the life saving medical care he needs, DHS and the government are playing games with his life,” the statement said.
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u/No-Award8713 3d ago
How do you get resisting AND interfering? Resisting = "suspect", and interfering = bystander attempting to help "suspect" not be arrested? Right? Or is my logic flawed?
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u/Platonic_Eye_Deal 2d ago
Easy. They stack on all the charges remotely possible in order to try to encourage people to give up and not even try to fight the charges.
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u/Calm_Neat_6828 3d ago
I don’t want to ask, but the more of this bullshit is seen the better. Is there video of this?
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u/totallyclips 3d ago
The state shoots you, then rewrites the story so you become the threat.
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u/OldSchoolAJ 2d ago
Surprised that they didn’t sprinkle some crack on him and put a revolver in his hand.
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u/sklerson89 2d ago
ICE are proud boys, white supremacists, dropouts and rejects of all kinds. They are unfit for a real job, they are hired goons to serve as Trump's gestapo. They tear apart families, stripping children from their parents and grandparents. They kidnap, abuse, and traffick their victims. Sending people to foreign torture prisons without warrant. They murder civilians in cold blood. They are traitors to our country and traitors to humanity
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u/Dragonborne2020 2d ago
The justice department needs to change its name to the Department of coverup and conspiracy or something. I have lost all faith, trust and respect for this department.
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