The immigration enforcement officers involved in an operation that resulted in the shooting death of a man in Houston were not wearing body cameras at the time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday. And the father of three who died was not the agents’ intended target, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia.
A spokesperson for Garcia, the Houston Democrat whose district includes the predominantly Latino area where the shooting took place Tuesday morning, said she had spoken with David Venturella, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Venturella allegedly told Garcia that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed on Tuesday by an ICE agent, was not the intended target of the operation.
“Another passenger had an administrative warrant and was the target,” Joseph Guzman, a spokesperson for Garcia, told Houston Public Media.
Remember how there was that brief spike in convictions of cops planting evidence, for about six months until the cops figured out the body cam kept recording for about 30 seconds after pressing the off button? Then poof magically this spike disappeared after the cops learned this.
I remember.
Spike in convictions? LMAO. You mean a spike in dropped drug charges. I’m betting all those cops are still on the force.
For anything that happens when a cop’s body cam is turned off, it should legally be assumed the cop is lying.
They should record for a random amount of time between 30 seconds and five minutes after being turned off
They should record from the moment they’re taken off of a charger until they’re put back on, I think. Makes their use even easier! Nothing to complain about, right, cops? Right, guys? Please?