🇺🇸 ICE Shooting Raises Camera Questions

An ICE officer in Austin shot 28-year-old Venezuelan Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez on Sunday while he was delivering for DoorDash. DHS officials told NBC the officer had been issued a body camera but was not wearing it. A second ICE officer had partial footage, but not the shooting itself. Garcés Pérez was hospitalized, then placed in ICE custody. A judge temporarily blocked deportation.

The facts point to a familiar federal pattern: force first, accountability later, evidence missing at the critical moment. Washington talks oversight, but when cameras go dark and a wounded foreign national is moved into detention, the system looks built to control the witness as much as the narrative.

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