It was seven years ago now, but it still feels like yesterday that 23 people were gunned down in El Paso because of how they looked. And today, as much as I’m thinking about the 23 taken from us, I’m also thinking of a 24th.
Just a few weeks ago, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot to death by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston.
Lorenzo was an unarmed man with no criminal history who was killed on his way to work. Witnesses say ICE agents rammed his vehicle then opened fire – and that they were never in any danger from Lorenzo.
The federal government has insisted on investigating itself and claimed no one had any of the body cameras ICE was given $20 million for. It has yet to provide any evidence to justify the shooting other than leaning into a lie that drugs were found in the vehicle afterwards. Testing revealed that was never true…