New surveillance footage has emerged contradicting ICE’s account of a brutal shooting incident in Minneapolis.
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg by a federal agent in January. DHS subsequently claimed the agent had been violently attacked by Sosa-Celis and his cousin, Alfredo A. Aljorna, and that the officer feared “for his life and safety.”
Then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called the Jan. 14 incident an “attempted murder of federal law enforcement” and that the officer “was ambushed and attacked by three individuals who beat him with snow shovels and the handles of brooms” and fired “a defensive shot.”
The Justice Department dropped charges against the men in February, with two ICE agents placed on administrative leave. ICE acting director Todd Lyons confirmed that “video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements” in a statement at the time…