Minneapolis officials have released surveillance footage of a federal officer shooting a man on the city’s north side in January. The release comes nearly two months after the officers involved were reprimanded for lying about the encounter.
Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were placed on leave for lying under oath about the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. The Department of Homeland Security itself repeated the officers’ false narrative about Sosa-Celis and another man assaulting them with a shovel and broomstick, and federal assault charges against the two men were dropped.
The new video from Minneapolis, captured on a city-owned camera about half a block away from where the shooting happened, does little to elucidate the events. A federal agent can be seen tackling a man to the ground and struggling with him. Because of the distance, quality and lack of sound, it’s unclear when the shooting happens, though city officials say it is in the footage…