{"id":367910,"date":"2026-07-10T05:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367910\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:43:45","slug":"ice-officers-not-wearing-body-cameras-during-deadly-houston-ice-shooting-dhs-says-as-family-pushes-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367910\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE officers not wearing body cameras during deadly Houston ICE shooting, DHS says, as family pushes for answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>ByLuke Barr and Meredith Deliso  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 9, 2026 10:43PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC News Live\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were not wearing body-worn cameras during the\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/man-fatally-shot-ice-officer-houston\/story?id=134563739\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly ICE shooting<\/a>\u00a0of a Mexican national during an operation in Houston this week, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The officers were &#8220;not issued&#8221; body-worn cameras, according to a DHS spokesperson, who pointed to two partial government shutdowns &#8212; one in the fall of 2025 and the other one earlier this year &#8212; for the delay in issuing them to ICE law enforcement officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The process of purchasing and issuing body-worn cameras to all of our ICE field offices was interrupted by the Democrats multiple government shutdowns,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;Body cameras have been deployed to more than half the field offices with the remaining half to receive them in the next 60 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The update comes as the family of the man killed in Tuesday&#8217;s shooting, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and local officials are pushing for answers and demanding an independent and transparent investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on Tuesday. ByLuke Barr and Meredith Deliso Thursday, July 9, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130363,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-367910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-130363","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}