Texas Rep. Al Green is demanding an ICE shooting investigation after accusing the Trump administration of possibly concealing evidence surrounding the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.<\/p>\n
During an interview with Democracy Now!<\/a>, the Texas Democrat said, \u201cMy belief is that there is an attempt to cover up currently taking place.\u201d Green, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, argued that federal officials have withheld evidence from local authorities while advancing an account disputed by Salgado Araujo\u2019s family.<\/p>\n An ICE agent fatally shot Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican father of three, on July 7 in Houston\u2019s Magnolia Park neighborhood. ICE said agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation when he tried to ram a federal vehicle and run over the officer who fired the fatal shot.<\/p>\n His family and local officials dispute that account. They say federal authorities have not released video or eyewitness evidence supporting the agency\u2019s allegations. Green joined Reps. Sylvia Garcia, Lizzie Fletcher and Christian Menefee in requesting an independent investigation and complete, unedited body-camera footage from every officer present.<\/p>\n Pressure for transparency has grown beyond Houston. Kamala Harris called for an immediate, independent and transparent review<\/a> of the killing, while Menefee challenged ICE\u2019s account and demanded that all evidence be released publicly.<\/a><\/p>\n Green compared the government\u2019s response to its handling of earlier fatal encounters involving Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota. He said withholding evidence from local authorities could allow federal officials to control how the case reaches a grand jury and limit outside scrutiny.<\/p>\n Democratic lawmakers also planned a public field hearing in Houston to gather testimony from residents and people familiar with the shooting. Green said the hearing would help keep the case in public view as national attention shifts to other immigration enforcement incidents.<\/p>\n The congressman also framed the demand for an ICE shooting investigation as an issue connecting Black and Latino communities. He warned against attempts to divide the groups and said both must confront discrimination together while seeking transparency and accountability for Salgado Araujo\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rep. Al Green is demanding an ICE shooting investigation after accusing the Trump administration of possibly concealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,3647,134580,27],"class_list":["post-381061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-rep-al-green","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381061","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=381061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}