Texas Democrats demand release, bodycam video after ICE shooting of Austin delivery driver<\/a><\/p>\nPolice said investigators have seen video showing two ICE officers at Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez\u2019s vehicle window, but it is unclear how long they had been speaking with him before the available video began.<\/p>\n
When asked whether there was evidence of a foot chase before the shooting, police said there was not.<\/p>\n
Investigators said they have not yet determined whether there was a justifiable reason for the shooting. Austin police said they were only hours into the investigation and are working to piece together the timeline using surveillance cameras, bystander video and other evidence.<\/p>\n
The department\u2019s Special Investigations Unit is working alongside the Texas Rangers, police said. Officials said they communicate daily with federal authorities but had not yet requested body-camera video or other footage directly from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez was shot Sunday during an ICE operation on Austin\u2019s north side. His attorney has said he was working as a DoorDash delivery driver when he was shot.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security has said Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez had a final order of removal. His attorney has disputed parts of the government\u2019s account and said he entered the United States through the CBP One program while seeking asylum.<\/p>\n
After the shooting, Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez was treated at a hospital before he was transferred to the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez was later taken back to the hospital because he was in significant pain and still had a bullet lodged in his left side.<\/p>\n
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez\u2019s deportation, according to his attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.<\/p>\n
Lincoln-Goldfinch said her office filed a federal lawsuit on his behalf. She said the judge ordered Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez to be present for his first hearing, scheduled for Sept. 30, meaning he cannot be deported before then.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now, we have secured a temporary block on his deportation while his case moves forward,\u201d Lincoln-Goldfinch wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said he was troubled that Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez was taken from the hospital without his spouse being told.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always hope under the circumstances that somebody\u2019s going to get the full medical care that they need and deserve,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n
Watson said he could not judge the medical decisions made in the case, but added that he would expect more than a few hours in the hospital if he had been shot in the back.<\/p>\n
Police said they have not received an update on Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez\u2019s condition. Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the FBI, is also investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (6:30 PM) – Reps. Castro and Casar will visit Wilber at the Pearsall facility, where he has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-444754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444754","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=444754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}