{"id":865249,"date":"2026-09-29T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865249\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:38:08","slug":"immigrant-shot-by-ice-in-austin-is-charged-with-assault-by-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865249\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant shot by ICE in Austin is charged with assault by Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OV2M6N2GYBGXNATKM3FLTQIMSI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Justice Department filed assault charges Tuesday against a Venezuelan immigrant shot by a federal immigration officer in Austin.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"C6H6XQN5BZEOZPIECB5V7K2QTI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">An unsealed affidavit said the man, Wilber Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez, struck a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in the torso with his vehicle\u2019s side-view mirror as he fled the scene of a traffic stop Sept. 20. He then led that officer and another on what was described as a high-speed pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Justice Department filed assault charges Tuesday against a Venezuelan immigrant shot by a federal immigration officer in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-865249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}