ICE incidents in Illinois and Texas draw scrutiny as investigations continue
Separate incidents involving federal immigration agents in Illinois and Texas are drawing scrutiny as authorities work to determine what happened.
(CNN)- Separate incidents involving federal immigration agents in Illinois and Texas are drawing scrutiny as authorities work to determine what happened.
Surveillance video from Evanston, Illinois, shows a struggle Sunday involving a U.S. citizen who police said was mistakenly targeted by federal immigration agents.
Evanston police said the agents were looking for someone else and released the man after determining he was not their target. The man suffered injuries to his head, neck and teeth and was taken to a hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security said agents encountered a man who resembled the person they were seeking. According to the department, agents identified themselves, but the man refused to identify himself and did not comply with commands.
The incident happened the same day an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot 28-year-old Venezuelan national Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin, Texas.
Garces Perez was working as a DoorDash driver at the time of the shooting. His attorney has disputed initial accounts that he fled on foot before he was shot, saying her client was driving when the encounter occurred.
Garces Perez was hospitalized after the shooting and later transferred to an immigration detention center. His attorney said he was subsequently returned to a hospital for additional treatment.
Newly released video shows body camera footage from an Austin police officer who arrived shortly after the shooting. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said a detective also used a personal dash camera and cellphone to document what he observed.
“Our investigators are continuing to work to establish the facts of what occurred,” Davis said.
The ICE officer who shot Garces Perez was not wearing a body camera, according to CBS News, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
The developments came as relatives of Renee Good, a Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an ICE officer in January, testified during a congressional hearing Tuesday.
The joint Senate and House hearing examined the deaths of Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, along with three other people killed by federal immigration authorities in Texas and Maine.
