Footage contrasts from Trump officials’ account that officer was ‘seriously injured’ by immigrant who was fatally shot
Police body camera footage released on Tuesday shows a federal immigration agent who fatally shot a Mexican immigrant describing his own injuries during a vehicle pursuit as “nothing major”, a contrast from the Trump administration’s characterization of events in suburban Chicago earlier this month.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said the officer was “seriously injured” by Silverio Villegas González, who allegedly tried to evade arrest after agents pulled over his car in Franklin Park. Nearly three hours of video and audio clips obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request shed new light on the shooting that has escalated tensions amid a federal immigration crackdown in the country’s third-largest city.
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