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The federal immigration officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was not using a body camera during the Sunday incident, according to news reports. Another ICE officer involved in Garces Perez’s arrest did use his body camera, but its footage didn’t capture the shooting, according to NBC News. “You need to answer why your agents are not turning their body cams on,” Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, the injured man’s attorney, told DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin in a Tuesday post on X . “Release the footage immediately!” The reports came amid heightened focus on the availability of such devices for ICE officers, following the lack of body-cam footage in the recent fatal shootings of immigrants like that of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 7. Disclosure: DoorDash has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune within the past five years.
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