“I’m very angry about this,” Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, a Democrat, said in a press conference about the shooting, adding that local police were not involved in the incident, which happened during a traffic stop.
Watson said he was not surprised by ICE’s involvement, given “the nature of ICE and the way ICE is doing its business these days.”
Watson and other Texas Democrats have also called for independent investigations into the incident. James Talarico, who’s campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat, said he was “closely following” the reports and urged a probe that released available footage of the shooting. “Previous incidents have shown that this agency cannot be trusted to report all the facts,” Talarico said in a statement released to the media.
The District Attorney’s Office in Travis County, which includes Austin, requested to partner with city police in the investigation and for the federal government to cooperate in providing access to evidence. It added: “As has occurred in other jurisdictions, it is possible that this incident included violations of state law.”
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