An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Ruben Martinez “intentionally ran over” an agent before being killed by another agent in south Texas last year.
No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.
Across New Orleans, residents had anticipated the operation, particularly immigrants. Some businesses had closed while others posted signs saying, “ICE not welcome here.”
Left-wing group members say they wanted to make a statement about Trump’s deportation campaign. It ended in one of the most violent recent assaults on ICE officers.
The Trump administration claims sites that track immigration officers are putting law enforcement at risk. The creators say they’re helping shield people from a modern-day “Gestapo.”
RowVaughn Wells talks about feeling helpless and frustrated during the trial of three former Memphis police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols, her son.
Body camera audio captured in the aftermath of the arrest of Tyre Nichols in Memphis showed officers laughing with one another as they recount the beating.
By repeatedly playing video footage, sometimes in slow motion, lawyers tried to control the narrative of the police killing of Tyre Nichols, experts said.
Residents of Lexington, Miss., were afraid at first to talk to Justice Dept. investigators about abusive policing. On Thursday night, they celebrated together.
Defense lawyers say ex-Memphis officers acted according to their training when they pummeled Tyre Nichols. The prosecutor said they had no need to use force.
Tyre Nichols was fatally beaten after being stopped by police in Memphis last year. Two officers pleaded guilty to federal charges; three others face trial.
How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.
