Venezuelan man shot by ICE officer in Texas is charged with assault

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lista 1 de 4 Oficial da ICE atira e machuca homem em Austin, Texas, dizem autoridades.

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Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, appeared in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, where he was charged with assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer. He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

The charge stems from a September 20 encounter that began while Garces Perez was making a DoorDash food delivery near a shopping centre in Austin, the Texas state capital.

A federal complaint filed on Monday says immigration officers noticed that Garces Perez’s car had its emergency lights flashing, and they ran a database check. They found it was registered to Garces Perez, who was subject to a final order of removal from the US.

Quando os oficiais se aproximaram, Garces Perez entregou sua carteira de motorista através de uma janela parcialmente aberta, mas não saiu do carro, diz a denúncia.

He asked the officers to wait until his wife could arrive to retrieve the vehicle.

Os documentos do tribunal descrevem a troca até aquele ponto como “agradável e não agressiva”.

About a minute later, however, court documents say Garces Perez “abruptly” closed his window and drove off, striking one of the officers in the torso with his driver’s side mirror.

That officer chased Garces Perez in his own vehicle and caught up with him a short time later. In the complaint, the officer alleges that Garces Perez then tried to drive into him, prompting him to open fire.

There is no publicly available footage showing the events described in the complaint, including the shooting.

Vídeos, no entanto, circulam online mostrando o pós-ataque, com Garces Perez ferido em seu carro.

The complaint relies on unreleased body-camera footage from one of the two ICE officers who stopped Garces Perez.

O segundo policial não estava usando uma câmera corporal, de acordo com a declaração. Esse policial afirma que foi atingido pelo espelho lateral de Garces Perez e, posteriormente, o atirou.

Garces Perez, however, gave federal investigators a different account of the moments immediately before he was shot.

He told investigators that, after a brief chase, a law enforcement SUV struck his car, causing it to spin around, according to the affidavit. He said the officer then opened fire, shooting him in the back.

Garces Perez has been held in a detention facility in south Texas since the shooting.

His lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said on Sunday the bullet was still lodged in his body and that he has a fractured clavicle. In a social media post, Lincoln-Goldfinch explained that his supporters were worried he could develop sepsis or suffer permanent damage if he didn’t undergo surgery soon.

O Department of Homeland Security argumentou, no entanto, que Garces Perez está recebendo cuidados médicos adequados.

Garces Perez’s legal team is also seeking to stop his removal from the US.

Nacional venezuelano entrou nos EUA em 2024 através do CBP One, um programa online expandido sob o ex‑presidente Joe Biden para permitir que requerentes de asilo façam agendamentos com autoridades de imigração na fronteira EUA‑México.

Trump ended the programme on his first day back in office, accusing the app of contributing to an immigration crisis in the US. His administration has since relaunched CBP One as CBP Home, a self-deportation portal.

Lincoln-Goldfinch has said Garces Perez was legally seeking asylum in the US and had a valid work permit. She has asserted that he was ordered to be deported after missing an immigration court hearing because the notice had been sent to an old address.

Garces Perez is due back before a federal immigration judge on Wednesday for a separate hearing on whether he can remain in the country.

The case comes amid a surge in immigration enforcement during Trump’s second term, with ICE reporting more than 50,000 arrests in both July and August.

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