INVESTIGATINGGovernmentICE said agents were attacked with a shovel for 3 minutes before shooting. City surveillance video shows a 12-second scuffle. The shovel was dropped before it started. Federal criminal probe opened.
“ICE said agents were attacked with a shovel for 3 minutes before shooting. City surveillance video shows a 12-second scuffle. The shovel was dropped before it started. Federal criminal probe opened.”
ICE agents shot a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. Under oath, they testified he attacked them with a shovel for three minutes, leaving them no choice but to use lethal force. City surveillance footage tells a different story: the entire incident lasted 12 seconds, and the shovel was dropped before the confrontation began.
ICE agents testified — under oath — that they faced a sustained three-minute assault with a dangerous weapon. Three minutes is a long time in a violent confrontation. It paints a picture of agents fighting for their lives against a relentless attacker.
City surveillance cameras captured the incident. The entire confrontation lasted 12 seconds. Not three minutes. Twelve seconds. The shovel that agents claimed was used as a weapon was dropped before any physical contact. The sworn testimony and the video cannot both be true.
A federal criminal investigation has been opened into the agents' conduct — specifically, whether they committed perjury by lying under oath about the circumstances of the shooting. When federal agents lie under oath about killing someone, it's not a policy dispute. It's a crime.
This case exists because city cameras recorded it. How many similar incidents occurred without cameras? How many times have agents testified about "sustained attacks" that lasted seconds? The video didn't create the lie — it exposed one that's likely been told many times before.
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