You literally cannot believe anything our government says, whether it’s guidance from the CDC, national security, economic numbers or policing. The latest example of their deception and incompetence via the NY Times:
Almost immediately after an immigration agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis this winter, the federal government cast the injured man as an attempted murderer and the agent as the victim of a brutal beating.
That version of events began unraveling when prosecutors dropped felony charges against the injured man, Julio C. Sosa-Celis, and one of his housemates, Alfredo A. Aljorna, who had fled from immigration agents.
Yet video footage of the shooting, newly obtained by The New York Times, raises questions about why it took weeks for the government’s case to fall apart.
The video contradicts the agent’s claim that three assailants had beaten him with a shovel and broom for roughly three minutes before he opened fire. Instead, the confrontation depicted in the video lasts about 12 seconds and shows two men struggling with the agent. It shows no sustained attack with a shovel.
The federal government had access to that video within hours of the shooting on Jan. 14, the Minneapolis police chief said. Yet prosecutors did not watch the footage, an official said, until nearly three weeks after they filed charges against the two men.
They just lie, relentlessly and aggressively, and don’t even really try to hide it.
In this case they did eventually drop the charges, no doubt because they knew that two agents had lied and would be run out of court if they tried to press them. The victims await word if they might qualify for a program that would grant them a visa to stay in the country because they have cooperated with a law enforcement investigation. Somehow, I doubt that’s very likely.
This was a famous incident that got national attention. But there have been thousands of similar altercations that didn’t involve deadly force, just beatings and torture, which have gone unreported. And it isn’t over. ICE is still rampaging through the streets but they’ve calmed down just enough to evoke boredom by the press as it chased the newest atrocity. The beat goes on.