Cynthia Santiago condemns the shooting
Attorney for Carlos Jimenez
“Then there was a shot from the side, back passenger window, to the car. Use of deadly force is to be used as a last resort. Coming out to communities with guns drawn is the opposite.”
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Los Angeles Times follow-up reporting presenting the account and legal assessment of Carlos Jimenez’s attorneys Cynthia Santiago and Robert Simon.
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ABC News reports the competing government and defense accounts. Jimenez's lawyers said he was maneuvering around the officers and leaving after warning about arriving schoolchildren; DHS said the officer fired defensive shots while fearing for his life.
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Santiago said Jimenez became afraid after a masked agent drew a gun and shook pepper spray at him.
After the quotation
She later described the episode as horrendous and blamed inadequate training and escalating violence in the community.
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Case context: Was ICE Officer Eusebio Ortiz justified in shooting Carlos Jimenez?
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She explicitly contrasts the shooting with the last-resort standard for deadly force and criticizes the agents’ armed approach.
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Was ICE Officer Eusebio Ortiz justified in shooting Carlos Jimenez?
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