Casar demands all footage from the Garces Perez shooting
Greg CasarU.S. representative for Texas's 35th congressional district, quoted in a joint congressional release
Casar criticized Mullin's unfulfilled body-camera promises after the Garces Perez shooting and demanded release of all footage from the scene.
“Secretary Mullin keeps making promises while his agents keep shooting people. Secretary Mullin must release every second of footage from that scene, so we can know the truth.”
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Should ICE's use of force in the shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez be condemned or condoned?
On September 20, 2026, an ICE officer shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national working as a DoorDash driver, during an immigration enforcement operation in North Austin, Texas. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center in serious but stable condition and later transferred into ICE custody. Garces Perez says an unmarked SUV struck his vehicle before he realized the people pursuing him were immigration officers, that he asked an agent if he could stop somewhere safer than under a freeway overpass, and that he was shot after the agent refused. On September 29, federal prosecutors charged him with assaulting and resisting a federal officer. In a sworn affidavit, they say he refused commands to get out of his car and drove off, hitting an officer with his side mirror, and that after a brief chase one officer says Garces Perez tried to hit him with the car, and the officer fired. DHS has confirmed the shooting and said Garces Perez was subject to a final removal order. The dispute is whether the use of force against him was justified.
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Pingree's office announces a joint oversight letter concerning the shootings of Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. The linked letter is dated September 29; the release is dated October 1 and supplies no clock time. The representatives' allegations and assessments are attributed statements.
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The release identifies three ICE shootings and says promised body cameras did not record the uses of force. Casar addresses the Austin shooting, which the release places in the members' districts.
After the quotation
The representatives requested written DHS and ICE answers by October 14. The release is dated October 1; its linked letter is dated September 29.
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Why this label?
Casar says Mullin's agents 'keep shooting people' after Garces Perez was shot in the back, and demands all footage. That criticizes the shooting and offers no justification for it.
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U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas
“The complaint alleges and body camera footage shows that after further direction from the officers in Spanish, Garces-Perez abruptly closed his window and drove off, striking one of the ICE ERO officers in the torso with the driver’s side-view mirror. The ICE ERO officers pursued Garces-Perez in their vehicles with their emergency lights and sirens activated. The complaint alleges Garces-Perez led them on a high-speed chase through a commercial and residential area. While one of the officers lost sight of Garces-Perez during the pursuit, the other ICE ERO officer caught up to Garces-Perez, who allegedly attempted to strike the officer with his car, causing the officer to fire his pistol.”Read statement
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