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John Whitmire is the Mayor of Houston, Texas, sworn in on January 2, 2024. He served in the Texas Legislature for about five decades, first as a state representative for 10 years and then as a state senator for 40, and chaired the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said that, of the many investigations and oversight reviews of police action he had been involved in over 30 years as chair of the Texas Senate's criminal justice committee, none was more egregious than the one ICE brought to Houston on the morning of the shooting.
“None are more egregious than the one that ICE brought to Houston Tuesday morning.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Houston mayor vows local investigation into ICE shooting but says feds aren’t sharing information · The Texas TribuneDirect quotation in the paragraph after the one describing Whitmire's criticism of ICE's lack of recording equipment (second half of the article)
Why we used this label
The case asks whether ICE was justified in fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Whitmire compared the incident with police actions he had investigated and reviewed during 30 years chairing the Texas Senate's criminal justice committee and said none was more egregious than what ICE brought to Houston that Tuesday morning. That expressly criticizes the conduct under scrutiny, so we labeled it Condemned.
ICE says an officer shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in self-defense after he used his van as a weapon. Passenger witnesses dispute the claimed threat, and a Harris County grand jury is reviewing the shooting.
