Patty Murray
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Washington and vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee
Statement summary
Sen. Patty Murray said in a video statement that ICE has provided no evidence for its claim that the officer fired in self-defense, and compared it to earlier shootings in which she said video contradicted DHS's account.
“Now here is ICE’s version: they say Lorenzo ‘weaponized his vehicle,’ so an agent fired in self-defense. Of course, ICE has provided no evidence to back up its claims. And we know ICE lies. How? That is almost word-for-word what DHS said after a federal agent shot Carlitos Parias in Los Angeles—right up until the body cam footage showed the agent’s gun went off while officers were smashing in his windows, and a judge threw the whole case out. It is the same story they told about Marimar Martinez in Chicago—until the video showed the agent was the one doing the ramming.”
Press release from Sen. Patty Murray's office, dated July 10, 2026, that reproduces the remarks from her video statement on the July 7 ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case asks whether the ICE officer was justified in fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Murray said ICE has given no evidence for its self-defense account, said ICE lies, and compared it to earlier shootings where she said video contradicted DHS. She also demanded an independent investigation and the release of all footage. That rejects ICE's justification and criticizes its conduct, so we labeled it Condemned.