Phillip M. Brown
Role at the time: Person fired upon by federal immigration agents
Condemned
Statement summary
Brown criticized the agents’ use of weapons and questioned why they faced no repercussions.
“If I would’ve died, how many angles would they have tried to spin on me, to say I was the bad guy? How are they able to draw weapons on U.S. citizens and not have no type of repercussions?”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Homeland Security Claims About Shootings by Federal Agents Unravel in CourtSection on the shooting of Phillip M. Brown and the October 21 preliminary hearing
The report compares Homeland Security’s public descriptions of several shootings with testimony, video and court proceedings.
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His questions reject the shooting as unjustified and condemn the lack of accountability.