Ice Out of Control! What Can One Do??
Illustration by Shoshana Schultz/The New York Times By Radley Balko Mr. Balko is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and the criminal justice newsletter The Watch In the span of a week, federal immigration enforcement agents took the lives of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian man shot in Maine, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man gunned down in Houston. The Trump administration’s response to these shootings has so far mirrored its response to the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis and Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago, and a dizzying parade of shootings, beatings and abuse by immigration officers: defiance, deflection and utter indifference to the humanity of the victims. We’re still learning the details of Mr. Guerrero’s death, but after Mr. Salgado Araujo’s, the Department of Homeland Security put out statements that seemed to be contradicted by both vid...
