DHS denounces victims of immigration enforcement shootings before facts known
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...This week, and for the fourth time this year, Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officers fatally shot someone on a U.S. street. The initial narrative from the agency checked a familiar box.

The officers acted defensively, said DHS " though other federal agencies withheld comment as investigations commenced. Over the past six months, witnesses and video evidence have painted a fuller, more complex picture of each killing, at times contradicting official claims.

Monday's fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian immigrant, by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Maine, followed the ICE killing of a Mexican man in Texas, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a week earlier. Officers in unmarked cars pursued both men as they drove, though in both cases, a lack of body-camera footage obscures the full facts.

DHS claims the officer shot at Mr. Durán while "fearing for public safety" during an attempted traffic stop.

"I clearly heard the victim say, I tried to stop,'" witness Daniel Boucher told The Associated Press. ...