Prosecutors confirm footage of ICE shooting exists, then charge the man it shows with assault.

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I called my insurance man Tuesday morning because I needed a favor, and I want to say up front, it is a two-minute call for him. He reads sworn statements for a living — whose camera was running, whose wasn't, what the paperwork actually says versus what everybody assumes it says. I do it never. So when the story came across about the man ICE shot in Austin, now charged with assault himself, I figured the honest move was to ask somebody who does this every day, because I trust an affidavit about as much as I trust my own reading of a dipstick — which is to say, I check it, then I call the guy who actually knows.

Here's how it got to Tuesday, because it didn't start there. Back on the fourth of the month, federal prosecutors charged an ICE officer named Christian Castro with lying to investigators about a shooting — a different one, up in Minneapolis. Is that the same as lying? I asked my insurance man that too, and he said that's the word for it in plain English, even if the indictment used something longer. Castro was taken into custody on the seventeenth. Three days after that, people in Austin were calling for a transparent investigation into a separate shooting — a man named Wilber Garcés Pérez, shot by an ICE officer during a traffic stop. He was in federal custody by the twenty-first. By the twenty-second he was telling reporters his car had been struck twice before the officer fired, and that same day a federal judge temporarily blocked his deportation. Temporarily — I remember the word because it's the kind of word that makes a thing sound like it's almost finished.…