When immigration agents manhandle or shoot someone, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) always has a ready explanation. If that person was carrying a holstered handgun, he was "brandishing" the weapon, making it clear that he "wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement." If that person was driving a car, she was engaged in "domestic terrorism" because she "weaponized her vehicle to conduct an act of violence against a law enforcement officer and the public." If that person was a gardener, he weaponized his weed trimmer.
In the case of Julio C. Sosa-Celis, an unauthorized U.S. resident from Venezuela who was shot in the leg by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on January 14, the official story was similar. The DHS claimed Sosa-Celis "violently" assaulted the agent, who simultaneously was "ambushed and attacked" by two other Venezuelan nationals. Those men allegedly "came out of a nearby apartment" and "attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle." The agent "was ambushed and attacked by three individuals who beat him with snow shovels and the handles of brooms," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in the same press release, multiplying the weaponized implements. "Fearing for his life, the officer fired a defensive shot" in response to "an attempted murder."
