ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver and Jailed Him With the Bullet in His Spine
Getting shot during a routine delivery is a nightmare, but getting hauled out of the emergency room straight into federal lockup before doctors can safely extract the slug is a whole new level of dark bureaucracy.
A 28-year-old delivery driver was out delivering meals in Austin when federal agents boxed in his car and fired straight through his rear window. Officials haven't bothered to explain why they pulled the trigger in the first place.
Doctors at the hospital opted to leave the bullet lodged inside his body because it was resting dangerously close to his spine. But instead of letting him heal, agents reportedly leaned hard on hospital staff to rush his discharge, carting Wilber Rafael Garces Perez directly off to a detention facility without pain meds, leaving him to sleep on the floor.
Federal authorities are now rushing to deport the very man their officers shot before any full inquiry takes place.
Legal advocates are pointing out the absurd conflict of interest: quietly shipping the star victim and key eyewitness out of the country is certainly one way to resolve an open use-of-force investigation.
Deporting the primary witness before the bullet in his back even has time to scar over remains an undeniably expedient method for handling internal affairs.
Source: NBC News
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