DA Promises Criminal Probe as ICE Refuses to Name Officer Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

In Texas, dozens of organizations and small businesses in Houston’s East End District will participate in an economic boycott today, demanding justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7. Organizers are intensifying calls for the release of the three key eyewitnesses who remain in an ICE jail in Conroe, Texas, and for the Department of Homeland Security to identify the ICE agents involved in the fatal shooting. One of the eyewitnesses is Salgado’s brother, Victor. This comes as Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare says an independent investigation into the fatal shooting is moving forward. Sean Teare: “The medical examiner ruled Mr. Salgado’s death a homicide. There’s one agency in Harris County, Texas, that’s authorized to investigate and prosecute that, and it’s my office.” www.democracynow.org