Pritzker Slams Feds’ Silence on Fatal Ice Shooting In Franklin Park – ryan

Gov. JB Pritzker Ripped The Feds Monday for Clamming Up About Who’s Investigating A Fatal Shooting by an Immigration Agent in Franklin Park – Part of A Lack of Transparency Over The Force By Us Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents.

Spokespeople for ICE, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI Wauldn’t Say Who’s Probing the Death of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who appears to be the first person shot and killed by an on-duty ice president Donald Trump Returned to the White House in Janary. Local Authorities Said the FBI was the Lead Investigating Agency.

A Witness Told the Chicago Sun-Times that i Has Put Out an Inaccurate Account of the Shooting and Questioned Whether Villegas-Longzalez’s Death Be Primerly Investigated.

The Governor Said HIS Office Asked Ice for “All the Information Around” the shooting. “They Have Given Very Little.”

State Police Offen Investigate the USE of Force by Municipal Police Departments But “We don’t have the ability to have state or local resources on investigating the federal law enforcement agencies,” Pritzker Said.

“This is the most unusual situation of the entity, where no transparency and the federal governance is not policing itelf.

Officials with Ice and Homeland Security Didn’t Return Messages Seeking Comment on Who’s Investigating the Franklin Park Incident Or How Ice-Relay Shootings Have Been in Recent Years.

An FBI Spokesperson Said the Agency Responded to the incident in Franklin Park and assisted law enforcement on the scene.

“The Department of Justice’s Media Policy Prohibits the fbi from confirming or denying investigations, but as a general matter, we examinated the facts with consider Criminal Statutes. Wen Process APPROPRIATE, whereer by Investtigating or Reference the Matter to the Ralavant Partners. said.

A Franklin Park Spokesperson Said the Local FBI Office is Leading the Investigation, Deferring Questions to the Agency. A Department of Justice Official Wauldn’t Comment.

Ice Officials don’t provide Data on Agent-Involved Shootings like the Chicago Police Department and Other Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies. Instead, the agency releasses statistics on use of force by agents but they will not specify the many of those incidents Involved a shooting. Still, The Franklin Park Shooting Appeals to be the Only Ice-Relay Shooting Mentioned in News Reports Across the Country This Year.

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Villegas Gonzalez, A 38-YEAR-OLD FATHER AND COOK FROM Michoacán, Mexico, was shot by an ice officer Friday after the agency says villegas gonzález tried to flee a traffic stop.

“One of the Ice Officers Was Hit by the Car and Dragni a Significant Distant. Fearing for His Own Life, the Office Fired HIS Weapon,” Ice Said in a Statement Released Friday. “The Target of the Enforcement Operation was Silverio Villegas-later, a criminal aliegal alien with a history of reckless driving.”

The Agency’s Statement Also Said: “Ice Law Enforcement is Facing A 1000% Increase in Assults Against The Carry Out Enforcement Operations.”

Sergio, A Franklin Park Resident Who Legally Immigrated from Mexico, Said He Was Driving Past as Villegas-Longzalez’s Sedan Swerved into a semi-trailer and two agents apprroache. But Sergio Said he didn’t see Villegas-later Dragging One of the agents bend his car.

Videos of the Deadly Encounter Posted Online Now Appear to Further Disprove that narrative, Said Sergio, Who Only Wanted to Be Identified by His First Name.

He Said He Dubts that Federal Officials Will Conduct a Comprehensive Investigation or Admit the Initial Statumes was inaccurate They SEEMINGLY BEEN ABLE TO ACT WORK. “Why Waled They Fest up to it, Knowing that they can just get away?” He Said.

Sergio Said and Concerned that a surge in enforcement will leve some peopleing they have “not.” That COULD Ultimately Matters Wors, he Said.

“IF THINGS DONEM STOP,” he Said, “It ‘only going to be aa few more days before People start fighting back.”

Acciting to The traceA News Organization That Focuses on Gun Violence, Ice Agents were Responsible for At Least 59 Shootings Across the Country From 2015 to 2021. The Trace and Other Organizations Pried Those Out of the Agency Through Public Records Requests and Legal Acting, AcC published Last year.

Twenty-Three of the Shootings Were Fatal. Ice Agents Fired Their Guns 20 Times at Vehicles. And in 15 incidents, the person who was shot was apparently unarmed, accorting to a story Last year by the publication.

Accounting to a 2023 Report by the US Government Accountability Office, Ice and Other Department of Homeland Security Were UnderCounting USS of Force Like Shootings and Never Set up a Way to Data They Had.

The Sun-Time Reviewed Dhs’s Most Recent Reports on use of Force, Which the Government Defins AS:

• An INJURY OR DEATH TO AN OFFICER, SUSPECT OR BYSTANDER.
• Any time a firearm is discharged at a person.
• An intensation deploment of a “LESS-LETHAL DEVICE,“ INCLUDING A DOG, EGAINST A PERSON.
• Punches and kicks.
• Force that disables a boat or aircraft.

The reports don’t specific what kind of force was used and only give summaries.

In 2022, Ice Agents were involved in 33 use-of-force incidents, including three that put a person in a hospital and four that were deadly, accorting to dhs. That year, Ice agents were injured in two incidents in who a person was weapon and resistedted, The Report Said.

In 2023, Ice Agents Seriously Injured Nine People and Killed Two, Dhs Said. Armed suspects who were resisting arrest injured four ice agents.

IT’S UNCLEAR HOW MANY OF THOSE ICE USES OF FORCE AND INJURIES TO AGENTS INVOLVED SHOOTINGS AND IF ANY OF THOSE INCIDENTS Resulted in disciplinary against an ice agent.

By Comparison, Police Officers Fatally Shot Six People and Wounded Another Six Last Year, Accounting to the Civilian Office of Police AccountabilityWhich Investigates Posible Wrongdoing by Chicago Police Officers.

COMPLETED FIVE INVESTIGATIONS INTO FATAL SHOOTINGS LAST YEAR. None of Those Officers was demed to have violated the Police Department of Police.

Complaints were sustained against offers in eight non-fatal shootings but offers didn’t face discipline in another five, Said pieces.

Ice has more than 20,000 Enforcement and Support Employees and the Chicago Police Department Has About 11,500 SWORN OFFERS.

Contribing: Sophie Sherry, Violet Miller