Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence - NBC News
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare alleges that an ICE officer intentionally struck an immigrant with a vehicle during an immigration stop. The DA claims federal authorities are obstructing the investigation and may have allowed the destruction of critical evidence.
Why it matters
This case highlights significant tensions between local law enforcement and federal immigration agencies regarding accountability and the use of force.
HOUSTON — Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday. “This was an intentional striking and running over of the person by the vehicle, and in that case, that is an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas,” Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare told NBC News. Teare said the federal government is not cooperating with the investigation conducted by his office and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. He also said ICE may have allowed the erasure of critical data in the vehicle involved in striking Parra, who was on foot. Teare said that in his seven years as a Harris County vehicular crimes division chief, he has reviewed video from a number of other auto-pedestrian collision cases.
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