{"id":21587,"date":"2026-02-22T01:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21587"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:23:22","slug":"texas-man-was-fatally-shot-by-a-federal-immigration-agent-last-year-during-a-stop-new-records-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21587","title":{"rendered":"Texas man was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;As in the Good case, experts in police training and tactics questioned why a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ice-minneapolis-police-rules-shooting-moving-vehicle-e8af318ca5253b43a893b4c76e6f6a03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal officer apparently positioned himself<\/a>&nbsp;in front of Martinez\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t stand in front of the car, you don\u2019t put yourself in harm\u2019s way,\u201d said Geoffrey Alpert, a police use-of-force expert at the University of South Carolina. He added that there\u2019s never a scenario where it\u2019s justified, \u201cbecause you don\u2019t know whether this person is going to flee, and if he flees, you could be dead.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/20\/us\/texas-ruben-ray-martinez-shooting\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/20\/us\/texas-ruben-ray-martinez-shooting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As in the Good case, experts in police training and tactics questioned why a federal officer apparently positioned himself in front of Martinez\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t stand in front of the car, you don\u2019t put yourself in harm\u2019s way,\u201d said Geoffrey Alpert, a police use-of-force expert at the University of South Carolina. He added that there\u2019s never a scenario where it\u2019s justified, \u201cbecause you don\u2019t know whether this person is going to flee, and if he flees, you could be dead.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/20\/us\/texas-ruben-ray-martinez-shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[829,53,2108,838,221,26,493,25,188,1290,21,170],"class_list":["post-21587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-accountability","tag-deaths","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-killed","tag-shooting","tag-texas","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21588,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21587\/revisions\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}