Christian Castro, who had been charged with assault in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, was taken into custody Friday morning.

  • Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
    32·
    4 hours ago

    Frankly I’m surprised that Texas law enforcement cooperated, least of all the Rangers. Doing so could have easily shut the whole case down, Minnesota cops are not going to run a snatch and grab in Texas under the noses of Texas cops.

    Guess they’re either not ready for shit to get real yet, or they’re just not willing to go that far for one mook.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      17·
      4 hours ago

      Forget the Rangers helping. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General apparently helped. They’re the ones who are supposed to investigate the DHS on stuff, but I’m pretty sure they’re captured.

      investigators from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General and from the Texas Rangers had helped take Mr. Castro into custody.

      It feels like this guy is in trouble for being caught an a lie to his superiors, not because shooting civilians is a problem. And the DHS will probably still want him to walk free, they’re just willing to make him the sacrificial case to argue federal supremacy with rather than the agents that executed two unarmed citizens.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      The ICE agents deployed to Minnesota weren’t necessarily residents of Minnesota. It could be that Texas is the guy’s home state, although I can’t find a source that says where he’s from.

      (DDG’s AI hallucinated that he was from Florida, but the source it tried to cite didn’t actually say that.)

      It could also be that he fled there hoping some asshole like Ken Paxton would give him sanctuary, or he could’ve been trying to flee to Mexico, of course. If he isn’t from Texas the optics don’t look good…

  • BigMacHole@thelemmy.club
    62·
    4 hours ago

    This is SOCIALISM! ALL this Brave Patriot was doing was KIDNAPPING Children in Schools, RAPING people in Special Prisons and ASSAULTING American Citizens!

    -Christians!