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All of the witnesses to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo have reportedly said that the slain 52-year-old father never tried to ram immigration agents’ car as officials have claimed.

Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, an attorney for the three men who were in the car with Salgado Araujo, has said that they have all separately disputed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) account of the killing, per reporting by The Washington Post, which reviewed the witnesses’ written and oral accounts.

Shortly after the killing on Tuesday, DHS claimed that the ICE agent who killed Salgado Araujo acted in “self-defense.” Salgado Araujo, the department claimed, “attempted to evade arrest” and “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.”

Witnesses in the car with the Mexican immigrant say that this account is patently false, and that at no point during the encounter was there ever an ICE agent standing in front of the vehicle.

“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, one of the witnesses, in a testimony, per the Post. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

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All three of the men in the vehicle with Salgado Araujo, who were on their way to........

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