ICE Officer Shoots Wilber Perez

What happened

Austin police released body camera footage showing officers helping 28-year-old Venezuelan delivery driver Wilber Rafael Garces Perez out of his vehicle after an ICE officer shot him during an immigration-enforcement stop. The officer who fired was reportedly not wearing a body camera, despite DHS saying ICE officers would have them by the end of September. Authorities said Garces Perez had a final deportation order, while his lawyer said the order followed a missed hearing notice sent to an old address. His lawyer said an ICE SUV chased and sideswiped him; ICE said he evaded a targeted stop. Garces Perez remains detained while questions about his condition and the shooting continue.

How each side covered it

From the left

Only one left-leaning outlet we track covered this: MS NOW, under the headline “Tuesday’s Mini-Report, 9.22.26”.

From the right

Right-leaning outlets centered Garces Perez’s immigration status and treated the encounter as an ICE arrest or pursuit, not primarily as a police-accountability case. Fox News highlighted footage it said contradicted claims about how officers removed him from the vehicle. The Gateway Pundit emphasized confrontation after the shooting, casting the response as left-wing hostility toward police and federal immigration agents.

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