U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Source: Los Angeles Times
Leaving his home in Ontario to work at a food bank Thursday morning, Carlos Jimenez pulled over to warn a group of federal agents that they should wrap up their stop of a car quickly because school-age children would soon gather there to take the bus, his lawyers said Sunday.
In the following moments, the attorneys said an ICE officer shot Jimenez, a U.S. citizen and father of three, from behind.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, said at the time that Jimenez had “attempted to run officers over by reversing directly at them without stopping” and that the shots were “defensive.”
Jimenez, 25, was charged in federal court with assault on a federal officer. A judge released him on bond Friday.
Lawyers for Jimenez offered a counter narrative. They said that Jimenez reversed because he was afraid, then was unnecessarily shot in the back of his right shoulder, where a bullet remains lodged. The agents’ actions were “unreasonably aggressive” and a violation of their own policies, said attorney Robert Simon.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-02/lawyers-say-ice-shot-us-citizen-from-behind-as-he-stopped-to-warn-them-of-childre
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on TDY when I worked for the USG - during the Clinton Era prior to Newt Gingrich's takeover of the House in 1994, when our government still functioned.
Like the first poster, I thought first of Canada, then remembered our own US Ontario in California. 
...have lived in the area since the 17th century.
