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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49183488

The Family has launched a GoFundMe to help with funeral and burial costs, legal expenses, etc.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire declined to seek a city-led investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, saying there cannot be a city investigation while a federal investigation is ongoing.

“We’re monitoring it very carefully,” Whitmire said. "It’s truly a tragedy… But there’s no involvement with HPD.”

Whitmire said it was a tragic, complex issue and his prayers go out to the family and the community that “feels the pain.”

The announcement comes one day after a federal agent shot and killed Araujo, 52, during what authorities called a “targeted operation” in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood. Federal officials said the agent acted in self-defense.

Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Araujo, described him as a construction worker who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years.

“He was in the process of obtaining his work permit through the legal process,” Salgado wrote on social media. “He was on his way to work, picking up his workers. My father did not deserve this.”

  • gAlienLifeform
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    5 days ago

    Related bit of research from a few years ago I found really fascinating, “A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote”

    A study I co-authored with fellow researcher Kevin Morris, published in December in the American Political Science Review, finds that traffic stops by police stops in Hillsborough County reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.

    Our study compared the voter turnout of Hillsborough motorists who were stopped by police shortly before and after each election. Drawing on information about each person’s turnout in past cycles, we found that these stops reduced the likelihood that a stopped individual turned out to vote by 1.8 percentage points on average. The effect held when accounting for characteristics like race, gender, party affiliation, past turnout, and prior traffic stops to improve our comparisons. The discouraging effect of stops was slightly higher in 2014 and 2018.

    These results make clear that the collateral consequences of policing—including worsening outcomes for economic security, educational attainment, and health—also extend to political participation. If the communities who are most frequently subjected to policing are also discouraged from voting as a result, it could create a vicious feedback loop of political withdrawal.

    Why would traffic stops make people less likely to show up to the polls? Past research has already established that the most disruptive forms of criminal legal contact, like arrest and incarceration, discourage people from voting. Our study shows that low-level police contact matters in the same way. If a traffic stop makes a motorist fear that the government will harm them, it can prompt a withdrawal from civic life that political scientists call “strategic retreat.” Motorists might worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into police violence, a more common outcome for Black people in particular. Beyond justified fears of violent victimization, voters might also bristle at the perception of being targeted to raise revenue through excessive ticketing. Accordingly, if incarceration ‘teaches’ would-be voters that their government is an alienating and harmful force in their lives, traffic stops could catalyze a similar form of ‘learning.’

    Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260514053348/https://boltsmag.org/a-police-stop-is-enough-to-make-someone-less-likely-to-vote/