Radley Balko

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278 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 28 Jan

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They rushed his car.

He tried to get away and they shot and killed him and claimed that he had tried to run them over.

He was clearly fleeing.

You know, he happened to be an undocumented Mexican immigrant.

And so he didn't, you know, you didn't see the kind of swell of support and sympathy.

But what really struck me was the press release that DHS put out right afterward.

And I've written about so many, you know, police shootings over the years.

And I've had lots of critiques of the way that the police departments, you know, they use what I've come to call the exonerative tense, right?

Which is like,

A gun was fired and a bullet struck a person, you know, not a cop killed someone.

And, you know, you can criticize that, you know, you can criticize the bias in the police investigations, internal affairs.

But at least those press releases over the years have said, we promise a fair, thorough investigation, right?

At least there was some solemnity for the fact that someone lost their life, right?

And

What we've seen from this administration after these killings is just jubilation and joy.

And they describe these – the guy in Chicago, they described him as a criminal illegal alien.

They don't refer to him as a person.

I think they used his name once in the entire press release.

And there's no pretense of –

A fair investigation.

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