紛争
ICE捜査官、発砲ではなく虚偽供述で起訴
原語の動画
英語の原文から翻訳されています。
発砲したのは、リオグランデ・バレーを拠点とし、「メトロ・サージ作戦」のためにミネアポリスへ派遣されていたICEの強制送還担当官、クリスチャン・カストロ被告(52)だ。24 この作戦は2025年12月にツインシティーズで始まった大規模な移民取り締まりで、数千人の捜査官が投入され、約4,000人が逮捕された。2 2026年1月14日、アルフレド・アレハンドロ・アルホルナ氏を二世帯住宅まで追跡した後、カストロ被告はアルホルナ氏のルームメイトでベネズエラ国籍のソサ=セリス氏の太ももを撃った。423 その後、連邦捜査官らは近隣で化学剤を使用し、幼い子どもを連れた家族を含む周辺住民が影響を受け、現場での抗議は数時間続いた。12
映像が示した実際の状況
事件の経過
私は可能な限り強い言葉で異議を唱え、全力で戦った。それでも足りなかった。
不明な点
- 解雇された検察官マシュー・エバンズ氏に対する司法省の調査は、結論が公表されていない。
- カストロ被告がテキサス州にとどまる中、停滞しているミネソタ州の発砲事件が公判に至る可能性があるかどうか。
今後の展開
- 連邦虚偽供述事件で命じられた、9月18日のミネアポリスでの出廷。
カストロ被告は出頭し、9月4日にテキサス州マッカレンの連邦裁判所に出廷して無罪を主張、GPS監視装置付きの75,000ドルの無担保保釈で釈放された。916 検察は身柄の拘束を求めず、同被告は9月18日にミネアポリスへ出廷するよう命じられた。69 1月14日の発砲は、当初の公式説明が後に映像と矛盾したメトロ・サージ作戦の事案の少なくとも5件のうちの1件で、この中には1月7日の米国市民レニー・グッドさんと1月24日のアレックス・プレッティさんの射殺事件も含まれる。21 カストロ被告は、同作戦中の行為で連邦訴追された初の連邦移民当局職員であり、起訴された連邦捜査官としては全体で2人目となる。これに先立ち、ヘネピン郡はICE捜査官グレゴリー・ドネル・モーガン・ジュニア被告を、運転者らに銃を向けたとして州の暴行罪で起訴していた。12 政府はカストロ被告を虚偽供述で起訴し、発砲そのものが連邦犯罪だと述べた検察官を解雇した。今後の審理日程は、その選択から逃れることはできない。1213
情報源29
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- HeyDay News
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CBS Newscbsnews.com3
- Unsealed federal indictment details alleged lies by ICE officer charged in Minneapolis shooting - CBS Minnesota
- Minneapolis ICE shooting charges allege agent who lied about attack fired through door with children inside - CBS Minnesota
- Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
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Common Dreamscommondreams.org1
放送時の内容
- An ICE agent was indicted for lying about a shooting he was never charged with. The Justice Department charged him with false statements, and the prosecutor who pushed for a shooting charge was fired. The question now is where federal accountability for the shooting itself lands.
- The agent is Christian Castro, a 52-year-old deportation officer based in the Rio Grande Valley, deployed to Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, the administration's immigration enforcement campaign that began in December 2025 with thousands of agents and roughly 4,000 arrests.
- The January fourteenth shooting sat between two fatal incidents in the surge. State charges came in May, but the federal case never advanced the shooting itself — it landed only on the lies.
- On the evening of January 14, 2026, after a pursuit of Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna to a north Minneapolis duplex, Castro shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the thigh. The bullet passed through his thigh, through a closet, and lodged in the wall of a child's bedroom. Four adults and two young children were inside.
- The unsealed federal indictment charges Castro only with making false statements to FBI investigators. The six counts track his account of that night. He said he was ambushed by three men attacking him with a broom and a snow shovel in a struggle lasting about three minutes, and that he fired from the ground while tussling.
- City traffic-camera video and physical evidence contradicted all of it. The visible confrontation lasted eleven to twelve seconds. Sosa-Celis dropped a plastic snow shovel before contact, and the shovel was never used as a weapon. No one struck Castro with a broom.
- He was standing when he fired through the closing door. The indictment states the contradiction in its own words.
- Before the lies, career prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota had prepared to bring civil-rights charges against Castro — deprivation of rights under color of law, the same statute used in the prosecutions of the officers who killed George Floyd.
- But leadership directed that only the false-statements charges proceed. A prosecutor handling the matter objected in the strongest possible terms, but it wasn't enough. That objection cost him his job after his email became public.
- He remains under a Justice Department investigation for alleged leaking and possible grand jury obstruction. No resolution has been reported.
- Because the federal government declined to charge the shooting, the case for firing the gun runs through the state. State charges were announced on May 18, 2026: four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime. The four assault counts correspond to the four adults just inside the door.
- The state's theory is that Castro, standing alone in the front yard and under no physical threat, fired through the closed front door knowing people had just run inside. Under the state's theory, his federal badge conferred no immunity.
- The federal government charged the lies; the state charged the shooting. The state case is the one that names the gun, and it's stalled by Texas's refusal to send him across the border.
- Texas refused to extradite Castro, and a federal judge in Texas declined to compel it. So the strongest case charging him for the shooting is stuck in Texas while he is in Texas.
- ICE and DHS placed Castro and a second officer on administrative leave. Video showed that sworn testimony by two officers appears to have made untruthful statements. Castro was identified as one of the two. Lying under oath is a serious federal offense.
- Castro turned himself in, appeared in federal court in McAllen, Texas on September 4, entered a not-guilty plea, and was released on a $75,000 unsecured bond with a GPS monitor and an order to appear in Minneapolis on September 18. Prosecutors did not seek to hold him.
- The January 14 shooting is one flashpoint in a surge that produced at least five incidents in which initial official accounts were later contradicted by video, including the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good on January 7 and Alex Pretti on January 24.
- After the January 14 shooting in north Minneapolis, federal agents used chemical munitions in the neighborhood. Bystanders and a family with small children were affected, and protests at the scene lasted for hours, adding to the unrest that followed Good's killing.
- Castro is the first federal immigration officer federally prosecuted for conduct during the surge. He is the second federal agent charged overall; Hennepin County earlier charged ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with state assault for pointing a gun at motorists.
- So the unresolved question stands. The government charged Castro for lying and fired the prosecutor who said the shooting itself was a federal crime. The state case that does charge him for the shooting is stalled because Texas refused to send him to Minnesota. His next federal appearance is September 18 in Minneapolis.
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