Newsrooms, I am begging you to stop letting Houston Mayor
@whitmire_john lie to the public. Stop circulating clips like this one below where he is lying, unless you are also factchecking him, which the Houston Chronicle did very well here:
ALT Legal experts, former police chiefs and former prosecutors all agree that Houston police and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office unquestionably have the authority to conduct their own investigation into Salgado’s death. In past fatal shootings caused by federal officials, like one involving an FBI agent in 2018, Houston police conducted a parallel investigation and Harris County prosecutors made their own charging decisions.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said that even though city leaders have expressed a desire for the city to conduct an independent investigation into the deadly shooting of a Mexican national by an ICE officer in Houston, they can't conduct an independent investigation.