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☝️😂 I've watched this so many times...

And then dude burns his hand.... 🔥

Matt Shuham at HuffPost:

The government’s account of what led to the fatal ICE shooting of father and longtime Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is false, according to witnesses who were with Salgado Araujo in his van when the shooting occurred, an attorney who spoke to the men said. “After speaking with these three men that were in the vehicle with Lorenzo, I have no doubt that what these ICE agents are saying is completely false,” the lawyer, Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, said in a video posted to Instagram. “At no point did they ever use the van to ram into the ICE agents, and at no point were these ICE agents’ lives ever in any danger.”

After the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security claimed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot Salgado Araujo in “self-defense” after he “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle” and “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.” ICE and DHS, its parent agency, have a history of lying about people agents shoot. Balderas-Ibarra added: “The ICE agents’ accounts of what happened do not reflect — and are very inconsistent with — the stories, with the recollections, that I got from the three people that were in the vehicle with Lorenzo.” Balderas-Ibarra relayed that after an ICE agent shot Salgado Araujo, the father of three said “ya me mataron” — or, roughly, “now they’ve killed me.” Balderas-Ibarra also shared a handwritten statement from one of the men with The Washington Post. While in ICE custody, José Trinidad Rojas, who was in the vehicle when the shooting occurred, wrote that the DHS statement “is a lie.” “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over,” the statement continued, as quoted by the Post, as “there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra told the Post that the two other witnesses in the vehicle — whom he said he spoke with separately and are being held separately — gave the same story. The other witnesses are Daniel Tirado Pantoja and Salgado Araujo’s brother, Víctor Salgado. “All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” the attorney told the Post. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.” According to the witnesses’ accounts, which Balderas-Ibarra described to the paper, an unmarked vehicle started following Salgado Araujo’s vehicle Tuesday morning, then cut it off in traffic. Salgado Araujo made a U-turn, and the vehicle turned on its police lights. Given construction on the roadway, Salgado Araujo was driving slowly, but at that point ICE vehicles rammed the work vehicle, according to the witnesses.

CK Smith at Salon:

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina lawmaker whose three-decade career in Congress took him from one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican critics to one of the president’s closest allies, died Saturday after what his office described as a “brief and sudden illness.” He was 71. Graham’s office announced his death in a statement early Sunday, saying he died Saturday evening. No cause of death was immediately released beyond describing it as a “brief and sudden illness.” His family asked for privacy and thanked the public for its prayers. The longtime senator had celebrated his 71st birthday just two days earlier, making his death especially unexpected at a time when many of his Senate colleagues remain in office well into their late 70s and 80s. Graham had served in the Senate since 2003 after four terms in the House of Representatives and was campaigning for another six-year term after winning South Carolina’s Republican primary last month. [...] During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Graham was among Trump’s sharpest critics, calling him a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” and warning that nominating him would damage the Republican Party. After Trump won the presidency, however, Graham gradually became one of his closest allies in the Senate, emerging as a frequent defender of Trump’s agenda, judicial nominees and foreign policy priorities. By Trump’s second term, Graham had become one of the president’s most trusted voices on Capitol Hill, particularly on national security issues.

[...] Throughout his career, Graham cultivated a reputation for his focus on issues like immigration reform, national security and criminal justice, including reaching across the aisle for more bipartisanship politics in his earlier years in office. In later years, however, he became one of Trump’s most visible congressional allies, helping shepherd key nominations and serving as one of the administration’s most vocal defenders. Graham’s death leaves South Carolina with a vacant Senate seat and removes one of the Republican Party’s most recognizable and influential voices on foreign policy after more than 30 years in Congress. Under South Carolina law, the vacancy will be filled through the state’s succession process until a special election can be held.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey “Lady G” Graham (R-SC) has died at 71 due to sudden illness.