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“The agent reportedly sustained unknown injuries,” police said,
adding that it was unknown whether the motorist was hurt. “There
is no reason to believe there is any concern for the public’s
safety.”
An email seeking comment from Immigration and Customs
Enforcement was not immediately returned. Photos posted online
showed a masked agent sitting on the ground, leaning against a
vehicle bumper, before being placed on a stretcher.
The encounter occurred on Route 72 in Stafford Township's
Manahawkin community, roughly 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) east of
Philadelphia.
Payton Johnson, who witnessed it, said ICE agents approached a
man in a van.
“They tell him to roll down his window, he’s inching forward,
and you can tell it’s getting tense by his inching forward,”
Johnson told WCAU-TV, adding that the driver “gunned it” and
took off.
There is no universal training standard for law enforcement to
shoot at a moving vehicle. But most police departments and
federal guidance bar shooting unless the driver poses an
imminent threat of deadly force beyond the car itself.
In Senatobia, Mississippi, a child died Sunday when a police
officer responding to a shoplifting call at a Walmart fired at a
moving vehicle. As police tried to stop the vehicle, the driver
almost hit an officer, according to the Mississippi Bureau of
Investigation.
An ICE agent in Minneapolis fatally shot Renee Good, a U.S.
citizen, in January. The government said the agent's safety was
at risk, but video showed Good had turned the front wheels and
was driving away from him after blocking a street with her SUV.
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