ICE changes story and admits detainee died of 'spontaneous use of force'

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By Colleen Deguzman, The Texas Tribune
Published February 20, 2026 9:57 PM ET

Cuban man’s death at El Paso tent camp was result of “spontaneous use of force,” ICE says

by Lomi Kriel and Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune
February 20, 2026

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials this week reported that the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at a detention facility in El Paso was the result of the staff’s “spontaneous use of force” to “prevent him from harming himself.” Officials quietly updated the cause of death after previously declaring last month that the man died of “medical distress.”

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-ice-2675290266/

[struggle4progress]

1. "We were afraid he'd hurt himself so we killed him"

[awesomerwb1]

5. Incredible isn't it

We're wayyyy past Idiocracy.

Imbecilocracy?

[AZ8theist]

9. United States of Nazism, 2.0

[moniss]

2. Those of us on DU of a certain age remember

"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

[stage left]

7. Yep

We were saving it from the Viet Cong

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Their explanation makes no sense

[Bread and Circuses]

4. Translation- battery resulting in murder

[B.See]

6. Is that what they're calling BEATING a man to death

these days?

[Safe as Milk]

8. Donny's Doctrine: If you can punch down, punch all the way down.

Another: If you can't afford a lawyer, you have no power and you have no rights.