“It shouldn’t take 11 months and a FOIA lawsuit to learn that the government killed someone,” said a watchdog.

Demands for accountability are mounting after internal records revealed this week that an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fatally shot Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old US citizen, almost a year ago in South Padre Island, Texas. “While Martinez’s death was reported in local media at the time, the reports did not identify HSI…

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