{"id":62876,"date":"2026-01-23T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62876"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:15:22","slug":"ms-now-federal-immigration-agents-keep-shooting-at-drivers-we-tracked-15-cases-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62876","title":{"rendered":"MS.now: Federal immigration agents keep shooting at drivers. We tracked 15 cases since July."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MS.now: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/federal-agents-shoot-drivers-weaponized-vehicle?cid=eml_mda_20260123&amp;user_email=b3145a7bce6ccab5b85e16b491b7cfe8977b3f7483b1839eeb4c1214b780a17c\">Federal immigration agents keep shooting at drivers. We tracked 15 cases since July.<\/a> By David Noriega &amp; Kay Guerrero (\u201cAfter each shooting, federal agencies claimed the drivers tried to ram agents with their vehicles. But the claim often falls apart under scrutiny.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Last August, federal immigration agents in unmarked cars pulled over Francisco Longoria as he drove through a majority Hispanic neighborhood in San Bernardino, California, with his teenage son in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cellphone and surveillance videos show masked agents surrounding the pickup truck, at least one with a gun drawn. When Longoria refused to roll down his window, one agent smashed the driver-side glass and reached inside. That\u2019s when Longoria hit the gas and fled, and an agent fired multiple shots at the passenger side of his truck. Longoria and his son were not injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same day, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement asserting that Longoria \u201cdrove his truck at the officers and struck two CBP [Customs and Border Protection] officers with his vehicle,\u201d and that an officer fired his gun \u201cin self-defense.\u201d But video recordings from inside the truck and a nearby business appear to show no agents or vehicles in Longoria\u2019s path as he drove away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Longoria was charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. Weeks later, during a court hearing, prosecutors acknowledged they couldn\u2019t identify a lawful basis for the stop and had no evidence that any officers were injured. The Department of Justice dropped the case less than a month after filing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS.now: Federal immigration agents keep shooting at drivers. We tracked 15 cases since July. By David Noriega &amp; Kay Guerrero (\u201cAfter each shooting, federal agencies claimed the drivers tried to ram agents with their vehicles. But the claim often falls &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62876\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-immigration-arrests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62877,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62876\/revisions\/62877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}