An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent driving an unmarked SUV mowed down a migrant before making a cruel comment as the victim writhed on the ground in pain.
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victim → drive → pain
Surveillance camera video showed Mario Alberto Morales, 33, pursuing and then striking Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, with his unmarked car on October 10 in Houston.
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Morales → show → Houston
The Harris County District Attorney's Office said Parra Hernandez, a construction worker, was running away during a pursuit through a parking lot.
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Hernandez → say → lot
Parra Hernandez could be heard screaming in pain on the ground after being hit by Morales in body camera footage played by Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare at a press conference last Friday.
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Hernandez → hear → conference
Morales exited the car and told a howling Parra Hernandez: 'Yeah, you got hit with a car, bro.'
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you → exit → car
Parra Hernandez was saying in Spanish that the ICE officer just 'ran over' him as he continued bellowing in agony.
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he → say → agony
Morales turned himself in on Monday after being indicted by a grand jury on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which he has denied.
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he → turn → which
Teare said Parra Hernandez broke his leg and was recovering at a rehabilitation facility while in federal custody.
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Hernandez → say → custody
Video captured ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales, 33, running over Miguel Parra Hernandez in Houston, Texas, on October 10 as the migrant ran away during a pursuit through a parking lot
Parra Hernandez broke his leg and was recovering at a rehabilitation facility while in federal custody, according to Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare
Morales exited his vehicle as Parra Hernandez screamed in pain on the floor and said, 'Yeah, you got hit with a car, bro'
Morales was also heard speaking with another officer after he arrived on the scene in the body camera footage.
'I was coming in and I hit [Parra Hernandez] with a car,' Morales told him.
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Morales → capture → him
Morales made his first appearance in Harris County's 488th District Court on Monday.
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Morales → make → Monday
Judge Matthew Peneguy set his bond at $30,000, which the officer posted.
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officer → set → which
ICE has said that Parra Hernandez ran in front of the vehicle, which Teare said was contradicted by video.
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Teare → say → video
'The evidence we have in this case is as clear as any that I've ever prosecuted or investigated,' Teare said.
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Teare → have → that
Morales's attorney, David Lindenmuth, argued that what happened was an 'accident' and a political smear campaign right ahead of the midterm elections.
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happened → argue → elections
'He's full of s**t,' Lindenmuth previously told the Daily Mail.
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Lindenmuth → tell → Mail
'The DA knows it's an accident.'
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it → know → ?
Lindenmuth also blasted Teare for the timing, claiming the prosecutor had an 'agenda' when it came to the case.
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it → blast → case
'The DA hasn't found a microphone he doesn't want to talk to since this occurred,' Lindenmuth said.
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Lindenmuth → find → microphone
Michael Wynne, who also represents Morales, told the press that Teare's timing was deliberate, as it was the last day of early voting on Friday.
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it → represent → Friday
Wynne claimed the prosecutor had decided the timing in order to 'make a certain news cycle.'
Teare has denied making the case political.
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case → claim → cycle
He is also pushing to take the case to federal court.
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He → push → court
Morales is scheduled to return to court on December 2.
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Morales → schedule → December
He is still employed by ICE although his bond conditions bar him from having firearms, according to Click2Houston.
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conditions → employ → Click2Houston
Parra Hernandez has lived in Harris County for more than 30 years and did not have a deportation order or criminal background, according to Teare.
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Hernandez → live → Teare
He was in a vehicle that ICE tried to stop.
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ICE → try → that
He jumped out and was followed by Morales, who was in a Jeep Cherokee.
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who → jump → Cherokee
The officer's body camera footage that Teare played Friday showed Morales making sharp moves with the steering wheel before the SUV suddenly shakes.
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SUV → play → wheel
In a 911 audio recording where Morales requested an ambulance, Parra Hernandez could still be heard yelling.
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Hernandez → request → ambulance
'He's fine,' Morales told the operator.
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Morales → tell → operator
'He's just complaining of pain.'
Morales turned himself in on Monday.
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Morales → complain → Monday
The ICE officer has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which he has denied
Parra Hernandez told deputies that he believed a police officer was stopping the vehicle he was in, but got scared and fled when the man began putting on a mask.
He repeatedly told deputies that Morales 'threw the car' at him, according to a Harris County Sheriff's Office incident report reviewed by the Associated Press.
Morales told deputies he did not intentionally hit Parra Hernandez.
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he → charge → Hernandez
He acknowledged that he did not brake before hitting him, saying he was trying to avoid another truck in the parking lot.
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he → acknowledge → lot
Body camera video indicated that Morales had two other suspects in custody in his backseat, according to the report.
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Morales → indicate → report
However, the deputy wrote that Morales told them there was no one else inside.
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Morales → write → them
After Parra Hernandez was taken into custody, ICE released a photo of another man, Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, and said he was the target of the operation that day.
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he → take → operation
ICE said he was seen entering a vehicle with Parra Hernandez.
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he → say → Hernandez
Family members of Parra Hernandez said they had never heard of Mendoza-Cervantes.
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they → say → Cervantes
An immigrant rights group in Houston that has been working with the family, FIEL, said Mendoza-Cervantes' daughter told them that her father has been dead since 2017.
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father → work → 2017
Teare's office previously said its investigation did not find that Parra Hernandez and the man ICE identified as Mendoza-Cervantes were in a vehicle together, contrary to the agency's statement.
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ICE → say → statement
Morales had been working as an Enforcement and Removal Operations officer for ICE for a little more than a year, according to Lindenmuth.
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