A woman speaks out after ICE shot her and detained her partner

Andriani Mendoza Camacho says she was there the night of Jan. 14 when an ICE agent shot her partner In the leg in north Minneapolis. In an interview with MPR News, she questioned the federal government’s account of what happened.

Federal authorities accuse her accomplice, Julio Sosa Celis, and another man, Alfredo Aljorna, of assaulting an ICE officer that night. The Justice Department alleged in a lawsuit that they used a broom to hit the officer.

“They say — it was in the news, it was everywhere — that my partner attacked an officer with a shovel and a broom, but I’m a witness, I saw the whole thing, and my partner never grabbed anything to hit him or anything like that,” Mendoza Camacho said. He told MPR News in an interview.

“He just tried to keep them apart so they could get into the house,” she said.

Eventually, Aljorna was able to break free from the client and he and Sosa Celis were able to enter the home, according to Mendoza Camacho. Sosa-Celis closed the door and shortly after heard a gunshot.

She said the ICE agent fired through the front door and the bullet struck Sosa-Celise in the right thigh.

Mendoza Camacho returned to her son’s home on January 28. She said she now wants to speak with Aljorna’s accomplice, who remains in Texas, and the men in ICE custody.

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— Regina Medina, MPR News