Man shot by ICE in Austin released from hospital, back in detention, attorney says
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, the 28-year-old Venezuelan who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, has been released from the hospital and is back in federal custody, according to his attorney.
Garces Perez's attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said in a social media post on Tuesday that her client was transferred back to a federal detention facility in Pearsall, Texas, after being treated at a hospital.
Lincoln-Goldfinch said that she spoke with Garces Perez by video Tuesday morning and he told her that since returning to the detention facility, Garces Perez has only been "receiving Tylenol and ibuprofen for pain." He also said he has had his communication privileges revoked, allegedly in retaliation for speaking to reporters by phone during a news conference on Monday, according to Lincoln-Goldfinch.
"Wilber tells me that after he spoke publicly, guards at the Pearsall detention center forcibly took the tablet from his hands, revoked his communication privileges, and moved him out of the infirmary into an isolated room with a flat bed that cannot be adjusted like a medical bed,” she said in a post.
Lincoln-Goldfinch said Garces Perez was transferred to a hospital Monday night after he was unable to move his arms, after which doctors determined that Garces Perez's clavicle was fractured and that he had experienced significant swelling, Lincoln-Goldfinch said.
She said Garces Perez received morphine while at the hospital. She also said she is calling on the detention facility to reinstate his communication privileges.
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