ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston last week, but he wasn't the person agents were looking for — they were searching for a different man and did not clearly identify themselves before opening fire. Jamil Smith argues this exposes a fundamental asymmetry: the government concealed its identity but still expected an unidentified, frightened civilian to instantly recognize armed federal agents, and only ICE was permitted to make a mistake. The incident is still subject to competing accounts with limited apparent video evidence, making credibility claims about agency actions difficult to independently verify at this stage.