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🗞️ Story file #1175

ICE officer indicted in Texas car crash involving immigrant

Oct 30, 1 PM ET to Oct 31, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 30, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 30, 1 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
  3. Oct 30, 10 PM ETpeak: on 28 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 30, 3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 313 AM1428leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 30, 1 PM to Oct 31, 5 AM ET (peak 28), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 30, 3 PM6 PM9 PMOct 313 AMYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 30, 12:01 PM ET: ICE agent indicted for assault with a deadly weapon in Texas car incidentCNNCNNCNN, Oct 30, 12:01 PM ET: Breaking News An ICE officer has been charged after striking a man with a car in HoustonThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: Texas ICE agent indicted for assault after ramming car into man during pursuitWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: Texas grand jury indicts ICE officer who struck pedestrian with vehicleUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: ICE officer indicted by grand jury after striking man with vehicle in HoustonUSA Today, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: ICE officer who struck man with vehicle indicted for aggravated assaultCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: ICE officer indicted in Texas after allegedly hitting man with vehicleCBS News, Oct 30, 5:01 PM ET: ICE officer charged in Texas after allegedly hitting man with vehicleABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: ICE officer who struck man with vehicle during pursuit indicted: DAThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: ICE Officer Has Been Charged After Striking a Man With a Car in HoustonHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 30, 1:01 PM ET: ICE Officer Charged After Striking A Man With A Car In HoustonJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 30, 2:01 PM ET: ICE agent indicted in Texas crash that struck fleeing suspectJust the News, Oct 30, 4:01 PM ET: ICE agent indicted in Texas on charges he intentionally struck migrant in immigration operationThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 30, 2:01 PM ET: JUST IN: Far-Left Houston DA Charges ICE Agent For ‘Ramming’ Mexican Illegal Alien with VehicleThe National DeskThe National DeskThe National Desk, Oct 30, 2:01 PM ET: ICE officer charged after allegedly striking fleeing Houston man with SUVMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 30, 2:01 PM ET: ICE Agent Charged After Allegedly Intentionally Ramming Man with CarPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 30, 3:01 PM ET: An ICE officer is charged with assault for striking a man with a car in HoustonThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 30, 3:01 PM ET: ICE officer indicted in Texas after striking immigrant with vehicleThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 30, 3:01 PM ET: ICE agent charged after ramming unmarked SUV into man in TexasAxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 30, 3:01 PM ET: ICE "surge hire" indicted after hitting man with SUVWSJThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal, Oct 30, 3:01 PM ET: ICE Officer Indicted After Allegedly Striking Fleeing Man With VehicleThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 30, 4:01 PM ET: Texas grand jury indicts ICE officer for aggravated assault after he struck migrant with vehicleStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow News, Oct 30, 4:01 PM ET: ICE agent who hit man with vehicle in Houston charged with second-degree felonyThe New RepublicThe New RepublicThe New Republic, Oct 30, 4:01 PM ET: ICE Agent Charged With Intentionally Hitting Someone With His CarNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 30, 7:01 PM ET: Houston Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent on Charges of Ramming Man in ChaseNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 30, 7:01 PM ET: ICE officer is indicted after striking, injuring immigrant with his vehicle in HoustonNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 30, 7:01 PM ET: Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent in Houston SUV CrashThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 30, 7:01 PM ET: ICE agent charged in Houston with injuring migrant during enforcement effortBBCBBCBBC, Oct 30, 8:01 PM ET: ICE agent charged for hitting Texas immigrant with vehicle during pursuitThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 30, 8:01 PM ET: Absurd: ICE Agent Faces Assault Charge in Texas for Striking Fleeing Illegal ImmigrantReutersReutersReuters, Oct 30, 10:01 PM ET: Grand jury issues indictment in ICE-related crash, Texas officials say📻 radioABC News Update, Oct 31, 2:32 AM ET: story 3 of 4ABC News Update, Oct 31, 1:32 AM ET: the leadNPR News Now, Oct 31, 1:10 AM ET: story 3 of 7ABC News Update, Oct 31, 12:32 AM ET: story 3 of 4NPR News Now, Oct 31, 12:09 AM ET: story 5 of 6ABC News Update, Oct 30, 11:32 PM ET: the leadABC News Update, Oct 30, 10:32 PM ET: story 4 of 6ABC News Update, Oct 30, 9:32 PM ET: story 5 of 6NPR News Now, Oct 30, 9:10 PM ET: story 3 of 8NPR News Now, Oct 30, 8:09 PM ET: story 4 of 9ABC News Update, Oct 30, 7:32 PM ET: the leadABC News Update, Oct 30, 4:32 PM ET: story 2 of 3ABC News Update, Oct 30, 3:32 PM ET: story 2 of 4ABC News Update, Oct 30, 2:32 PM ET: the leadABC News Update, Oct 30, 1:33 PM ET: story 4 of 5
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “Ramming”1
  2. “surge hire”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • CBS News (2 wordings): “ICE officer indicted in Texas after allegedly hitting man with vehicle” → “ICE officer charged in Texas after allegedly hitting man with vehicle”
  • Just the News (2 wordings): “ICE agent indicted in Texas crash that struck fleeing suspect” → “ICE agent indicted in Texas on charges he intentionally struck migrant in immigration operation”
  • USA Today (2 wordings): “ICE officer indicted by grand jury after striking man with vehicle in Houston” → “ICE officer who struck man with vehicle indicted for aggravated assault”
Every outlet's first headline (28), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

📺🤷 No TV captions matched to it.

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

  1. 🫏 ABC News Update 11× · 🥇 led 4
  2. 🫏 NPR News Now 4× · best #3

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

ICETexasHoustonU.S. Attorney's Office

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 ICE vehicle hits man in Houston

  1. Man hospitalized after being hit by ICE vehicle in Houston

    Oct 11, 10 AM ET

  2. Texas prosecutor says ICE agent intentionally hit man with vehicle

    Oct 14, 11 AM ET

  3. ICE officer indicted in Texas car crash involving immigrant (this story)

    Oct 30, 1 PM ET