Day 534
July 7, 2026
3 incidents
- Serious Rights Violation Extrajudicial Killing
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo killed in Texas
Officers searching for a different person stop Salgado Araujo's vehicle; he is shot after DHS says he ignored commands and tried to ram an officer (CBS News).
- Serious Rights Violation Extrajudicial Killing
ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Construction Worker Who Was Not the Target, in Houston
On the morning of July 7, 2026, ICE officers in unmarked vehicles stopped a van carrying Salgado Araujo and three other people on their way to a construction site in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood and an officer shot passenger Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, in the abdomen, killing him. DHS later acknowledged that Salgado Araujo was not the person ICE was looking for; officers stopped the van because a man inside 'resembled the target.' DHS says he refused commands and 'weaponized his vehicle'; his family says he had lived in the US for 35 years with no criminal record. None of the four ICE officers wore body cameras. The Harris County Medical Examiner classified the death a homicide, and the Harris County District Attorney is convening a grand jury. In September the Texas Tribune identified the officer who fired as Gregory Feathers.
- Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Military Overreach
Trump Declares Iran Ceasefire 'Over': Nightly US Strikes, Blockade Reimposed, and Troop Deaths Moved Off the War Tally (July 2026)
After Iran attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on July 7–8, 2026, the United States launched strikes on dozens of targets along Iran's southern coast and President Trump, speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, declared the June 'Islamabad Memorandum' ceasefire 'over,' calling Iran's leaders 'scum' and 'sick people.' A nightly US bombing campaign followed, extending to Abadan (home to Iran's oldest oil refinery), Bushehr, Qeshm and Kish islands, bridges and energy infrastructure in Hormozgan, and — according to Iran's atomic energy agency — the Darkhovin nuclear power plant construction site. The naval blockade of Iranian ports was reimposed on July 14. By July 18, Iranian authorities reported at least 50 people killed and more than 500 wounded in US strikes over three weeks; Four US service members were killed in Jordan and Iraq during Iranian retaliation. Days later, the Pentagon's official casualty system removed those four deaths from the Iran war tally. The campaign paused on July 25 to give mediation 'room.' No congressional authorization was sought, and a binding Senate war powers resolution failed 47–49 on July 23.