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Sammie Seamon

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Sammie Seamon

    ICE Accuses Wilber Rafael Garces Perez of Hitting Agent With Side Mirror, Files Assault Charge • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)

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    Ten days after being shot in the back by a still-unidentified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez still has not had surgery to remove the bullet from his body and is still suffering from “a lot of pain,” one of his attorneys, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said on social media Wednesday morning, Sept. 30. “He is still in detention. It’s been one week since he was shot, he still has the bullet in his body,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said. “He’s still in a lot of pain. He

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Sammie Seamon, Brant Bingamon

    State Troopers Arrest City Council Candidate for ICE Protest • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)

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    Misael Ramos, a candidate for Austin City Council’s District 1, was arrested this morning, Sept. 26, by Texas Department of Public Safety officers on misdemeanor riot charges connected to Ramos’ participation in the protest against ICE’s shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in North Austin on Sunday, Sept. 20. According to Ramos’ campaign manager, Jeffrey Clemmons, multiple state troopers approached Ramos as he walked his dog around 8:50am and took him into custody. He was booked into the Trav

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Sammie Seamon

    ICE Opens Fire • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)

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    On Sunday morning, Sept. 20, Elizdar wanted her husband, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, to stay home with her. But instead, he left to work, to deliver food orders for DoorDash. At 12:56pm, Austin-Travis County EMS received notice of a shooting from the Austin Police Department, ATCEMS Chief Rob Luckritz said on Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, Garces Perez was suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper back. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent had shot the 28-year-old in North

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Sammie Seamon

    An Early-Career Reporter’s Thoughts on AI and Journalism • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)

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    To ponder the injection of artificial intelligence into journalism is not a source of joy for this local reporter. When ChatGPT was released, I basically ignored it. To this day, I try my best to pretend generative AI doesn’t exist – until of course, I try to Google anything, and it slips past my self-imposed blinders. Or until I’m looking up something related to my previous reporting, and an AI-generated summary of my own article appears at the top of the page. I think local journalism is a rel

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Sammie Seamon

    Future of Texans’ Access to Abortion Pills Uncertain • The Austin Chronicle (opens the original)

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    The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard a lawsuit last Wednesday, Sept. 9, that threatens patient access to mifepristone, a pill widely used to treat miscarriages and in medication abortions in combination with misoprostol, in Texas and every state in the country. Louisiana’s attorney, Jorge Aguiñaga, argued on behalf of the state against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and two drug manufacturers that mifepristone should be restricted to in-person pickup by patients at a hospital or me

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