The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing questions from lawmakers over its account of the shooting of a U.S. citizen in Chicago after a criminal complaint filed against the victim differed from its initial description of events.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy , a Democrat representing Connecticut, has written to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem asking for her to correct the public record and release all bodycam footage of the incident, claiming that "the evidence appears to contradict" the official account.

"As you know, when the government misrepresents or lies about events involving the safety and wellbeing of federal law enforcement, it erodes public trust, making their jobs much harder," he said in the letter .

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