Jake Tapper introduced the segment on Tuesday's "The Lead" with a description for the ages: a "Venezuelan gentleman driving DoorDash." That's how CNN framed Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela who was shot by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas on Sunday after what surveillance footage now shows was a high-speed car chase with sirens blaring.

Gentleman. Driving DoorDash. Just a regular Tuesday on CNN.

Tapper brought on attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, who represents Garces Perez, and lobbed softballs for the duration of the interview. No mention of the new video evidence that had already surfaced. No questions about why her client fled from federal agents. No pushback on claims that were falling apart in real time, as reported by MRC.

Lincoln-Goldfinch had spent the previous 48 hours building a narrative. She told reporters her client was "chased, sideswiped, shot in the back of the neck and pulled from his car." She claimed officers in an unmarked vehicle tried to force him off the road. She said there were no lights activated.

Then Austin police released three videos on Tuesday — dashboard camera footage from an off-duty detective who witnessed the initial traffic stop, cellphone video from the same detective, and body-camera footage from the first officer to arrive after the shooting. The surveillance footage showed at least two federal vehicles with sirens blaring pursuing a speeding car driven by Garces Perez. The body-camera footage showed officers assisting him out of the vehicle — not pulling him out.

No apparent damage to Garces Perez's car. No sideswiping.

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement disputing both Garces Perez's account and his attorney's version, stating he made a "dangerous attempt to evade arrest" and that he entered the country without authorization. DHS also pushed back on claims about medical neglect, stating he "has been given some of the best medical care."

Lincoln-Goldfinch adjusted her story after the videos dropped. "I think they rammed into his car, and the car was motionless and they came up on the passenger's side and they shot into the car while he was inside," she told the Austin American-Statesman. Then she added: "Ultimately, we don't know what happened."

From "chased, sideswiped, shot in the back and dragged out" to "ultimately, we don't know what happened" in less than 72 hours.

Tapper had access to the same videos everyone else did on Tuesday. He chose to air the attorney's original narrative without challenge. He chose "gentleman driving DoorDash" over "illegal immigrant who fled from federal agents in a high-speed chase." That's not journalism. That's casting.

U.S. Representative Greg Casar, a Democrat from Texas, visited Garces Perez at the ICE detention center and told reporters: "ICE has been trying to blame all of this on him without releasing any of the video footage, any of the evidence." Casar said this after Austin police had already released three separate videos. The evidence he claimed didn't exist was already public.

The ICE officer who fired the shot was issued a body camera but was not wearing it during the incident, according to two DHS officials who spoke to NBC News. That's a legitimate question worth asking — and Tapper didn't ask it. He was too busy workshopping the word "gentleman."

Fourteen minutes elapsed between the initial traffic stop and the shooting. Investigators still don't have federal dashcam or body-camera footage covering that gap. There are real questions here about what happened in those 14 minutes. But CNN wasn't interested in questions. CNN was interested in a Venezuelan DoorDash driver who got hurt by the mean immigration agents.

The attorney's story collapsed. The congressman's talking point was already debunked by the time he said it. And CNN's anchor called a man who allegedly fled federal agents at high speed a "gentleman" on national television.