Susan Collins's Office Rocked By Anti-ICE Protests After Fatal Shooting In Maine
Protesters marched on the office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) after she voted to give ICE another $70 billion, only to have an agent kill one of her constituents in Maine.
Another day, another ICE killing in America.
On Monday morning, an ICE agent shot and killed a Colombian man who was legally authorized to work in the United States.
As has become the norm in these cases, the Trump administration is claiming that the shooting was in self-defense.
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The Portland Press Herald reported:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in Biddeford Monday morning after he allegedly drove “in the direction of the officer” as he tried to flee, according to the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
Spokespeople for ICE and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have not commented on the incident, which occurred just before 7:18 a.m. Monday. Biddeford police confirmed that the incident involved ICE agents and that the police department’s involvement was limited to providing security at the scene.
The video that is available so far does not show a car driving toward ICE agents, but the ICE agents running alongside the car before shots were fired, killing the 26-year-old man in his car.
Typically, in these stories, the administration would issue a denial only to be contradicted by the video evidence, while Republican politicians who keep voting to fund ICE dodge any accountability.
That is not what is happening in Maine.
