Mary Trump - ICE Murders
This week, protesters gathered outside the office of Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, after an ICE agent shot and killed a twenty-six-year-old Colombian man. The circumstances surrounding the shooting remain deeply contested because federal officials themselves cannot seem to agree on what happened.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed officers had been conducting surveillance at the home of someone believed to be in the country illegally and subject to a final removal order. According to DHS, when officers attempted to stop a vehicle leaving the property, the driver tried to flee and an ICE agent, “fearing for public safety,” opened fire.
Senator Angus King, however, said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin gave him a different explanation entirely. According to King, Mullin claimed the driver attempted to use his vehicle as a weapon against ICE officers. King also revealed something equally disturbing: the arrest warrant officers were attempting to serve was not even for the man they ultimately killed.
According to the Associated Press, the officers involved were not wearing body cameras, leaving enormous questions unanswered and perhaps forever unanswerable. It remains unclear how close the agents actually were to the vehicle, whether they ordered the driver to stop, or why ICE believed he posed a threat to the public.
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