Anti-ICE protesters charged into Sen. Susan Collins‘s (R-ME) Maine office on Monday following an officer-involved shooting that killed a Colombian man in his vehicle in Biddeford.
The person was killed during an interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers around 7 a.m. Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin informed him the shooting occurred after the man allegedly drove toward officers.
Recommended Stories
A group of roughly two dozen protesters stormed Collins’s office, chanting “vote her out” before police removed them from the building. Several hundred anti-ICE protesters then made their way through the town’s main run before gathering in a park to continue their protest.
Following the shooting, Collins called for a “full and impartial investigation” into the shooting, adding confirmation that the FBI was investigating. Collins had previously voted to support $70 billion in funding for ICE without reforms to training and operational practices, which was targeted in protesters’ slogans when they entered her office.
Democrat Troy Jackson, who is vying to be former Senate candidate Graham Platner’s replacement in the general election, was in attendance at the protests. The Senate hopeful released a video telling people to gather in Mechanics Park in Biddeford to protest ICE.
The identity of the man shot has not been revealed, though the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition said he was a 26-year-old man who “came to Maine to live and work.”
King held a press conference following the shooting, where he recounted his conversation with Mullin and said ICE targeted the man because he had a final deportation order. King also said Mullin told him body cameras for ICE officers had been widely distributed, but had not yet reached Biddeford.
The incident follows an officer-involved shooting in Houston that killed Salgado Araujo, a native of Mexico who lived in the United States for over 35 years and was not the intended target.
