Videos contradict ICE's version of migrant's death; agents fired during Maine operation

Videos have emerged that appear to contradict the official account of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian migrant in Maine. ICE stated that an agent opened fire on July 13 after the man attempted to use his vehicle to ram officers during an attempted deportation. Senator Angus King, citing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, reported that the agent fired after the man "used the vehicle as a weapon."

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He was in a vehicle, he got out in the vehicle, and the term that the secretary used was that he 'used the vehicle as a weapon' and was shot by an ICE agent.

However, footage circulating on social media shows ICE agents running alongside the migrant's car and firing into it, with no apparent risk of being hit by the vehicle. Another video, shared by Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal, shows agents removing the man's body from the car and handcuffing him after he was already deceased. Jayapal also noted reports that agents were not wearing body cameras.

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The blatant disregard for human life is absolutely disgusting. According to reports, there is…

Further complicating the official narrative, a witness named Daniel Boucher described seeing the car "at 90 degrees to the sidewalk" and hearing the driver say, "I tried to stop." Boucher observed the driver with a bloody face and head before an ICE agent approached with a medical bag. The man was the subject of a final deportation order, according to the Maine federal prosecutor's office. The agent involved has been placed on leave. This incident is the second time ICE has used lethal force in a week and is at least the ninth such death during the current administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

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I heard clearly the victim say, ‘I tried to stop’