АНУ-ын Мэйн мужид холбооны цагаачлалын албаны ажилтнууд автомашинтай хүнийг буудаж хөнөөсөн хэрэг гарсан талаар албаны эх сурвалж болон гэрчүүд мэдээллээ.
Даваа гарагт Мэйн мужийн Төлөөлөгчдийн танхимын дарга Райан Фектогийн мэдэгдснээр, Портленд хотоос өмнө зүгт 15 милийн зайд орших Биддефорд хотод уг хэрэг гарч, АНУ-ын Цагаачлал, гаалийн алба (ICE) холбогдсон байна. Тус мужийн Цагдаагийн газар болон Олон нийтийн аюулгүй байдлын газар хэргийн газарт ажиллаж байгаа бөгөөд Холбооны мөрдөх товчоо (FBI) хэргийг мөрдөн шалгах төлөвтэй байна.
Гэрчүүдийн мэдээлснээр, ногоон өнгийн хантааз бүхий ICE-ийн ажилтнууд тэмдэглэгээгүй автомашинаар ирж, жолоочийн эсрэг хүч хэрэглэжээ. Тухайн үед жолооч ажилтныг дайрахыг завдсан гэх шалтгаанаар ажилтан галт зэвсэг хэрэглэж, дөрвөн удаа буудсан байна. Хэргийн газрын зураг дүрсээс үзэхэд, цагдаагийн тэмдэглэгээтэй, тэмдэглэгээгүй цагаан өнгийн SUV автомашин цагаан өнгийн суудлын тэрэгний хажуу талыг мөргөсөн байдалтай байсан бөгөөд суудлын тэрэгний салхины шилэнд сумны мөр гарчээ.
Энэ нь Дональд Трампын хоёр дахь засаг захиргаа байгуулагдсанаас хойш холбооны цагаачлалын албаныхан оролцсон 11 дэх удаагийн амь хохирсон хэрэг болж байна. Сүүлийн нэг жилийн хугацаанд ICE-ийн ажилтнууд 20 орчим хүнийг буудсан бөгөөд тэдний ихэнх нь автомашинд байх үедээ өртжээ.
Одоогоор АНУ-ын Дотоодын аюулгүй байдлын яам уг хэргийн талаар албан ёсны тайлбар өгөөгүй байна. Тус яамны зүгээс баривчилгааны үеэр сэжигтэн ажилтнуудыг дайрахыг завдсан гэх үндэслэлээр галт зэвсэг хэрэглэдэг ч, өмнөх тохиолдлуудад гэрчүүдийн мэдүүлэг засгийн газрын албан ёсны мэдэгдэлтэй зөрчилдөж байсан тохиолдол бий.
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Federal immigration agents reportedly shot and killed a driver in Maine, according to a state official and a witness who says he saw an officer draw a gun in the street.
In a brief statement Monday morning, Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said “a person was killed” in Biddeford, roughly 15 miles south of Portland. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “was involved,” he said.
“State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well,” according to Fecteau.
Images from the scene posted to social media show an unmarked white SUV with flashing police lights that appears to have rammed the passenger’s side of a white sedan, which is parked at an angle in the middle of an intersection. Bullet holes can be seen in the windshield.
Agents in green vests reading “POLICE” can be seen assisting a person who is lying down on the street beside the car.
Lucas Scott, 18, told the Portland Press Herald that he saw ICE agents in green vests hop out of unmarked vehicles with flashing blue lights. As he turned to see what was happening as he passed through an intersection, he saw an agent draw a firearm and yell at a driver who “was trying to hit the ICE officer,” Scott told the newspaper.
The agent then fired about four shots, he said. “I just heard the popping, but I did see him draw his gun,” he told the Press Herald.
Another witness, Daniel Boucher, said he saw the SUV trying to ram the smaller car.
“He was bleeding profusely from the head,” Boucher told the Press Herald. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to The Independent’s request for comment.
The incident is at least the 11th fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second administration last year and comes less than a week after the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three children who was shot in his car on his way to work in Houston.
Homeland Security has routinely justified shootings with claims that an arrest target has tried to run over agents only for evidence to emerge that contradicts the government’s statements. The administration’s initial statements in the wake of Salgado Araujo’s shooting have come under intense scrutiny after witnesses disputed the government’s official narrative.
Agents have shot at least 20 people within the last year, and nearly all of them were in their cars.
Maine was among several Democratic-led states that saw a surge of federal agents under the Trump administration’s government-wide efforts to swiftly arrest and detain tens of thousands of immigrants.
ICE has accelerated arrests in recent weeks, fueled by the administration’s mandate to arrest at least 2,000 people daily, while the number of people in detention has exploded to more than 63,000 immigrants in jail-like facilities on any given day. Daily arrests peaked at more than 2,400 last month.
“The Trump administration is fulfilling the promise that President Trump was elected on — deporting criminal illegal aliens,” a White House official told The Independent earlier this month.
This is a developing story
