Anti-ICE agitators descend on Susan Collins' office, strike journalist with skateboard after ICE-involved shooting in Maine

Anti-ICE agitators in Maine descended on Senator Susan Collins' office in the state after a Colombian migrant was shot by an ICE agent on Monday. Protests erupted after the shooting before details were fully released on the situation, and even got violent, where an agitator struck a press member with a skateboard.

On Monday morning, an ICE agent shot at a driver who was reportedly driving a vehicle at the agent, according to authorities. One witness said that the driver was "trying to hit" the ICE agent. The car was seen being surrounded by ICE officers on footage as the car was going slowly in a circular motion. It was not immediately clear if the car was traveling in circles before or after the shooting took place.

In reaction to the incident, Collins posted to X, "The shooting in Biddeford requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened. It is my understanding that the Biddeford police have secured the site and that the FBI is investigating."

Despite her call for an impartial investigation, left-wing agitators still swarmed her office in Maine, with them chanting "throw her out" while banging on the windows.

Footage from the Maine Wire also showed an anti-ICE agitator strike a press member with a skateboard.

The reporter asked a man why he was here, and in reaction, the agitator said he was there to protest while he swung the skateboard, hitting the reporter and the camera out of the press member's hands.

The man who was shot by ICE in Maine has been identified as a 26-year-old Colombian man who had previously had a deportation order, per Sen. Angus King citing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. However, at the time of the shooting the man had a work authorization in the US, according to the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine. 

The shooting is under investigation. “He had been given an order to leave the country,” King said in a press conference. “He was in a vehicle. Pulled out in the vehicle, and the term the Secretary used was 'weaponized the vehicle.’ He was shot by an ICE agent.”