GEO Group worker arrested in shooting of protester at Colorado ICE facility

"We remain committed to ensuring an ethical, thorough, objective, and comprehensive review of this case," Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a statement. "Violence of any kind will not be tolerated in Aurora. Constitutional rights are a pivotal part of a just society – violence is not."

ICE operations have come under renewed scrutiny in the aftermath of back-to-back fatal shootings by ICE agents conducting vehicle stops in Houston and Biddeford, Maine. In both cases, DHS has acknowledged that the two men killed, one a Mexican citizen, the other a Colombian national, were not the intended targets of the immigration enforcement operations underway at the time.

Many ICE detention and processing centers, some managed by GEO under contract for the agency, have come under fire from migrant advocates and Democratic politicians who say detainees are subjected to unsafe, unsanitary conditions and a lack of adequate medical care.