GEO Group worker charged with assault in shooting of ICE protester in Colorado
GEO•Broader ICE violence and protest context
The incident in Colorado followed back-to-back fatal shootings earlier this month by ICE agents conducting vehicle stops in Houston, Texas, and Biddeford in Maine.
In both those cases, federal authorities acknowledged that the two men killed, one a Mexican citizen, the other a Colombian national, were not the intended targets of immigration enforcement operations underway at the time.
Two U.S. citizens involved in protests against ICE operations in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, were shot to death by immigration officials in January.
No criminal charges have been filed in connection with any of those shootings. Many ICE detention and processing centers, some managed by GEO under contract for the agency, have been criticized by migrant rights and civil liberties advocates who say detainees are subjected to unsafe, unsanitary conditions and a lack of adequate medical care.
