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How ICE Gunmen Exposed Moral Vacuum in a Few Callous Seconds

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13.07.2026

The tweeting of birds on a summer morning in Biddeford, Maine was interrupted by sound of Trump’s America: Four gunshots fired by an ICE agent.

A witness then heard another sound: A cry from a mortally wounded 26-year-old Colombian immigrant from behind the wheel of a white Kia Ceed sedan.

ICE had been trying to arrest the man in—on their account— the mistaken belief he was the subject of an arrest warrant. He now sat silent and motionless as the Kia kept rolling in a slow circle at the intersection of Pool and Hill Streets in this small coastal city around 7:30 am. There were four bullet holes in the windshield. The driver’s side window was blown out.

“He tried to run me over!” the agent who had apparently fired the shots was now heard to say as he sought to stop the Kia by grabbing a door handle.

An ICE vehicle, also white, but an SUV, pulled up and nudged the smaller Ceed to a stop. There were more sounds.

A little girl in Bluey pajamas with a pink backpack—the dead man’s daughter—stood crying in the street. A woman—his wife—was........

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