‘My Neighbor Was Murdered by White Supremacists’: Zeteo Reports From Maine on Yet Another ICE Killing
Andrew Perez went to Biddeford, Maine, where ICE killed Joan Sebastián Guerrero and left his blood in the street, to speak to residents and protesters about the latest state-sponsored violence.
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BIDDEFORD, Maine – Thirty-six hours after Donald Trump’s masked secret police killed Joan Sebastián Guerrero, his blood is still on the ground, stained into the road.
“This is blood,” someone has written in chalk. There’s a memorial on the sidewalk with bouquets of flowers, candles, notes, cardboard signs, and a drawing of Guerrero. There’s a stuffed bear and a toy lobster. A dozen people stand across the street, outside a pawn shop, protesting solemnly, as cars drive by.
“It felt important to come out and stand for community and connection against destruction and disorder; that’s why I’m still standing here,” Gracelyn Kilpatrick, a 36-year-old Biddeford resident, tells Zeteo, as she holds an American flag. “I’ve been here for about three hours now, and I don’t want to leave this space unattended… I know that there are vigils and protests going on in other places. I think it’s really important to be here.”
Since the start of his second presidency, Trump has brought an intensifying level of disorder and destruction throughout the United States, as he’s turned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into an unaccountable paramilitary force that wages war on American cities, kidnaps immigrants, and kills people with impunity, sometimes on video. Republicans – including Maine Senator Susan Collins, who’s up for re-election – have responded to mounting public outrage by defending ICE and showering it with cash.