Rep. Pingree responds to Biddeford incident
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said in a video she posted to Instagram around 9:40 a.m. Monday that she was driving to Portland to catch a flight to Washington when she heard about the ICE shooting.
She and her office are working on learning more details about it, and Pingree offered “my sympathy to the individual and their family and the entire community of Biddeford,” adding “we will be mourning yet another victim.”
“I am so deeply disturbed and angry,” Pingree, whose 1st District covers Biddeford and southern Maine, said. “I, of course, need to know all of the answers here.”
She rattled off questions she has, including whether officers were pursuing someone with a criminal record, if it was a traffic stop, if the officers were wearing body cameras and why the person was shot.
“More than anything else, I want to know, why are you in Maine?” Pingree said, directing that to ICE agents. “Every report we hear is about somebody being picked up who legally was here, and is this going to be another one of those stories?”
Spokespeople for U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, the lone Republican in the delegation, and Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, acknowledged a reporter’s message Monday morning but had not yet shared comments from Maine’s senators.
The same was true for U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat whose 2nd District does not include Biddeford but rather the northern half of Maine.
“We aren’t weighing in (until) more information is available,” a King spokesperson texted a Press Herald reporter.
