Gov. Janet Mills was reportedly shouted at and turned away when attending a memorial for Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford Wednesday afternoon.
The Democratic governor was met with calls from people at the scene to “get out of here,” in the few moments she viewed the memorial of flowers and other items placed at the spot of Guerrero’s death, according to a Boston Globe report.
A video posted to Facebook shows people at the scene shouting at Mills to “just leave” as she gets back into her vehicle.
That came after she called on Maine’s congressional delegation to push for reforms of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after this week’s deadly violence in Biddeford.
In her Wednesday letter to U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and U.S. Reps. Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree, the Democrat said that without fundamental reforms to the agency, it’s time to “abolish” ICE.
Mills also suggested banning ICE agents from masking their faces, requiring them to identify themselves, equipping all agents with body cameras, implementing better training, holding agents accountable for wrongdoing or abusing their power, and requiring court warrants.
“ICE needs to be fundamentally reformed, and if not, then it is time to abolish it,” she wrote.
Hundreds of Mainers across the state have participated in protests denouncing ICE’s actions, including a demonstration in front of Collins’ Biddeford office Monday evening.
