Geo Group Employee Arrested in Colorado ICE Protest Shooting, Facing 5 Felony Charges
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 17
Geo Group Employee Arrested in Colorado ICE Protest Shooting, Facing 5 Felony Charges
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 17
Summary
Brandon Booth, 42, was booked after police said he shot a woman in the lower body outside the Aurora ICE Processing Center; her injuries were non-life-threatening.
Aurora police said the off-duty Geo Group employee fired one shot after two women who had joined a protest argued with employees waiting in cars and photographed their vehicles.
Geo Group put Booth on unpaid administrative leave and said it would cooperate with investigators; police listed probable-cause charges including attempted second-degree murder, assault and felony menacing.
The shooting hit a facility already under scrutiny from immigrant advocates over detainee treatment and from a tuberculosis outbreak reported earlier this week that sickened at least 12 detainees.
Geo Group, a $4 billion private detention and prison company with extensive DHS contracts, has deep ties to ICE; a former executive became the agency's acting director in June.