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https://www.cpr.org/2026/07/17/ice-jail-employee-arrested-in-protester-shooting/A woman was shot Thursday night after a protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Aurora. An employee of GEO Group, which operates the facility, was arrested in connection with the shooting.
The shooting came after a confrontation between protesters and the suspect, Brandon Booth, 42, according to the Aurora Police Department.
The womans injuries are believed to be non-fatal.
Aurora PD responded to the shooting at 7:30 p.m., finding a woman had been shot in her lower body. She was with another woman who was uninjured.
Police then stopped and detained Booth, 42, a GEO Group employee, not far from the facility on the 3100 block of Nome Street.
Police reported that Booth and his colleagues had been unable to get into the facility for their work shifts due to the protest. The two women reportedly took pictures of the employees cars and got into a verbal altercation with the employees before walking away.
Booth then took out his personal firearm and fired one shot in the direction of the women, hitting one woman, police alleged. He got back into his car and drove away, according to Aurora PD.
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IcyPeas
(26,083 posts)- From linked article on OP
chowder66
(12,787 posts)CDPHE laid out the request in a July 14 letter to Warden Juan Baltazar and Health Administrator Anhtuan Pham of The GEO Group, which manages the facility in Adams County. The letter, signed by CDPHE Executive Director Jill Hunsaker Ryan, asks GEO to "immediately provide the access, records, and information needed to conduct the public health investigation of a confirmed case of active tuberculosis disease" at the facility.
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The letter lists five specific actions CDPHE wants GEO to take by July 17:
Turn over all medical records for the patient diagnosed with TB
Turn over records for any other staff or detainees screened or tested for TB since that patient arrived at the facility
Provide the information needed for contact tracing
Allow CDPHE, the tuberculosis clinic and county health staff into the facility to conduct a disease control investigation
Provide any additional records CDPHE deems necessary as the investigation continues
Joy Athanasiou is an immigration attorney whose client is being held at the processing center.
More, including the letter...
https://www.denver7.com/lifestyle/health/state-health-dept-gives-geo-group-until-friday-to-allow-tuberculosis-investigation-at-aurora-ice-facility
Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees
At least 12 people detained at a federal immigration jail in Colorado have contracted tuberculosis in recent days, according to testimony from inside the facility where dozens of others have reportedly been placed in quarantine.
Those affected by the outbreak are also being made to endure their isolation without air conditioning, one detainee who has been at the facility in Aurora since December told the Guardian, through his partner, in a telephone call on Monday afternoon.
Neither the Department of Homeland Security, nor the Geo Group, the Florida-based private company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center under government contract, responded to a request for comment or confirmation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/tuberculosis-outbreak-colorado-ice-jail
Lifeafter70
(1,320 posts)Seems like what he really need is estrogen.
Could help with his anger issues
Low estrogen in men causes irritability and mood swings....just saying
Solly Mack
(97,607 posts)angrychair
(12,679 posts)For a job with Ice