Will the real terrorists please stand up?

[Opinion. Can there really be any doubt about the impunity given to US brownshirt thugs? Even off-duty...] Geo Group and CoreCivic are the US' major private prison operators. Guy wasn't even ICE! Must be afraid for his job, eh. If you've got money to invest and have no moral qualms 30.92 for Geo, 31.35 for CoreCivic. In the US, these are more solid and bigger future growth than AI.]

Off-duty employee at Colorado ICE facility arrested for shooting protester

Woman has non-life threatening injuries after Brandon Booth shot her with pistol outside ICE facility and drove off

Dara Kerr

The Guardian: 17 Jul 2026

SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/colorado-ice-employee-arrested-shooting-protester

An employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening. The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day, according to the Aurora police department.

When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body. She had a friend with her, who was unharmed.

Police said they stopped a man in his vehicle not far from the scene. They seized his car and gun and identified him as Brandon Booth, 42, an employee for Geo Group.

“We are aware that an off-duty Aurora ICE Processing Center employee was involved in a shooting incident,” a spokesperson for Geo Group said in an email. “This individual has been placed on unpaid administrative leave, and we will fully cooperate with law enforcement.”

Geo Group is a $4bn company that runs a vast network of private immigration detention centers and state prisons across the US. The company has deep ties to the government with numerous multi-year contracts with the Department of Homeland Security for detention facilities, transportation services and immigrant-tracking programs. In June, the former Geo Group executive David Venturella was named the acting director of ICE.