MS NOW's Rachel Maddow opened up her Monday night show with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting of a Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, which agents claim was in self-defense but that video heavily disagrees with.
Her main question, leading the night, was "will there be a real investigation into the shooting?" And so far, one key move ICE made — or didn't make — doesn't bode well for the answer.
"Maine Senator Angus King and Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins and Maine Democratic Governor Janet Mills and most of the other sort of powers that be that have reacted to the shooting in Maine. They all keep saying the same thing, which is that they demand, or they at least want, or at least they might expect a full and independent investigation into what happened," said Maddow.
The question, she asked, is what that would look like.
For starters, she said, it "seems to me like if you've really got a full and independent investigation into a fatal shooting, one of the things you get is a crime scene, right? A cordoned-off crime scene where you get law enforcement ... keeping anyone or anything from contaminating the crime scene." However, she continued, "what we got was this," and showed a picture of a completely unsecured and still messy crime scene.
"See what's in the gutter there?" said Maddow. "That's this man's blood all over the street. And that's a concerned local resident overlooking that." Residents, she noted, were "remarking on the fact" that blood was everywhere, "flowing through their gutters," with no one to contain the scene properly.
"Writing rightnext to it on the street, inchalk, in big letters, 'This isblood.' And the reason that isso shocking to see is becausethat is blood. And you don'tsee this at a typical crimescene, because typically whenthere's a full and independentinvestigation of a crime, thescene where the crime happenedis treated like a crime scene."
But that's not what happened, she noted.
"This was today in Maine by the 3:00 hour this afternoon, again, still the same day as the killing."