Friday’s event, organized by Biddeford Saco for Racial Justice, was just one of many in Maine this week in the wake of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s shooting death.
Drew Johnson
Staff Writer
Drew is the night reporter for the Portland Press Herald. He previously covered South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth for the Sentry, Leader and Southern Forecaster. Though he is from Massachusetts, Drew grew up going to his family’s lake house in Denmark, Maine, learning to snow ski at Pleasant Mountain and water ski on Moose Pond. While he started as a “Vacationlander”, Drew adopted “the way life should be” motto and moved to Portland in 2021.
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Ellsworth man dies of injuries sustained in propane explosion in converted RV
The Office of State Fire Marshal believes an electric motor in the bus sparked the blast on Tuesday.
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ICE officers at Biddeford fatal shooting were reportedly wearing body cameras they can’t turn on
The camera function of the body-worn devices is not used because of a federal contract with Axon, according to reporting by The Intercept.
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Driver killed by falling limb in storms that swept through Maine
Nearly 60,000 Central Maine Power and Versant Power customers were without electricity Thursday evening, but that number dropped to about 25,000 by 7:30 a.m. Friday morning.
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Protesters shoo Gov. Janet Mills from Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s memorial in Biddeford
‘Don’t come back up here unless you got results!’ one person yelled at the governor.
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Crowd gathers in Portland to protest killing of Colombian man by federal immigration agent
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was shot to death in a car Monday in Biddeford.
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Hundreds gather for vigil in Biddeford after man killed by ICE agent
The vigil Monday night capped a day of protests sparked by the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man from Colombia by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Monday.
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Coalition urges Maine Democratic Party to reconsider U.S. Senate nomination process
The group of voters and local and county party committee members wants the party to provide time for public input before cementing the process to replace Graham Platner on the ballot.
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Couple injured in Penobscot County crash that sent vehicle 14 feet in the air
A 78-year-old Dover-Foxcroft man sustained life-threatening injuries and his 71-year-old wife was also injured, officials say.
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Biddeford’s Banded Brewing Co. to close at summer’s end
‘We still have one last summer together. Let’s make it a good one!’ the brewery said in a social post.