The Trump ICE agent who shot and killed an unarmed man in Maine has a long history of violent behavior and domestic abuse. David Brouillette once threw boiling water at his first ex-wife while she was holding a baby. His second wife divorced him and filed for legal protection from him.
The standards for ICE are very low. They recruit disturbed psychos who have no business with a badge and a gun. They act more like Nazi Browshirts than like professional law endorsement.
Did we mention that David Brouillette has been a racist since at least high school? NPR reports...
Scott Collins told NPR that he was best friends with David Brouillette in high school in Maine. Collins testified on behalf of Ashley Brouillette in the divorce proceedings.
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Collins also said that David Brouillette used anti-Black racial slurs in high school. Ashley Brouillette says she worries racism may have played a part in Durán Guerrero's death.
"He has displayed racism. His nickname in high school was 'White Boy David,' if that tells you anything," she said.
Congressional Republicans have been enthusiastically tossing tens of billions of dollars down the ICE rat hole so that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller can hire the worst of the worst of what this country has to offer.
As disgusting as David Brouillette may be, true blame should be placed on those who have funded him. Only 108 Days remain until the Midterm Elections. Throw MAGA Republicans out on their ass.
ICE lowered its standards to build its ranks—and now blood has been spilled because of it.
Emily Singer at Daily Kos:
When the Trump administration announced it was lowering hiring standards and shortening the length of training for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers so that the agency could have more warm bodies to aid in President Donald Trump’s racist mass deportation efforts, experts warned that the changes could have deadly consequences.
Sadly, those experts’ warnings are proving to be correct.
The Associated Press on Thursday night reported that close relatives to David Brouillette—the ICE agent who shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian immigrant in Maine—describe him as a violent and mentally unstable man who should never have been given access to a gun or power.
According to the report, family members accused Brouillette “of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.”
Brouillette’s ex-wife, Ashley Brouillette, told the AP that he had been violent toward her, including one incident in which he threw boiling water at her while holding the couple’s daughter. She added that when he told her he was hired by ICE, she didn’t believe him because he had a history of psychiatric issues and she thought he was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Brouillette’s reported violent history could easily have been found if ICE had done a comprehensive background check.
According to the AP, Brouillette’s violent conduct was detailed in “hundreds of family court records,” which accused Brouillette of stalking, harassment, and physical and verbal abuse. Another relative told AP that Brouillette had been also diagnosed with “severe bipolar disorder,” had been hospitalized multiple times, and twice attempted suicide.
What’s more, Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald that she had personally warned her ex-husband’s previous superiors in the military of his issues, yet he had remained on the job.
But ICE was so desperate to deport people of color that they hired a man like Brouillette, who, according to both the AP and Portland Press Herald, admitted to his ex-wife and daughter that he was the officer who shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the Colombian immigrant who was legally in the United States. Reportedly, he even asked them to lie about what happened.
David Brouillette, the ICE goon who killed Joan Sebastián Guerrero, has a long history of violence, especially towards women.
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AP, via HuffPost: ICE Officer In Maine Shooting Has History Of Violent Behavior, Family And Records Say
David Brouillette's former wife, Lucinda Brouillette, writes about her experiences in a message Saturday.
“If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes,” Lucinda Brouillette wrote.
The ICE agent who killed a 26-year-old man in Maine has been identified as David Michael Brouillette. His ex-wife says she tried to warn his
David Michael Brouillette was identified by his ex-wife, Ashley Brouillette, as the ICE agent who fatally shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the Portland Press-Herald reports. Ashley told the newspaper over the phone Thursday afternoon that her former husband had called her admitting to the shooting and defending his actions.
"He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character," Ashley Brouillette said to the Press-Herald. "I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car."
"In his head it's justified. He's unusually calm about it," she said, adding that she had seen videos of the incident and did not believe his story.
David Brouillette is a licensed real estate agent and veteran who has worked for law enforcement and public safety agencies in the past. His former wife said that she had warned his military superiors about his mental health, and that he was abusive to her. ICE reportedly hired Brouillette earlier this year.
Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, the immigrant food delivery driver who was shot in the head by an ICE agent on July 13 in Biddeford, Maine. While investigators are sorting out the specifics of the shooting, we are learning enough about the ICE agent accused of shooting Durán Guerrero.
All we can say about the agent, David Brouillette, is hoo boy. Folks, is it bad when multiple relatives of the agent, including his ex-wife and his daughter, are telling the Associated Press he “has a history of terrifying and violent behavior,” or that as recently as last year he left a voicemail for that same ex-wife saying she should have her throat slit?