Here’s a question: is the federal government just deputizing any-ol’-body to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents?
I mean, we’ve already reported on how the government has lowered the standards for ICE recruitment, even going as far as to waive age requirements in order to “take father/son bonding to a whole new level,” but is the government even running background checks at all before unleashing violent, xenophobic thugs with badges and guns onto the public?
This week, we reported on the fatal shooting of a Colombian man in Maine by an ICE agent, which occurred just a few days after the fatal shooting of Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, which has prompted city-wide protests and condemnation from city officials, community members and activist groups alike. In both cases, the government claimed the victim weaponized their vehicles against agents, although in the latest case, the government walked back its narrative, saying the victim, 25-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, “attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.”
Well, now, there’s available information on that federal agent, 37-year-old David Brouillette, and, unsurprisingly, he has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to his own relatives, specifically, his ex-wife, who provided horrific anecdotes about his history of extreme violence and mental illness.
From the Associated Press:
Brouillette, 37, told his ex-wife Ashley Brouillette late last year that he had been hired by ICE. She said that because of his long history of psychiatric issues, she thought he was having a mental health episode and she didn’t believe him. She didn’t realize he’d been telling the truth until this week, when videos began circulating online of the moments surrounding the shooting.
Ashley Brouillette told the AP that she spoke to her ex-husband in a Facebook audio call, and he acknowledged that he had killed Durán Guerrero. Their 18-year-old daughter, Madison Brouillette, also told the AP that her father called her Wednesday and said that he shot and killed Durán Guerrero.
David and Ashley Brouillette were high school sweethearts who got married in 2007. She said she divorced him in 2009 because he had become physically violent with her, which began after she got pregnant with their daughter.
According to Ashley Brouillette, he once threw boiling water at her while she was holding their child — an incident her mother Avis Collins also recounted.
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