Ashley Brouillette had not heard from her ex-husband, David Brouillette, since November. She says one of their last interactions was a three-minute voicemail in which David told her that someone should slit her and her daughters’ throats.
Then, last week, Ashley got a call from a journalist, who asked if she recognized her ex-husband among the ICE agents photographed after the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. She did. The news caught her off guard, so she reached out to David: He told her he’d shot Durán and that he’d acted in self-defense because, he claimed, Durán tried to hit him with a car. Ashley doesn’t believe him. After watching the limited surveillance footage of the incident, she believes her ex-husband “murdered” Durán, a 25-year-old Colombian man whose daughter recently celebrated her third birthday.
Durán was not the target of ICE’s operation in Biddeford. After coming to the United States in 2023, he got jobs cleaning a veterinary office and delivering food. In a press conference, Durán’s partner, Martha Karolina Rojas Álvarez, described him as someone whose joy was contagious. “He always said I was his life, and that he dreamed of a whole lifetime with me,” Rojas said through a translator. “He always told me, Until we’re little old people.”
After the killing, Ashley says, David told her that she needed to talk about his character in a positive way. “I’m not going to lie for you,” she replied. She says he also asked her not to talk about abuse that had happened in their marriage, which ended in 2009. When reached by Mother Jones, Ashley accused David of years of violence and abuse, allegations that were corroborated by her mother and echoed comments Ashley had made to a child welfare official years ago, according to court records. The Augusta, Maine, police department did not find documentation of the alleged abuse, but she and her mother recalled harrowing details. One time, Ashley alleges, David threw hot water at her while she held their daughter. Another time, he allegedly pointed a gun at her and said he should shoot her in their bathtub. Now, with David on the phone, Ashley repeated that she wouldn’t lie for him.
Another ex-wife, Lucinda Brouillette, said in a statement to reporters that she “unequivocally” believes David is capable of extreme acts of violence. In hundreds of pages of court records, she has accused him of physical and verbal abuse, including allegedly dumping a plate of spaghetti on his 13-year-old daughter’s head and then tackling her while she cried. “I have feared for a long time that his anger, aggression, and escalating behavior would eventually result in severe, life-threatening violence, and I often believed I would be the one on the receiving end of it,” Lucinda wrote.
“Mark! You’re so *mean*! There are always a few bad app–“
Don’t give me that garbage. ICE has carefully designed its recruitment to not look at the mental stability of vengeful racists and violent predator they give bum’s rush into their ranks.
ICE wants the people who always wanted to hunt humans for sport but who were constrained by bourgeois convention–till Trump. Say it with me: System don’t do what you want them to do. They do what they are designed to do. ICE is a system carefully designed by a criminal adminstration to sow terror and inflict death on a subject population with no regard for the law or the rights of human beings. That’s why it murders people and that’s why those murderers are protected by the criminal in the White House.
Nietzsche was right to note that when belief in the gospel faded, Christian morality would fade with it. But even he never dreamed that the #1 champions of taking a shit on Christian morals would be people who insisted on retaining a few vestigial attachments to Christian aesthetics and jargon while filling the empty husk of the faith they were raised to revere but not practice with the antichrist worship of Mammon, Mars, and Venus.
Meanwhile, it is the liberals and atheists I was darkly warned of in my youth who are the ones battling to live by the Sermon on the Mount.
“What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he repented and went. And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” (Mt 21:28–31)
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Working for ICE is an opportunity to beat up and terrorize people. So some of the people they recruit will be thugs. Thugs with guns and badges. They arrest and rough up not only illegal aliens but legitimate green card holders and even US citizens. Republicans tell us this is a good thing. Really?
People think that because they are a citizen, that they are safe. First they came for the Communists, but I said nothing because I was not a Communist…..
Sadly, this surprises me not at all. I have quite a few friends and family members in law enforcement, and there are two basic kinds: There are the good and decent public servants who are really trying to make their communities a better place. And there are thugs with badges who get off on violence and pushing their weight around. There are a lot more of the latter than you’d like to believe.
And administration knows it. But budgets are so low and everyone is so litigious that a “problem cop” has to do something really egregious to lose his job. Usually, sheriffs and police chiefs just get rid of problem officers by passing them on to other departments.