'A Must Read and Truly Horrifying Story'
(TPM) "The AP has just posted a detailed investigation into the background of David Brouillette, the recently hired ICE agent who shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. It’s genuinely horrifying on more levels than are easy to describe. Brouillette was hired during ICE’s recent hiring spree, as the agency attempted to rapidly staff up to manage a program of mass deportation. Brouillette has a long history of severe mental illness, a lengthy history of violence against at least two wives as well as his children, stalking, a seemingly endless list of restraining orders, violent threats against other family members and more."
"According to one relative, Brouillette was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder as a child as well as attention deficit disorder, twice tried to commit suicide at age 12 and was hospitalized multiple times. These early issues appear to have been compounded by service in the military and deployments to Afghanistan which left him with an increased propensity to violence as well as PTSD. A relative told the AP, 'They took someone who was extremely mentally ill and turned him into a killing machine.' (An additional, horrifying detail: Brouillette was initially rejected by the military because of his mental health history. 'But recruiters encouraged him to go off his medications for a year and reapply, which he did,' and he was then enlisted.) If all this weren’t enough, in 2021 he was broke and in some kind of firefighter training program when he was hit in the head by a steel beam and suffered a serious concussion and some sort of permanent brain damage, 'with symptoms including impaired memory, cognitive deficits, headaches, vertigo and light sensitivity.' "
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-must-read-and-truly-horrifying-story
Link to AP article:
https://apnews.com/article/ice-david-brouillette-johan-guerrero-maine-shooting-dbc30d6d59e2a95fb470afc188e125c6
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