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Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

The Associated Press

ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.

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Hundreds of pages of family court documents detailing physical abuse and threats to kill family members. Teenage daughter had to get a protective order! Who hired him, and why???

Ответ для Mina

Who was letting him see his daughter if he's this much of a basket case? How many others without sound judgement helped this guy to both be in the army and then work for ICE and didn't get him treated until he stayed on his damn meds?

He is a murderer. And so is the rest of ICE. They cannot be reformed.

The government does background checks and "friend background" calls on secretaries. Republicans love talking about how government employees are a menace but they have some of the highest background standards out of any field. But, if it means getting racist police out the door we scrap it all.

It’s so on brand for this administration: seek out the disaffected, uneducated, ignorant, racist, violent people snd give them something to rally around, especially if it points a finger at the Other as the reason for all the perceived injustices and inequities .

I’ve seen enough. Get this guy to the military for testosterone injections for maximum rage and lethality.

You’re assuming he didn’t pass those background checks with flying colors. He’s exactly who they want.

Further evidence that murderous ICE agents are doing exactly what they’re trained and hired to do. I’m looking forward to the day ICE agents are under arrest, prosecuted, convicted, jailed.

This is probably true of 65% or greater of ICE

Ответ для Colonel Forbin 🫘🍃

We don’t invent “facts” here.

Ответ для oma1966

You’re right. It’s probably more like 90%.

Can't say this enough. It's the vetting.

I saw that he at 37 years of age, he begged his ex wife to lie for him. She identified him.

This is what happens when you try to dismantle a government and it backfires! And then they blame the man with Mental Health issues when they are the ones responsible! Talk about throwing him under the bus! 🙄🤬

Sounds like he checks every box to be qualified as an ICE agent.

Makes perfect sense to hire him since ICE seems to be using terror to scare people into leaving. I’m betting people like Miller would like to give him, and others who’ve done the same, a bonus.

One of my exes joined ICE circa 2009. Their hiring standards were already significantly less than municipal police departments - they didn't require applicants to take the MMPI, which is why my ex applied; he had failed the MMPI for several municipal police departments.

It’ s not a bug, it’s a feature

Here's the 'worst of the worst' ICE has been talking about

Not an accident. I think this is exactly the kind of people that ICE is looking for, not decent, compassionate humans.

Besides Brouillette, a lot more people need to be on trial for first-degree murder. The people who recruited him. The people who 'trained' him. The people who put him into the field. And, of course, the entire administration.

Arrest him for god sakes!!

#ICE is evil Arrest and prosecute the killers. Sue ICE, and Stephen Miller .

This man should not have a gun.

Maine needs to issue a warrant - murder

ICE: It was only a matter of time before he was going to kill someone. At least he got a paycheck, right?

People should note that this man arrived at ICE after having already been hired by the military, local police, and a prison. *Hired by*, not just having applied to. ICE is a reflection of America's willingness to pay for and ignore a gigantic carceral state.

The should sue the higher ups for not properly vetting

ICE just as well might have set up recruiting tables outside of the Oakland-Alameda County Jai for the recently released. If you were convicted of violent assault you’d get a hiring bonus. If you were white and convicted of violent assault you’d get an expense account.

His mental illness is that he is a fucking pussy ass lil bitch.

These are features, not bugs.

Trump only hires the best.

Portland newspaper reported DHS initially said this guy had decade of federal law enforcement experience. AP has him doing year or so stint as cop with local VA MedCenter, then flushing out, broke and driving for DoorDash. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officerAn ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.www.pressherald.com

I have to wonder if DHS is looking for people just like this. Vetting? I think not.

I’m willing to state that I believe they actively seek to hire men like this.

ICE is criminal AND incompetent. It must be abolished.

Who else would want to work for ICE?

Pin a badge on a psycho and all of a sudden the expected happens

I guess he’ll be getting a promotion now. Maybe a Cabinet position.

To be very clear, this is true of many police officers and ICE goons. Police nationwide have statistically hire rates of DV than the general population.

So now we just hire anybody off the street and give them a gun? What have we become?

Yea right. I'll bet hard cash that his background check cleared.

B

I think we should also ask why the Maine National Guard told him to go off meds and enlist, and then the Army decided to send him to Afghanistan, and then how he was hired as law enforcement in Maine…

Ответ для blackberrystone

Eventually, we will see the parallels between the mental health effect of sending a person to war with CTE in the NFL.

Wasn't that a requirement to get hired?

Let the lawsuits fly!

Trump ICE hiring standards @ms.now 1. Did you vote for Trump? 2. Does criminal history include violent crime(s)? (Psycho/Sociopath) 3. Will you do your patriotic duty & exterminate POC (vermin) & Non-MAGA Domestic Terrorists to save “OUR” country? (Modern day slave catchers & public lynchings)

David August ❌👑

Huh, so ice, a criminal organization operating mainly outside the scope of the law, prone to summary executions, murder, SA, malnourishing captives, denying medical care, breaking and entering, violating judicial orders, defying Congress: hires people who are violent and criminal?! I’m surprised.

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Color me shocked. 🙄

Family court and this guy has a gun and badge...what a shocker ...

No wonder Holman was talking out of his ass, threatening things will get bloody unless Dems shut their mouths. He's behind the 8 Ball and is in over his fat bald head.

What this unfortunately deranged man needs is to join the military and get free testosterone shots 'cuz we need more lethality.

He should be investigated and put in jail.

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Can we prosecute the people who hired this person?

It just so awful and unnecessary! 🤬 Susan Collins is such a colossal fuck up. I have no idea how anyone in Maine could possible believe her, or ever vote for her yet again. 😵‍💫🤮

Abolish ICE

He had all the qualifications for maga

He had always been an asshole. Then he found the ICE job, that paid him to be an asshole.

Arrest him and give him life in prison!

Mental health issues and violence against women are prerequisites for ICE.

Only the best ..

Now imagine what life is like in a prison camp run by a bunch of these guys

A background check will block that man from getting any federal job, much less one where they hand him a gun. Is that why Trump wants to change the rules to let those with mental illnesses have guns? Ah, now it makes sense. This was all deliberate.

Looks like ICE misunderstood the directive to ‘grab the worst of the worse’. They hired them.

Good Lord! 😳

They do attract the best people. Could they get people who are any less loathsome if they actively tried?

Are we still pretending ICE doesn't want to hire people like this?

Typical tRump move. Bring in the thugs

Key reasons we must abolish ICE now! They are a clear and present danger!

I’m sure they had hiring *quotas* too. This is just a deadly example of how they don’t do their jobs screening people and only someone unwell really wants this job.

Only the best people.

That's not a flaw but a feature I'd bet elevated professional training standards and strictly enforced hiring requirements are far from the first priority for building a masked army willing to terrorize a population for a budding dictator.

ICE IS TERRORISM. Class action lawsuits needed. Defund and Abolish ICE now. 😡😡😡

ACAB. That's all I have. Just ACAB (and fuck ICE)

This administration hires the “best”.

atp it’s just bad to hire the guy for his own sake. i mean ur allowing him to be put in situations where he can hurt someone, himself, and also be even more mentally harmed. there’s no way this guy was even interviewed prob just given the job no questions asked.

Of course.

Murderers belongs in prison

More and more it seems Trump signing on for measures to make it easier for the mentally ill to get guns were -admissions of who MAGA are, and -intended to arm them.

Worst of the worst.

Quelle surprise

In Maine, a private person can arrest someone without a warrant if they have probable cause that the person committed murder or a Class A, B, or C crime, or if the person actually commits certain misdemeanors in their presence. He’s cooked.

R

I remember the fiasco when DC police hired a while bunch of stooges in the early 90s.

This incident escalates the already serious questions about ICE's hiring practices. He reportedly has a diagnosis of severe bipolar disorder, confirmed by family, and was hospitalized for suicide multiple times. How many corners were cut to hire him and put a gun in his hand?

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

my op was august 2025. the kind of vetting dhs is *supposed* to do for agents should have easily flagged David Brouillette as a do not hire. so, did they not do it? or did they hire him anyway? bsky.app/profile/auti...

Bea

i posted this 2 months ago. all info was on gov't websites at the time. they're supposed to get a full "personnel vetting" which is WAY more detailed than a simple background check.

Ответ для Bea

It might be getting done, but not before they're already in office, given a gun, and sent out. They probably get the checks back after they've actually put in some hours on the job.

Ответ для Sokudoningyou 🇲🇽🗽 🇺🇦

that has already been happening.

Ответ для Bea

Note that a psych evaluation is not part of the background check for ICE.

Ответ для ROUSes? I don't think they exist

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Ответ для ROUSes? I don't think they exist

but it should have included employment history (his ex-wife had notified them about her concerns), and interviews with friends, family, and other "relevant people".

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Too bad he failed

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

The bipolar diagnosis should have been disqualifying for military service, much less ICE.

Ответ для Tom

I had that thought, it's my one bit of skepticism there; a BPD diagnosis should have prevented him joining. Not sure; maybe it was never a formal diagnoses, or sealed childhood records?

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

It doesn't add up. The military can look at sealed medical records. You give sign a release that allows them to get your medical records directly from the hospital.

Ответ для ROUSes? I don't think they exist

They can, but don't necessarily know to go looking if it isn't disclosed. They can't query every mental health provider in the state or whatever.

Ответ для Tom

Turns out this is addressed in the stories I just missed it.

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

When you are back to "of clinical concern" we can then accept you.

Ответ для River Tide

Which goes to show how messed up military recruiting is. Bipolar isn't a condition that goes away. Managing it is definitely possible but isn't consistent with the demands of military service or function as a law enforcement officer.

Ответ для Tom

That's the fun of having such a disjointed healthcare system. When I was in bootcamp, they tried to use a scare tactic, a moment of truth as the last opportunity to confess to anything you lied about to get in. Drug use, medical conditions, etc. Maybe it's more cost-effective that way?

Ответ для Yernot MaDad

This was about 17 years ago, btw, but I doubt they suddenly started spending more money digging these things up. Uninsured people often go to the emergency room... if you're diagnosed with something at a hospital and never follow up on it, who would know besides that hospital?

Ответ для Yernot MaDad

I knew one guy who made it almost a year before his back started to hurt... turned out he had scoliosis. They did their best to ruin him by accusing him of falsely enlisting and hiding his medical condition from them, which was untrue. The clowns have been in charge of the circus for a while.

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Or a fraudulent enlistment because he failed to disclose his diagnosis. It's not like there's a national database of mental health diagnoses.

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Im not sure life long bipolar is even an accepted diagnosis in pre-adolescent children. It’s not a developmental delay type diagnosis like ADHD.

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

ICE looked at his history and gladly put a gun in his hands They want rabid attack dogs This isn't a bug for them, it's a feature

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

All of them, even the ones hired long before the hiring spree last year are bonafide pieces of shit. I’ve had the displeasure of “meeting” dozens of them. There were never any good eggs in this agency. Abolish ICE.

Brendan Davey

A bit about some of these bonafide government assholes.🧵

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Did the fact he shot someone to death in the street make you think he was a well adjusted and positive member of society? How did the murder in cold blood not suggest, to you, that he was not the picture of stable and safe? In other words, wtaf are you reasoning here?

Ответ для David August ❌👑

I do believe the point is that besides the fact that they abet and cover up ICE murders--not all of them had a prior diagnosis, just as police officers who murder don't all--this is extra ammunition for the case of "abolish ICE" because they aren't even doing basic recruit screening. Too.

Ответ для Democracy Dies in Dorkness

Ah. I see. That could well be. Thank you.

Ответ для David August ❌👑

Wut? "Long history of violence [...] ICE slashed hiring standards [...] This incident escalates the already serious questions about ICE's hiring practices [...] How many corners were cut to hire him and put a gun in his hand?" He's saying ICE is not background checking & is hiring loose cannons.

Ответ для ROUSes? I don't think they exist

Are they? Or are they hiring precisely who the admin wants: a paramilitary that answers only to potus and operates as if it is above or somehow beyond the law? Ice is not a flawed law enforcement organization anymore. They are a rogue element of an anti-democracy administration.

Ответ для David August ❌👑

Yes, they are hiring loose cannons because that is who they want to hire. They have been hiring people who failed psych evals for regular police departments as long as they have existed. This incident is being posited as proof of that, not a fluke.

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

"How many corners were cut to hire him and put a gun in his hand?"... All of them. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤡🫏🖕🖕💩💩

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

they didn't cut any corners, they hired exactly who they wanted to have in this job

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Now he has a good reason to hate himself

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

As someone who advocates on behalf of those with mental illnesses, I find the "mental leap" extremely frustrating: it never helps those who need the help and not a label. There are three traditionally recognized types of BiPolar Disorder: there is no diagnosis of "severe" BiPolar Disorder.

What Are Bipolar Disorders?Learn about bipolar disorder, including types, symptoms, and treatment optionswww.psychiatry.org
Ответ для Carrie 💙

It is quite common to add “mild”, “ moderate” or “ severe “ to diagnoses, bipolar disorder is no exception.

Ответ для Carrie 💙

I know someone from Maine who has a family history of what’s called bipolar (obviously genetic and dominant, bc everyone on one side of the family has it), and it’s an idiosyncratic form that doesn’t really fit the standard def. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was even from the same extended family.

Ответ для Karl Magnacca

And having met some of their cousins and siblings, some were clearly more seriously affected than others.

Ответ для Karl Magnacca

I appreciate the information.

Ответ для Carrie 💙

Can a diagnosis like life long bipolar disorder even be given to a pre-adolescent child? ADHD and other developmental disorders yes. But bipolar before puberty?

Ответ для Anonymous-Scientist

I'm not sure. I advocate and help educate parents, patients, and their families thru NAMI. I do know: We desperately need Mental Health EDUCATION and medical care. We desperately need quality medical research for mental (and physical diseases yet 💔

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

A private security guard company would face a massive civil lawsuit over this incident based on flagrant hiring failures, and failure to conduct any kind of background check to screen out mentally ill candidates and those with a history of family violence.

Ответ для Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

This is who they want to hire.

EXCLUSIVE! EXCLUSIVE! BREAKING NEWS! Duh. No Shit, Sherlock.

Why is this surprising to people? Shouldn't we have assumed all along any Ice Agent hired in the last 1.5 years is an ignorant, lowlife who was otherwise unemployable but simply possessed a willingness and infatuation to punch down on the most vulnerable among us to make themselves feel good.