Back in July in Biddeford, Maine, an ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero while he sat behind the wheel of his car. Guerrero was 25, a Colombian father who was authorized to work in this country, and he wasn’t even the person agents were supposedly there to find. DHS floated a story about a targeted arrest and a ‘weaponized vehicle,’ quietly walked it back, and then flatly refused to say who pulled the trigger.
The local newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, did the job DHS wouldn’t and identified the shooter as David Michael Brouillette, a 37-year-old from Manchester, Maine. What surfaced later was uglier than Satan’s scrotum.
Brouillette’s ex-wives described violence and years of protective orders, and one of them said he called asking her to lie for him after the shooting. His résumé was a string of jobs that mostly ended within a year, and a Hallowell, Maine, official saw so many red flags that he wouldn’t hire him as a local cop.
Even Tom Homan admitted on CNN that the man should never have cleared vetting. ICE, meanwhile, praised his nearly a decade of experience and “training.” Keep that last part in mind, because it’s about to age like buttermilk.
Today, the New York Times published a new report about Brouillette, which the Press Herald relayed. Back in 2021, Brouillette fired off a series of emails to his sister, furious that she was seeing a Colombian man. In one of them he told her the man could take his “third world luxuries” back to his own country. He went on to say that the man’s bloodline knows nothing about what it takes to earn America’s freedom, let alone cherish it.
Whenever I hear someone use the term “bloodline” these days, I automatically assume they’re an incel, a neo-Nazi, or both. Brouillette’s actions and history don’t do anything to dispel my assumptions.
Why is it that people who see themselves as part of some master race are always troglodytes like this? They’re never the brilliant, disciplined supermen they think they are. Instead, they’re guys who can’t hold down a job and have to lecture their sister about her taste in men.
Then there’s the training, or rather the lack of it. Two people told a NY Times reporter that Brouillette skipped ICE’s full training course in Georgia, apparently treating it the way a lot of us treated study hall in high school. Remember the statement ICE put out, the one about “training?” I guess by “training” they meant no training whatsoever. I guess DHS subscribes to the thinking that zero training is technically a type of training.
Another source told the NY Times that nobody had looked into Brouillette’s background by the time of the shooting, because the agency was sitting on an enormous backlog of those reports.
He also didn’t have full clearance, so he was locked out of some of ICE’s computer systems. Let me say that again. The agency didn’t trust him with certain databases, but it still saw fit to hand him a gun, a badge, and the authority to roll up on residential streets in small-town Maine and decide who lives and who doesn’t.
As far as I know, Brouillette’s still out there somewhere. Earlier reporting said he’d been placed on leave and was under internal investigation, but I haven’t seen a single word about him being fired, charged, or even disciplined.
So he could be riding a desk, or he could be working the streets right now in some other town that has no idea who just showed up.
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