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ICE Murder Or Self Defense?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by pgabriel, Jan 8, 2026.

  1. Rocket River

    Rocket River Member
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    of course

    The reality seems to random
    Like they get bored and just want to Harrass people
    They hope it gets testy so they can start shooting

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  2. B-Bob

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    2nd?? Um.
     
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  3. Amiga

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  5. Amiga

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    Likely more

    and we have not at all been able to see what's going on in these pop-up privately-run massive detention centers. Dozens have died there already. ~50+
     
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    only reason they’re halting stops now is because this is potentially very damaging to Susan Collins re-election campaign, and if ICE fcks up again which is likely because people are angry and will confront them, then they can write off that Senate seat entirely
     
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  7. Buck Turgidson

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    Yes, same with "local control"
     
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    I am skimming through the last couple of pages but wanted to respond to this.

    The point of what ICE is doing now is to spread fear. This was very obvious in Minnesota and something that Trump, Miller et al essentially admitted to. It was to frighten not just “illegal immigrants” but legal immigrants in a state where many of Trump’s political opponents were.

    As such the masks, the heavy weapons, brutality is the point. That they could show up at any time including using deception is the point. I saw this first hand in Minneapolis.
     
  9. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    Well, for those keeping score at home, I wasn't even close.

    We have at least 17 Mexican citizens who have died on American soil, via the hands of ICE, just since the inauguration of Orange Blob II.

    https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/americas/mexicans-deaths-ice-custody-operations-latam-intl

    Never mind the others. SMDH.
     
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  10. Reeko

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    ICE under the Trump regime isn’t even really going after criminals…they’re targeting farm workers, landscapers, restaurant workers, Doordashers and Uber Eats workers, people leaving their immigration hearing at the courthouse, etc

    this guy in Maine and the man in Houston were doing nothing but trying to provide for their family…that’s it

    young man had a wife and recent newborn just trying to give them a better life, and he wasn’t even the right person that ICE was targeting

    they’re not really going after gang members, human traffickers, drug dealers, weapons smugglers…they’re going after the 50 y/o fruit stand lady
     
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    #131 astros123, Jul 15, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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  12. Rocket River

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    They are a bunch of cowardly bullies
    They will NOT go after anyone they think will fight back
    Waiting for Mexican RAMBO to stand up to them

    Rocket River
     
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    The federal immigration agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford has been identified as David Michael Brouillette.

    Brouillette, who is 37 and lives in Manchester, was identified by an ex-wife as the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

    Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls that Ashley Brouillette said she received from her ex-husband via his current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

    “He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

    She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and told him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

    “In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.


    David Brouillette has held multiple jobs in law enforcement and public safety in Maine. He’s also a licensed real estate agent and a veteran.

    He has not responded to several requests for comment and a cell phone number for him was disconnected Thursday afternoon. An attempt to reach Brouillette at his home was unsuccessful. His address is down a long dirt road with a no trespassing sign.

    Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about David Brouillette’s mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.

    Brouillette was hired as an officer for the Togus Police Department at the VA in 2017, according to records from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. He was still working there in 2021, according to court records from a legal dispute with another ex-wife, who he married after separating from Ashley Brouillette.

    Brouillette told a judge, during a matter involving child support payments, that he was working as a truck driver before January 2025 when he said he had to resign due to health concerns. Brouillette had also reported plans to work as an independent contractor and that he was doing real estate work, according to a judge’s order.

    In 2024 and 2025, he was a volunteer firefighter in Manchester. He worked there for two short stints across only a matter of months before he was “removed” after several spats with department leadership, according to former and current staff. His tenure included a shouting match, staff said, and refusal to follow superiors’ orders.

    Brouillette appears to be the second Maine resident and federal immigration officer who has shot someone during enforcement operations.

    Last year, Charles Exum, an agent for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shot and injured a woman in Chicago. Exum was identified through court records in a criminal case against the woman. Federal agents accused her of trying to hit them with their car. Prosecutors dismissed the case after her attorney questioned the agents’ credibility, highlighting texts Exum had sent to other officers, bragging about his marksmanship.
     
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    "struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets"

    "a history of terrifying and violent behavior"

    "he was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder "

    It took AP only a few days. ICE, with billions in dollars in funding, apparently has a hiring practice that is world class.
     
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  16. Amiga

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    If you believe ICE does not have that intention, know that it is run so well that it is, in effect, spreading fear.
     
  17. SamFisher

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    Latest ICE murderer was mentally ill individual with long history of criminal behavior, PTSD and domestic violence resulting in multiple involuntary hospitalizations

    Trump, Vance, Miller, Homan and Senator Susan Collins gave this man a gun, a check from your tax dollars and told him to go kill Mainers - and he did.
     
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  18. Amiga

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    Going after a Chinese human rights lawyer who entered in the U.S. legally with a clear easy claim of asylum.

    Guys, I'm pretty sure this is making the U.S. safer. China too.

    EDIT - As usual, it's from the top; ICE being told to hit quota is the same as a Sheriff saying "I need 100 tickets today" - you start ticketing people for nothing just to hit the number.

    ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian

    A Chinese human rights lawyer has been arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), raising concerns he could be deported to China where he would face persecution.

    Wu Shaoping fled China at the end of 2019 amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers. He travelled to the US on a tourist visa and made an asylum claim in 2020, for which he is still awaiting a decision.

    In the US, he found work as an Amazon courier while remaining active in China’s embattled human rights community.

    On Wednesday, Wu was stopped by ICE officers the Mount Holly Springs borough in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, while delivering parcels.

    According to an account relayed through Shi Minglei, a friend who spoke to him in detention on Thursday, ICE officers asked Wu to provide proof of his citizenship. Wu presented proof of his pending asylum application and explained that he had entered the country legally.

    However, ICE agents arrested him and took him to a detention facility in Pennsylvania. The facility and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to an immediate request for comment outside of US working hours.
     
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    Just reading a blurb from the article is scary as hell that this guy was approved by ICE. Makes you wonder about so many more guys like that are pulling over, terrorizing, and killing immigrants.

    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 steal 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.”

    Crazy as it may sound, this is only some of what is revealed in this article. Brouillette sounds like a deeply disturbed and dangerous person.
     
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    ICE Officers at Maine Shooting Scene Were Wearing Body Cameras. They Were Not Turned On.
    ICE officers were wearing body cameras they can’t turn on, four sources said. The Trump administration said there was no footage.

    Karl Loftus
    The Intercept
    July 16 2026, 2:05 p.m. ET

    Federal officers at the scene of a killing by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine were wearing body cameras, according to four ICE officials who reviewed images from the scene — but the cameras are on multi-function devices that ICE officers use as radio mics.

    After an ICE officer shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian national this week in Biddeford, Maine, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin reportedly told Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, that officers involved in the shooting were not wearing body cameras.

    Yet the ICE officials who spoke with The Intercept, all of whom requested anonymity to protect their livelihoods, identified cameras among the equipment worn by two ICE officers nearby in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

    The body-worn devices were not designed solely to capture evidential video, and are used primarily as remote microphones for ICE officers’ radio communications. (ICE did not respond to a request for comment.)

    ICE officials who spoke to The Intercept identified the accessories worn by ICE officers on the scene of the Maine shooting as Motorola SVX Video Remote Speaker Microphones, a wireless radio mic with one other important feature: a camera. (Motorola did not respond to a request to comment.)

    Although the Motorola SVX worn by ICE officers are designed to work as body cameras, the ICE official said the function isn’t used.

    “They have multiple functionalities,” one ICE official who identified the Motorola SVX at the scene in Maine told The Intercept. “However, we are currently only using them as mics because of the AXON contract.”

    The Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, purchases body-worn cameras through a contract with Axon, a law enforcement tech firm. (Axon did not respond to a request for comment.)

    Another ICE official showed The Intercept where, on their own Motorola SVX, a cover can be attached to the top of the device where the camera lens is, comparing it to the tech worn by officers at the Maine shooting scene.

    “This is where the cover clips over the camera lens,” the second ICE officer said. “Since the cameras don’t work they just leave the cover on.”

    The SVX mics worn by ICE are designed to record internally, capable of storing over 100 hours of standard-definition video, according to Motorola promotional materials and a technical support line. The video-recording function on the SVX mic, however, requires a subscription.
     
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