The Hound | July 22
Hi there, It’s Wednesday. The family of David Brouillette — the ICE officer who shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine — told the Associated Press that he struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and a gun. His precise hiring circumstances remain unclear, but the revelation fits a pattern: an AP investigation earlier this year found that applicants with questionable histories were either not fully vetted or were hired despite their past. 🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover ICE's hiring surge not as a staffing story, but as a accountability crisis — one that asks how officers with violent histories are clearing background checks, who is responsible for vetting them, and what the consequences are when that process fails This is not a human interest story. It is a public safety and accountability story. An agency that has now killed more than a dozen people since Trump returned to office is simulta...
