ICE Shootings Update, Swift Observatory Rescue, World Cup Final Preview

**Ayesha Rascoe** (0:02)
Two fatal shootings by immigration and customs enforcement officers this month.

**Scott Simon** (0:07)
The administration said ICE agents would stop conducting traffic stops, but then backtracked.

**Ayesha Rascoe** (0:12)
I'm Ayesha Rascoe.

**Scott Simon** (0:14)
And I'm Scott Simon, and this is Up First from NPR News.

**Ayesha Rascoe** (0:19)
The latest into the investigations of the fatal shootings by federal immigration agents in Texas and Maine.

**Scott Simon** (0:26)
And an unprecedented mission is underway to save a valuable space telescope that's falling into Earth.

**Ayesha Rascoe** (0:32)
And finally, a world champion in soccer will be crowned tomorrow in New Jersey. Will it be Argentina or Spain?

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**Ayesha Rascoe** (1:54)
Earlier this week, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a man in Maine.

**Scott Simon** (2:01)
It was the second deadly shooting by ICE officers this month.
Both of them started as traffic stops. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran has been covering both incidents and joins us now from Texas. Thanks for being with us.

**Sergio Martinez Beltran** (2:14)
Glad to be with you, Scott.

**Scott Simon** (2:16)
There's still many questions about what led the Immigration officers to take out their guns and kill these two men who were in their vehicles driving to work. But you bring us a new concern today.

**Sergio Martinez Beltran** (2:29)
Yes. The latest is that NPR has learned that the ICE officer who allegedly shot Joanne Duran Guerrero in Maine had a long history of violent behavior and struggles with serious mental health problems. That officer's name is David Brulead. NPR has reported he's an army veteran and former police officer. My colleague Vanessa Romo talked to Brulead's ex-wife, Ashley Brulead. She said for years she tried to warn the army and others that her former husband is troubled and abusive.

**Ashley Brulead** (2:59)
He hit me, choke me. And there was an incident where we had been fighting and I walked away and I got in the shower and he comes in with a gun and points it at me and tells me that he's going to blow my brains all over the bathtub.

**Sergio Martinez Beltran** (3:12)
There are no police reports from this incident, so NPR has not been able to independently corroborate Ashley Brule's accusations.
We've reached out to David Brule, but he has not responded. DHS got without naming the officer, said the agent involved had nearly a decade of law enforcement experience and had the required use of force training. There are also a lot of questions surrounding the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas. The father of three was also killed by federal immigration agents. Like the main shooting, Salgado Araujo was not the intended target of the ICE operation and no publicly available video evidence so far shows that either driver was clearly using their car as a weapon or threat as alleged by ICE.

**Scott Simon** (3:55)
Sergio, none of the immigration officers were wearing a body camera. If they had been, there would be footage that people could watch that would shed light on the case, wouldn't there?

**Sergio Martinez Beltran** (4:05)
Right. Five months ago, the Department of Homeland Security vowed to quickly send body cameras to every agent across the country, and yet that hasn't happened. Now the agency says that all of the ICE field offices will have body cameras in the next 60 days, so by September. Now it's important to note that ICE has been allocated an enormous amount of money, including $31 billion earmarked just for technology, including body cameras. So critics say that if body cameras had been a true priority for the administration, they would have figured out how to get them deployed to all agents sooner.