this new era for Dunkin isn’t hitting for me. I keep finding myself going to other places

PB&J latte? all these random different colored drinks, all $7,

I’ve never seen a big brand miss so bad. Unless this is what people want? it’s almost not worth it to go at this point.

i actually havent been in months.

Is there anywhere in New England where I can see sea turtles on the beach/shore?

I was invited to see and take some photos in a cool historic house here in New Bedford

Mechanics lane a cool historic street here in New Bedford MA

Some Monochrome edits from recent walks

After abuse allegations surfaced against the ICE agent who fatally shot a Colombian immigrant in Maine last week, his second ex-wife released her first public comments about the case Saturday morning, detailing a longstanding pattern of coercion, control, and intimidation.
“If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes,” Lucinda Brouillette wrote in a statement to the Globe. “That belief is not based on speculation, but on my own lived experiences over many years.”
David Brouillette, an Army veteran and former Veterans Affairs police officer from Maine, has been publicly identified as the shooter. In recent days, his two ex-wives have also accused him of violent and threatening behavior, in court documents and interviews.
The revelations about Brouillette’s past come amid significant public outcry over the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on Monday outside his family’s Biddeford apartment. It is the latest fatal shooting by federal immigration officials since the Trump administration deployed thousands of new ICE agents as part of its nationwide immigration crackdown. Officials have said Durán Guerrero wasn’t the target of the operation they were carrying out. He was driving when an agent opened fire into the vehicle.
Lucinda Brouillette responded to a Globe request for comment Saturday — two days after she filed a request for a protective order, alleging David Brouillette had once threatened to kill her with a gun. That request followed many other similar applications for protection spanning several years.

The Globe obtained and reviewed hundreds of pages of court records, which detail a long history of serious allegations by Brouillette’s two ex-wives — and by Brouillette, himself — of abuse, harassment, and violence.
Both were acrimonious divorces dotted with claims and counter-claims, accusations of criminality, and protective orders, most of which were granted.
In his first divorce case starting in 2009, he was once granted a temporary order after he said his daughter suffered burns, bruises, and malnutrition under the care of his ex-wife, Ashley. The judge in their case described both partners as “extremely young” and said they both had suffered “troubled childhoods.”
Ashley Brouillette said in a recent interview with the Globe that he had choked her, slammed her to the floor, and once threw boiling water on her. She also said he called her Wednesday and admitted to his role in the shooting, saying it was justified because the driver was coming toward him.
He and Lucinda Brouillette also filed numerous competing applications for protective orders against one another. She accused Brouillette of a litany of abusive behavior toward her and their daughter, including throwing their belongings into a river and dumping spaghetti into their daughter’s hair. He accused her of physical abuse, and filed an order against her saying their daughter was picked up from his in-law’s house in dirty clothes and smelling of marijuana.
They were divorced in May 2019, court records show.
“I have feared for a long time that his anger, aggression, and escalating behavior would eventually result in severe, life threatening violence,” Lucinda Brouillette wrote in the statement. “I often believed I would be the one on the receiving end of it.”
David Brouillette has not responded to multiple requests for comment from the Globe. On Saturday, a phone number listed for Brouillette was out of service.
Federal officials have not publicly identified David Brouillette as the shooter. They’ve said agents tried to conduct a traffic stop after “an illegal alien departed the residence in a vehicle.” An officer discharged his weapon, “fearing for public safety” when the driver didn’t stop, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.
In her statement released Saturday, Lucinda Brouillette offered her “deepest condolences to the victims, their loved ones, and every person whose life has been forever changed by this tragedy.”
“For several days, I have watched these events unfold alongside the rest of the country,” she wrote. “I have intentionally been careful not to speculate about the incident itself. I was not there, I do not know exactly what happened, and I believe the facts should be determined by investigators and the justice system — not by public opinion.”
However, she said, David Brouillette often touted his military intelligence background and specialized skills.
“He frequently portrayed himself as someone who could manipulate people, deceive others, and stay in control of difficult situations,” she wrote. “Whether those statements reflected reality or were intended to intimidate me, they contributed to an environment of fear that made it even harder for me to believe I could safely stand up to him.”
She said she brought her concerns to law enforcement, the courts, and the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. Hundreds of pages of court records obtained by the Globe corroborate that statement.
In the records, she alleged that David Brouillette would show up to her house and work unannounced, had smashed her phone, broke her door frame, and threw her clothes into a river. “He is a police officer and constantly makes me feel like there is nothing I can do about it,” she wrote in a 2019 filing.
In another filing from January 2020, she said Brouillette had become “very erratic with his behavior — and has become severely obsessive,” calling her nearly 200 times in two days.
About a year later, she wrote that his oldest daughter returned from her weekend visits with him “in tears because of the emotional and mental and verbal abuse he inflicts on her.” He dumped an entire plate of spaghetti on her hair, and when the daughter asked him to stop, “he tackled her,” Lucinda Brouillette wrote. She said he needed counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
In her latest application for a protective order filed on Thursday, she said Brouillette had threatened her life with his gun. She also checked a box indicating she and her daughter were in “immediate and present danger of abuse by the defendant.” She said Brouillette owns a gun and a “bow or crossbow” and keeps the weapons at his home.
She requested sole custody of their daughter, writing that Brouillette contacting her was “exposing her to more damage and possible physical harm.”
A Maine judge ultimately denied the request, ruling the allegations were “insufficient to support a finding” that Brouillette posed an “immediate and present danger.”
In her statement, Lucinda Brouillette asked people to respect her family’s desire for privacy. She also said she hopes her words have an impact.
“For many years, I questioned whether anyone would believe what I had experienced. Seeing others with firsthand knowledge now come forward publicly has been deeply validating,” she wrote. “If there is one thing I hope comes from sharing my experience, it is that patterns of abuse, coercive control, intimidation, and manipulation are recognized and taken seriously before they escalate.”