ICE notified Moore in late August that he was going to be fired and instructed him to come to the agency’s Philadelphia office, according to two federal officials who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. ICE had identified issues in his past, the officials said, including being fired from other law enforcement agencies.

The 38-year-old father of two had fought for his job when supervisors wanted to fire him in the past.

This time, he parked his car in a lot outside the office, and he had his gun. Law enforcement officers tried to stop him, but Moore eventually shot and killed himself, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/09/15/ice-is-quietly-firing-new-hires-one-recruit-it-was-devastating/

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      The likely scenario is that he had been fired from previous law enforcement jobs, probably for violent behavior, and this was his last chance. He eventually got violent enough in this job that he became a liability. Perhaps he was already involved in a bad situation. So given his past, it was best to end further liability.

      He understood that he was at the absolute end of his law enforcement career.

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        A lot of the ice officers were also hired without background checks and given a $50,000 bonus. Now they are being fired before the probation period ends and are required to pay back the $50k which, guess what? Probably has been spent

        Sounds like a trigger for some of these people taking their lives.

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      Sounds like a two-time loser. In his first job he arrested a jail captain(!) and was told to quit. He got another cop job in another town, but then:

      The Lower Frederick Township Board of Supervisors determined that he should be let go after he filed erroneous police reports, endorsed a vendor’s gear without permission, wore an unauthorized firearm and failed to appear at an alleged intoxicated driver’s court hearing, according to official township records filed in court.

      (His family disputes the allegations, naturally.)

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      Imagine wanting to work for ICE so bad that you off yourself when they don’t even want you…

      Are we supposed to feel bad for this guy? I’m confused…

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        If even ICE wants to fire you, and they take absolute dregs of society, then he should reevaluate his life choices.

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          My first thought was that he had taken a principled stance on something and they fired him for not being a big enough piece of shit, and then I read further and boy was I wrong…

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      ICE went on a massive hiring spree several months ago. There were like no background checks whatsoever. People could get hired online without much of any experience or credentials.

      It sounds like ICE may be starting to roll some of that back.

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    Didn’t the signing bonus hit after some months to a year on the job? Of course Trump and team would try to wlech on it as much as possible and fire people before bonuses got paid out.

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      5 years in ICE, and ICE wasnt planning on keeping them for 5 years anyways. they let it elapse under the next presidency.

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        Maybe their idea is that a democrat gets elected, cuts way back on ICE’s budget, and “fires” them, giving democrats the blame.

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          and then they vote for the right, notice the type of people also employed by ice, AA and hispanics, they want them angry. historically AA voted for dems.

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    A compilation of the greatest hits:

    When he was 18, his mother reported to police that he had driven her car without permission…

    Moore arrested an on-duty jail captain in May 2018 during a dispute over a prisoner.

    During one of their assignments together, he said, Moore shattered a car window to reach allegedly undocumented immigrants inside. “It was like, whoa, why did this guy break this window out?” the former officer said…

    A Ford truck traveling around 40 mph had struck the driver’s side of Moore’s blue Toyota Camry at around 5:15 a.m. … The report noted Moore had entered the roadway “improperly” and drove “carelessly.” …

    “Taking my credentials and gun makes me feel like a leper,” Moore wrote. “There’s no greater insult to a cop.”

    “People shouldn’t have to die for this.”

    That’s right, Good, Pretti, and hundreds of others should not have had to die for this.

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    The thugs are disposable, the real point of ICE is to funnel money to companies lie GEO group.

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      That and just being the means to an end without caring how we get there. ICE are being used as Gestapo agents to realign the population in the way that these fascists want it either through mass deportations, abductions or generally terrorizing the people they identify as undesirable. They don’t care about ICE itself, but more the end result that comes of it.

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    Wow, I’m sorry for the people who lost him but if that isn’t evidence that he should never have been given a gun I don’t know what is. We’re all just lucky he turned it on himself in a moment of dispair instead of someone else.

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    They have served their theatrical purpose for the fan base. They can be disposed of now.

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      Republicans will need a secret police even more. I think they’re just weeding out the amateurs, and hiring men who can be trained a little more, to use their brutality more efficiently.

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    Geez I hope there is at least some percentage of a way those kids end up okay.

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      Growing up watching your own dad be an evil sack of shit who made his own life terrible enough to end it by suicide…

      I could see that at least sending the message “don’t be an evil sack of shit”. Or it could traumatize them into following daddy’s footsteps… seems like these kinds of things tend to end in extreme good or extreme bad.