Weeks after an illegal immigrant k*lled an off-duty cop on a Danbury road, the city council voted 18-2 to let lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients apply to become police officers. ⠀ On July 13, Melissa Esperanza Ramirez-Romero, 27, allegedly slammed into a Harley-Davidson on Sugar Hollow Road while drunk and high. Bridgeport Officer Cooper Whiteside, 38, a Danbury resident, and his girlfriend Brittany Islami, 34, d*ed at the scene. DHS confirmed Ramirez-Romero is in the country illegally and ICE lodged a detainer. ⠀ She faces two counts of second-degree manslaughter and DUI. That crash happened in the same city now expanding who can wear a badge. ⠀ Connecticut's POST Council already dropped the citizenship rule for green-card holders in 2020 and added DACA recipients in 2025. Police Chief Patrick Ridenhour said Danbury was only aligning with the state board and that background checks and training stay the same. ⠀ Democrat Joe Britton said the vote was timely after ICE raids and "sends a message to our immigrant community that you are welcome in Danbury." He also called those federal operations a "federal invasion." ⠀ The two no votes came from Republicans. DHS said the council should be thanking law enforcement for taking criminals off Connecticut streets, not vilifying them. ⠀⠀ #Danbury #Connecticut

EXPOSE HIM: A privileged DSA leader got fired for skipping his electrician job, then talked socialists into paying him $95K!! Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter, washed out of an IBEW Local 3 apprenticeship after failing to show up for work and classes for months. The union terminated him in March. A source close to the union said he never had a strong work record and took the slot “just for show.” Gordillo did not mention the firing when he and his co-chair made an emotional pitch to DSA members last month. They described the burden of national media attention after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win and claimed job-site interviews with an earpiece were too distracting. The rank-and-file approved $95,000 salaries plus benefits for both co-chairs. Meanwhile Gordillo lives in a nearly 2,000-square-foot Bed-Stuy row house his wealthy parents bought for just under $1 million through a limited liability company. He previously had his Lower East Side rent covered by the same family setup. The Yale literature student who never finished his degree now collects a near-six-figure socialist party salary while renovations continue on the family-funded home. This is the DSA in action: a trust-fund radical who couldn’t keep a blue-collar apprenticeship now gets paid by the movement to lecture everyone else about the working class. The hypocrisy writes itself. #DSA #SocialistHypocrisy