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    Death of a ‘nearly blind’ refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide.


    Death of a ‘nearly blind’ refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide.

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    1. Curiosities on

      >The agency has previously said that Shah Alam “showed **no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance**” when agents dropped him off Feb. 19 at a Tim Hortons restaurant north of Buffalo’s downtown.

      Being basically blind is not a disability requiring assistance now?

      > The agency said the establishment was chosen as a warm, safe location near his last known address.

      And they didn’t just take him home, why? Ugh.

      >The restaurant was closed at the time, Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan has said.

      ‘Warm and near home’ but also CLOSED

      The cruelty is infuriating and I hope these people are held accountable (though realistically I also know what world we’re in).

    2. hamilton_morris on

      Ever since George Floyd’s murder, Democrats and others on the left have sounded a steady drumbeat of demand for systemic reform, transparency, accountability. Or even abolish or defund. From that day to this, that language remains consistent.

      But you don’t get any of those things unless you’re in charge. What they need to be talking about is *taking control* of the nation’s security apparatus, seizing *power over* the police, ICE, the enforcement and compliance agencies and departments, *forcing* them to conform to your policies so that you can tell them what to do and punish them if the don’t do exactly as they’re told.

      The reason Republicans murder people in the street with impunity, put children in camps, raid homes and other countries, do an Army helicopter fly-by for Kid Rock is because they are *running* these institutions. Any ambition for doing things differently has to begin with taking the reins with your bare hands, driving out the loyalists, having an unbreakable desire to be the boss calling the shots. We have yet to hear a single Democratic politician say that they personally want to run ICE, but they should be absolutely desperate to. Because the alternative is to just keep asking and hoping for change.

    5. ThePenIsntMightier on

      If I recall correctly, the curtain rod that he was arrested for was what he used as his mobility aid.

    6. iftah_simsim on

      Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s imprisonment and death was arguably one of the worst things I have heard happen in this country in the past several months (very high bar too). the fact that he was using a curtain rod as a walking stick, the fact that he was held in detention for a year, the fact that his family felt it was safer for him to be in detention rather than be released on bail and risk him being apprehended and deported. and of course, the sick and inhumane way he was murdered. can you imagine dropping off a blind man who doesn’t speak english on a random street in Buffalo in the middle of winter at night??? it just boggles my mind the waves of cruelty Mr. Alam had to endure AFTER SURVIVING A GENOCIDE. just unbelievably disgusting. i hope his family has some measure of peace after this ruling, even though the chance of real accountability is slim in this hellscape.

    7. i_am_the_archivist on

      They did the same fucking thing in Pittsburgh back in Feb – dumped a woman having a mental health crisis in an unfamiliar neighborhood a multi-hour bus ride from home. It was 5*F the night she died.

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