I hope they fucking get all of the ice budget when they win.
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I know ICE can't handle mental health issues, but instead of getting assistance from mental health professionals they were lazy and drove her out to freeze to death. I'm sure the ice officers were extra warm in their SUV drive back to the facility. This just reads like abject cruelty by ICE
We need a lot more hammurabis code in the us legal system. Fine ICE, fire the leadership of the agents involved, and then for the agents, drop them in freezing conditions in light clothing 20 miles from help and see if they can survive the walk. If thats good enough treatment for the general public its good enough treatment or them. on second thought, drop their bosses off with them.
It's worse than that. She had a mental health crisis and what the article terms a "street incident". The article makes it clear that she was in crisis, visibly, and faced a strong language barrier.
So what happened to her? Not a hospital. Not care. She was put in a county jail. For SIX MONTHS.
THEN comes ICE. She's already spent six months in a confusing hellscape where even the cruelty is as ad-hoc and unstructured as everything else besides the actual routines of confinement.
Six. Fucking. Months.
After ICE did what they did...she didn't even wander. She was so broken, confused and lost that she just treated it as a continuation of her confinement:
Surveillance camera images show Michel at the bus shelter on Pittsburgh’s south side, sitting on the bench in daylight at first on 1 March, with a small, pale bag of belongings, still sitting there in darkness that evening, then slumped half upright on the ground and eventually lying on the ground the following morning.
She didn't even move from that spot. A human being in need of help, and they might as well have driven her and thrown in her a dumpster, it would have had the same effect.
ICE is only one piece of the course corrections required and very important, but the system practically killed her six months before they did the actual murder.
There's more than a couple of chuds in an SUV to just.
A human being in need of help, and they might as well have driven her and thrown in her a dumpster, it would have had the same effect.
I don't think ICE viewed her as human, sadly.
ICE needs to be treated like the criminal organisation it is, so many homicides and manslaughters. every agent responsible belongs behind bars.
Even the agents who aren’t responsible. They knew what organization they were joining.
just so people know, in case this is unfamiliar, cops have been doing this to indigenous women for decades, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, and near the black hills (Montana, the Dakotas). what ICE is doing is not new, it is an expansion of this violence to more target groups. i advocate for the abolishment of ICE because the USA's modern day slave catchers cannot be reformed. their existence has been engaged in the latin american genocide since they were established. further, though, i need people to understand that the abolishment of ICE will not represent an end but a beginning. we need societal reform beyond the elimination of just one racist police force
I was gonna say Starlight Tours are back I guess
But who are we kidding they probably never left
They would do it on the. Canadian prairies as well dropping first Nations people they pick up out at the edge of town with no winter gear. If they are lucky they just get frostbite.
Yep, the infamous "Starlight Tours".
Every officer involved in any of this should be fired on the spot, then also fired again but from a cannon.
If just one officer lost their pension over this the practice would end immediately. But theres no accountability for cops for much of anything. Never has been.
Every officer should take a starlight tour too.
Government kills woman and then gets off with a fine.
Finally the supervillains at ICE are really honing in on their kill method and keeping it apropos to their name.
Homicide means that the law considers it to be somebody's fault.
Pure evil
Tbh I'm surprised they didn't sprinkle crack dust to frame her