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BREAKING: IT'S MURDER! Death of a 31-year-old woman dropped by ICE at a Pittsburgh bus stop in freezing weather with no coat ruled a homicide!
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death by hypothermia of Haitian immigrant Daphy Michel, who spent more than 30 hours shivering at a Pittsburgh bus stop after being dumped by ICE, a homicide.
Three days earlier, Michel had been in Washington County Jail on misdemeanor charges that a judge dismissed. Her family was waiting to pick her up in Charleroi – just a 40-minute drive away.
But because ICE had placed a detainer on her, instead of releasing her to loved ones, authorities handed her over to immigration enforcement.
ICE fitted her with an ankle monitor, put her in their “Alternatives to Detention” program, and then dropped her off on the South Side of Pittsburgh, far from home, in February cold, wearing only light clothing. She never made it back.
“When you release someone like that that far from home, it’s a recipe for disaster,” Her attorney Joseph Murphy said. “She would have been in her own environment. She wouldn’t have been sitting around a bus stop [with no coat] in February, and she’d be alive now.”
The death at the hands of ICE was no accident. It was the direct result of cold, bureaucratic cruelty, with immigration officials choosing enforcement theater over basic human decency.
County Executive Sara Innamorato said the death was “a tragedy that appears that with a little humanity, it could have been completely avoidable.”
After the death, friends and family gathered at the bus stop where she died and held a vigil for her (photo, right).
This horror is part of a pattern under Trump’s ICE that hasn’t dissipated since the agency has fallen from the headlines: they still treat people as disposable, and appear to get perverse satisfaction making life as difficult as possible for the people they harass, like dropping vulnerable individuals in unfamiliar places with no support.
Michel didn’t deserve to die alone in the cold on a bench because the system cared more about optics than people. Her death should haunt every official who signed off on this cruel process. Each one should be worried about the pendulum of justice swinging in their direction now that the ruling is official.
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No one should die abandoned in brutal winter's cold because ICE decided their life didn’t matter.
All nine tribes in South Dakota have put out a unified call to Congress to return public, federal lands in the Black Hills to tribal entities. https://t.co/aiXGCsEKPE
There is a tree in the Amazon, the Sumaúma (Ceiba pentandra), that can reach about 70 metres tall, rising above the forest canopy. It has massive buttress roots that spread like wings to stabilise it in shallow soil,
sometimes large enough to stand between.
📸 amyris /Amyris Fernandez
USS Liberty Was Supposed to Die at Sea
LBJ’s Washington Considered Sinking What Isræl Failed to Sink
Isræl attacked the USS Liberty. The ship survived.
That survival created the problem: “evidence”.
Journalists could photograph the damage.
Americans could see the holes, the blood, the torpedo wound, and the truth Isræl wanted buried.
So Washington discussed sinking the ship.
Only NSA resistance stopped it, as the declassified memo in this 🧵 shows.
Then LBJ faced the reality he could not escape:
If the ship survived, he would have to admit Isræl attacked America.
That is when the political blackmail began.
04:18 — Tom Hughes, Director of Intelligence and Research, State Department:
“This alarmed the Isræli embassy and their leading friends in the Jéwish organizations.”
They threatened LBJ with “blood libel.”
04:50 — Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former NSA Director:
“This was blackmail.”
Because LBJ needed campaign money, and the accusation could turn Jéwish donors against him.
The sailors survived Isræl.
Washington tried to bury what they exposed.
This 🧵 will show the full architecture:
NSA documents.
The attempted media blackout.
And the close proximity of Mathilde Krim — LBJ’s mistress and an Isræli spy — during the attack itself. 1/5 🧵
Reference stamp:
05:41 — Leaked Isræli HQ recording confirms they knew it was an American ship before the attack.
DON'T FORGET ABOUT JOYCE
Rep. Joyce Beatty was the only Kennedy Center board member who tried to stop Trump's rebranding of the arts center. She then challenged the move in court, and won her case.
She is the reason Trump's name came down!
Thank you Joyce !!!
One of the most painful images to come out of Gaza.
A child struggles to process the unimaginable after seeing his parents killed before his eyes in Gaza.
A touching farewell to the semitic Palestinian child: Amir Al-Bashiti (15) who was shot by the ‘israel’ occupation🇮🇱 while sleeping inside the displacement tent in south of the city of Khan Yunis, Gaza, occupied Palestine 🇵🇸
#EndIsraeliTerrorism
Video by @hani.alshaer
THE YOUTH ARE MORE THAN ALRIGHT
Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google
CEO Sundar Pichai's keynote address.
This is because of Google's contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.
Elon Musk is being given 715 acres of land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A lawsuit has been filed by numerous Conservation groups. They say it violates laws that are protecting refuges and harms endangered species. It’s on a National Historic Landmark.