I'd say it's unbelievable but unfortunately, it all is too real. If ICE would tackle Alex Pretti, hold him down and murder him in cold blood, they would 100% drop a nearly-blind man off at a closed Tim Horton's and leave him to fend for himself. I hope Lady Karma and Lady Justice catch up with those bastards.
The depravity of these fuckers is incomprehensible. I hope they spend the rest of their miserable lives looking over their shoulders for the sword of Lady Justice.
So many bloody hands. From the initial arresting officers to ICE to the jail wardens to the covering up cops. The mayor may not be cooperating, but it sure seems Buffolo's cops are. Also bloody handed are the MAGA chuds themselves. We can never, EVER, ever let them forget that they helped murder people.
Ta, Dok. I'm too fucking horrified to watch the video. We attended Refugee Shabbat (an annual tradition) on Zoom tonight; I was one of the readers. Rabbi Lauren Grabbelle-Herrmann turned HIAS's mission statement into a poem called Prayer for Our Country, and I read it during the service. May Nurul Amin Shah Alam's memory always be a blessing, and may his death -- along with all the other ICE murders -- lead to real change.
I just cannot with this story. I certainly did not watch any of the videos either.
Even the locales are cruel.
Non-NY people, dig: Everyone knows where Buffalo is, and that it's a cruel bitch in the winter. But Batavia? Even a little bit further north, and relatively desolate. NO place for anyone in winter (It's about halfway btw Buffalo & Rochester)
Even worse...I lived a decade in the south (SC) and NOwhere in the south did I encounter ANY place as patently racist as Tonawanda, NY. Don't let the northeastern location fool you - this place is almost literally a fucking sundown town. Tonawanda makes Huntington Beach, CA look like a goddam Benneton commercial. Jesus.
Totally fuck the concept of 'the cruelty is the point.'
The inhumanity is the point. In my Vets transitional housing unit, one of the younger, taller, more muscular trooper neighbors overheard me talking about human right.
He said something from the peanut gallery about 30 feet away from where I was talking. "What?" I asked...
"Animals don't have rights. I'm joking."
And, I immediately thought, yeah, you monster, showing me what your lack of soul, heart and mind looks like: disturbingly disgusting!
Exactly. That's the tell with these inhumans. They think they're funny; they are not, full stop. They think they're insightful; they are not, full stop. They think we can't see into their hatred, their at-the-core insipidness... I cannot comprehend their alleged thought processes.
It gets misinterpreted, but I've said for 4 decades of my 6 decades life: I love humans and cannot stand people
Hailey has really bad cataracts. She can barely make out shapes in front of her. I guarantee, that if I left a 16-year-old, nearly blind dog out to fend for herself for days, they’re be howls of outrage in the community and rightly so.
That they did this to a human being is unconscionable. The cruelty is the point.
There’s always been a deep undercurrent of racism and cruelty in this country. There are stories about the torture slaves endured that would horrified even the most jaded among us. Groups like the KKK terrorized whole communities for almost a century. The Tulsa massacre.
Many of us thought that, after the civil rights movement, we had reached a consensus that such atrocities belonged in the past. We thought, at least the goobers who left Matthew Shepherd to die of exposure got justice. We’re now a society that holds people who commit atrocities accountable.
We were wrong.
Like a sleeping giant, the cruel underbelly was awakened by this regime. And it’s feeling empowered now. That’s why ICE and BP goons believe they can murder in broad daylight and get away with it.
And they’re right.
This will be remembered as a very dark period in American history. Ironically, the successors of Pedo 47 and Ron DeSleestak will strive to make it illegal to teach about this period in schools.
This has been a common practice with law enforcement, not just in the US. Queen Meábh posts about experiences she has had, and other people she knew had of being dumped without resources.
This book documents the disappearances and murders of indigenous men in northern provinces with this technique.
How could ANY human being, sane or not, do what they did to this poor soul? I don’t expect anybody, especially anyone from DHS, to admit to murder but the appalling treatment and ultimate murder cannot go unanswered.
We’re beyond just authoritarian rule…these people have complete ‘unrestricted authority and freedom to act at their own discretion’. We’ve seen it with the murders in Minnesota and elsewhere. Now this and who knows how many more that are unreported,
This poor man…eternal shame on those responsible and those with the power to stop this shit and, instead, look the other way.
We have the equivalent of Nazi concentration and death camp prison guards working for our government. They’d be just as bad, if they thought they could get away with it.
This is the most disturbing thing about Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign.
Eventually those same people will insist that it wasn't Zyklon B, and all those corpses are just napping, after ICE generously offered them a ride to the camp.
I'd say it's unbelievable but unfortunately, it all is too real. If ICE would tackle Alex Pretti, hold him down and murder him in cold blood, they would 100% drop a nearly-blind man off at a closed Tim Horton's and leave him to fend for himself. I hope Lady Karma and Lady Justice catch up with those bastards.
The depravity of these fuckers is incomprehensible. I hope they spend the rest of their miserable lives looking over their shoulders for the sword of Lady Justice.
So many bloody hands. From the initial arresting officers to ICE to the jail wardens to the covering up cops. The mayor may not be cooperating, but it sure seems Buffolo's cops are. Also bloody handed are the MAGA chuds themselves. We can never, EVER, ever let them forget that they helped murder people.
Possibly apropos: TCM is running "Judgment at Nuremberg" again tonight. They seem to have been doing that a lot, lately. Good on them for it.
This story makes me physically sick, and if I try to comment on it, I'll be banned from this site for life.
Ta, Dok. I'm too fucking horrified to watch the video. We attended Refugee Shabbat (an annual tradition) on Zoom tonight; I was one of the readers. Rabbi Lauren Grabbelle-Herrmann turned HIAS's mission statement into a poem called Prayer for Our Country, and I read it during the service. May Nurul Amin Shah Alam's memory always be a blessing, and may his death -- along with all the other ICE murders -- lead to real change.
This resembles deliberate murder. I wonder why that could be.
I just cannot with this story. I certainly did not watch any of the videos either.
Even the locales are cruel.
Non-NY people, dig: Everyone knows where Buffalo is, and that it's a cruel bitch in the winter. But Batavia? Even a little bit further north, and relatively desolate. NO place for anyone in winter (It's about halfway btw Buffalo & Rochester)
Even worse...I lived a decade in the south (SC) and NOwhere in the south did I encounter ANY place as patently racist as Tonawanda, NY. Don't let the northeastern location fool you - this place is almost literally a fucking sundown town. Tonawanda makes Huntington Beach, CA look like a goddam Benneton commercial. Jesus.
Totally fuck the concept of 'the cruelty is the point.'
The inhumanity is the point. In my Vets transitional housing unit, one of the younger, taller, more muscular trooper neighbors overheard me talking about human right.
He said something from the peanut gallery about 30 feet away from where I was talking. "What?" I asked...
"Animals don't have rights. I'm joking."
And, I immediately thought, yeah, you monster, showing me what your lack of soul, heart and mind looks like: disturbingly disgusting!
That he felt he needed to tack on I'm joking showed he was not at all joking
Exactly. That's the tell with these inhumans. They think they're funny; they are not, full stop. They think they're insightful; they are not, full stop. They think we can't see into their hatred, their at-the-core insipidness... I cannot comprehend their alleged thought processes.
It gets misinterpreted, but I've said for 4 decades of my 6 decades life: I love humans and cannot stand people
Hailey has really bad cataracts. She can barely make out shapes in front of her. I guarantee, that if I left a 16-year-old, nearly blind dog out to fend for herself for days, they’re be howls of outrage in the community and rightly so.
That they did this to a human being is unconscionable. The cruelty is the point.
What have we become?
There’s always been a deep undercurrent of racism and cruelty in this country. There are stories about the torture slaves endured that would horrified even the most jaded among us. Groups like the KKK terrorized whole communities for almost a century. The Tulsa massacre.
Many of us thought that, after the civil rights movement, we had reached a consensus that such atrocities belonged in the past. We thought, at least the goobers who left Matthew Shepherd to die of exposure got justice. We’re now a society that holds people who commit atrocities accountable.
We were wrong.
Like a sleeping giant, the cruel underbelly was awakened by this regime. And it’s feeling empowered now. That’s why ICE and BP goons believe they can murder in broad daylight and get away with it.
And they’re right.
This will be remembered as a very dark period in American history. Ironically, the successors of Pedo 47 and Ron DeSleestak will strive to make it illegal to teach about this period in schools.
This has been a common practice with law enforcement, not just in the US. Queen Meábh posts about experiences she has had, and other people she knew had of being dumped without resources.
This book documents the disappearances and murders of indigenous men in northern provinces with this technique.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/139667/starlight-tour-by-susanne-reber-robert-renaud/9780679313083
So sorry. 😢
Christ, this hurts to the core.
How could ANY human being, sane or not, do what they did to this poor soul? I don’t expect anybody, especially anyone from DHS, to admit to murder but the appalling treatment and ultimate murder cannot go unanswered.
We’re beyond just authoritarian rule…these people have complete ‘unrestricted authority and freedom to act at their own discretion’. We’ve seen it with the murders in Minnesota and elsewhere. Now this and who knows how many more that are unreported,
This poor man…eternal shame on those responsible and those with the power to stop this shit and, instead, look the other way.
We have the equivalent of Nazi concentration and death camp prison guards working for our government. They’d be just as bad, if they thought they could get away with it.
This is the most disturbing thing about Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign.
Lots of idiots are insisting he wasn’t blind?
Eventually those same people will insist that it wasn't Zyklon B, and all those corpses are just napping, after ICE generously offered them a ride to the camp.
the venn on that one is a full circle
God damn America.