The abomination that is the un-caring, un-knowing (and don’t care to know) downright despicable members of the team that dropped off a nearly blind Rohinga refugee fleeing from persecution who did not speak English, that they had been keeping in jail for months, at a business that was only open to drive through business.
It was a 911 happy homeowner that called police about a strange man on their doorstep with what seemed to them to be a weapon.
It wasn’t. It was the cane that Nurul Amin Shah Alam was using as an assistive device.
Because he was practically blind.
He was arrested after being tased and beaten because he couldn’t follow commands. Because he couldn’t speak English. He ended up in jail. And after he was picked up from jail by border patrol he was not sent to another facility.
They just dropped him off and bounced.
Five miles from he had last lived with his family.
No call to his family. Who had been afraid to bail him out because they would have lost him to the industrial complex that passes for detention centers in this country.
No call to his lawyer.
They told no one.
Five days later his body was found. In the winter cold and snow and ice.
He froze to death.
The most infuriating part?
The lies that have been told to us, the American public.
They lied about where they dropped him off. Instead bleating that it was a warm, safe location close to his home. That he couldn’t get into because they only did take out through the drive through.
There are 2 children who no longer have a father.
There is a wife who no longer has a husband.
There is a family that will miss him for the rest of their days.
Because he died after being horribly in custody and dropped off in a place that was unknown to him and that no one knew he was there.
This is unacceptable.
And we as American citizens should not stand for it.
He came here for help after fleeing genocide.
And the government as good as killed him. Through neglect.
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