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News & Current Events Apr 1, 2026 at 7:48 PM

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide

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Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
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Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
Medical examiners have ruled that the death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, five days after Border Patrol left him at a Buffalo, New York, doughnut shop, was a homicide.
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igetproteinfartsHELP Apr 1, 2026 +7782
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
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rocknrollstalin Apr 1, 2026 +3736
Also have to point out that the Tim Hortons doors were locked because the dining area was closed. Nobody notified his lawyer or his family.
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immortalyossarian Apr 1, 2026 +1718
Wasn't it also like the middle of the night or something?
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LeLefraud Apr 1, 2026 +2673
Middle of the night, below freezing, didnt contact anybody, and the "safe/warm place" they dropped him at was locked and closed
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Ill_Emphasis3927 Apr 1, 2026 +1408
If it's the one I'm thinking of, and it would be horrifying if it's not because that would mean this has happened multiple times, then they picked him up claiming he had a weapon when he had a shower curtain rod he was using as a cane. Every death in ICE custody should be investigated as a homicide, 17 so far in just 2026. If you can't keep people from dying in your care, you're killing them.
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Vicorin Apr 1, 2026 +712
Correct, he was using a curtain rod as a cane, got lost and either on accident or possibly asking for directions, ended up on someone’s front porch who called the police. Cops showed up, he couldn’t understand English well enough to comply with their orders, so they beat and tased him. The curtain rod had been deemed a weapon and would not have been given back. No mention of whether they gave him a proper cane, but I doubt it. Hope they lock those pigs up for a long time.
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rylosprime Apr 1, 2026 +321
> Hope they lock those pigs up for a long time Won't happen. Worst they'll get is a paid vacation and a pension provided by the taxpayers.
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sabrenation81 Apr 1, 2026 +171
Probably not but there may be a chance here. Buffalo has a new mayor, ICE/CBP is VERY unpopular, and that mayor has been trying to appeal to the left wing. He's getting clobbered right now because he has to do some very unpopular things to address our massive budget deficit. He might view this as an opportunity to shift attention away from the budget deficit by encouraging the DA to go after these guys in a pretty cut-and-dry homicide case. It'll still be something being done for the sake of "bread and circuses" rather than righting a wrong but at this point I'll take it.
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Kjartanski Apr 1, 2026 +31
Feds will never hand over their own
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gremlinsarevil Apr 2, 2026 +32
Homicide is a state crime, not federal.
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Local_Web_8219 Apr 1, 2026 +27
Well then it sounds like the taxpayers should take a page out of the past and assemble lawfully and protest on the public streets outside their homes until they leave the jurisdiction. I hope they continue to do so every day so they may never get peace again.
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tomas_shugar Apr 1, 2026 +5
ICE love Frank. They should push for meeting Mr. Castle.
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Shamanigans Apr 1, 2026 +52
17, that we know we can confirm and they will cop to. Call it paranoid but I don’t exactly trust an institution that lies and shields murderers.
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PsyOpBunnyHop Apr 1, 2026 +22
> 17 so far in just 2026 ...that we are told about. Who knows how many are swept under the rug.
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NZNoldor Apr 1, 2026 +60
You're not counting all the missing prisoners/hostages/victims in the camps.
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OpenGrainAxehandle Apr 1, 2026 +12
> 17 so far in just 2026 And we're not even 17 weeks into 2026.
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PhazePyre Apr 1, 2026 +14
Exactly. At the bare minimum, negligent homicide.
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ragnaroksunset Apr 1, 2026 +531
So they tortured him to death.
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sabrenation81 Apr 1, 2026 +490
Yes. They left a blind, disabled elderly refugee alone in single digit temperatures, 5 miles from his home and didn't notify anyone where he was. He froze to death. Don't let them use sanitized language to whitewash what happened here. Those CBP assholes knew exactly what they were doing. They intentionally killed a man in one of the cruelest ways available to them. Throw the book at them. EDIT: to correct temperature, I was thinking of the week after (the week they found the body) that we had subzero temps. The weather they left him in was still not suitable for human life, especially for a person with limited mobility, but it wasn't subzero, more around the 5-10 degree F range.
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KingToasty Apr 1, 2026 +114
This is absolutely an established way cops kill people across the world. "Oh we didn't KNOW he'd die, go investigate it" and bam they have a legal buffer to kill anyone they think won't have enough people to go looking.
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IAmTheGoomba Apr 2, 2026 +4
Ever see the movie "Collateral"? "I didn't kill him. The bullets and the fall killed him." That is exactly the mentality these pigs have.
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OhReallyVernon Apr 2, 2026 +4
Yep. Look up Saskatoon, SK
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Kosba2 Apr 1, 2026 +76
> but it wasn't subzero, more around the 5-10 degree F range. Even if we don't use the demented American subzero which is in Fahrenheit, it being a very simple BELOW FREEZING was enough of a threshold to break.
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socialistrob Apr 1, 2026 +13
Also the man didn't speak English so he couldn't ask people for help. He had been arrested previously when he went up to a person's door to try to get help and they couldn't understand him so they called the police.
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sabrenation81 Apr 1, 2026 +20
Oh 100% agreed on both fronts friend. I've been through it enough to know that disingenuous MAGA freaks will immediately seize on any inconsistency no matter how irrelevant, to distract from the facts. Just getting ahead of that and making the correct before one has the chance. Also American measurement systems are f****** stupid and it annoys me to no end that we doggedly refuse to convert to the clearly better system(s) because some among us think our incomprehensibly stupid and outdated ones make us somehow superior.
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mdxchaos Apr 1, 2026 +3
Highway of tears.
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Main-Requirement-521 Apr 1, 2026 +6
I'd rather be shot in the street 
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masnosreme Apr 1, 2026 +67
Reminds me of [starlight tours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_tours) and I expect there will be just as little justice as was the case there.
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invaderzim257 Apr 1, 2026 +85
This is just like the Canadian police driving indigenous people out to the middle of nowhere and dropping them off on the side of the road to freeze to death
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Strong-Raspberry5 Apr 1, 2026 +19
That was my first thought to. It wasn’t in any way accidental, it’s a well established part of the play book.
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WrecklessMagpie Apr 1, 2026 +15
They do that to Indigenous people in the US too unfortunately
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invaderzim257 Apr 1, 2026 +19
they probably do it to anybody who isnt white in the US, probably why so many missing people are minorities
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pornalt4altporn Apr 1, 2026 +19
So they abandoned him on the street. It's worth emphasising the truth. They did exactly what they are forbidden from doing and it lead to the consequence the law is intended to prevent.
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Mexican_Fence_Hopper Apr 1, 2026 +13
In the middle of the f****** cold. They tortured him to death. Say the whole truth.
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PixieStyx8 Apr 1, 2026 +11
And he didn't have shoes
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Worldly-Stranger7814 Apr 1, 2026 +7
Wasn't that a thing some cops did with Indians and Eskimos?
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Jafooki Apr 2, 2026 +4
They're called Starlight Tours and it's a huge issue in Canada
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VoidOmatic Apr 1, 2026 +6
They knew it was locked too. I can't wait until their text messages come out. "We can just say we didn't know if anything ever comes of this lol and he'll wander off so we can bring another brown from downtown lomao"
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Lexi_Banner Apr 1, 2026 +53
And winter weather - he froze to death.
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A1000eisn1 Apr 1, 2026 +29
The article says it was closed.
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Shawwnzy Apr 1, 2026 +235
Canadian police were infamous for murdering indigenous people by abadoning them in the freezing cold in the middle of nowhere. "Starlight Tours". Ironic ICE is doing the same thing outside of a shitty Canadian donut shop.
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ShiraCheshire Apr 1, 2026 +31
This is a really important detail that got left out of earlier news stories. They made it seem like they'd dropped him off at a public place with heat and people around if he needed help. Instead they dropped him off at a closed, locked building with no way to call for help.
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PhazePyre Apr 1, 2026 +21
I was so confused. I was like "when the f*** is this happening in Canada" then was like oh right, northern states have some Timmies.
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IlexSonOfHan Apr 1, 2026 +10
We have them down south also. There's one right down the street from me, here in Georgia.
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PhazePyre Apr 1, 2026 +5
Yeah, if only you could have tried it when it was Canadian owned and good. That was prime.
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matunos Apr 2, 2026 +3
Also, he had been held in jail for a year, after Buffalo police charged him with assault for resisting them taking his curtain rod, which he apparently used as a white cane, because he didn't understand what they were demanding of him since he didn't speak their language.
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twenafeesh Apr 1, 2026 +689
Absolutely hateful. It seems an *awful lot* like the CBP brownshirts were trying to make sure they never made it home. 
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IntelligentStyle402 Apr 1, 2026 +142
Trumps ICE goons are actually Nazi Gestapos.
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Remarkable-Shirt5696 Apr 1, 2026 +13
No, the gestapo are the ones you aren't seeing collecting information on you and silently stalking you until you're entrapped so that they can molest abuse you and use you to further their narrative.  Maybe like Einsatzgruppen but more like Order Police (Ordnungspolizei)
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spoonclash77 Apr 1, 2026 +88
“Ruled a homicide” feels like the absolute bare minimum when agents dumped a nearly blind refugee in 20°F. At this point, every Border Patrol custody transfer should be on bodycam, no exceptions.
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woodst0ck15 Apr 1, 2026 +21
And this is why I’m not for ANYONE going to the states especially if they’re visiting. This guy was a refugee trying to get a better life and was treated with such little care and so much disdain they couldn’t even give him any form of care. If Border Patrol and ICE are doing this kind of shit, no one is safe even if they’re white as some Canadian had died and he was a Trump supporter.
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new-aged Apr 1, 2026 +145
I know I’ll catch flak here but let me help those that may not understand… Manner of death is different than cause of death. Homicide does not immediately indicate murder. So, if a prosecutor chose to prefer charges in this homicide case, the most we would probably see is negligent manslaughter due to the duty to act of CBP when choosing to leave him there. Murder requires premeditation and itd be near impossible to prove.
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Snakend Apr 1, 2026 +204
homicide simply means a person killed this person.
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new-aged Apr 1, 2026 +40
Thank you. I posted mainly for those who immediately think murder charges should be brought.
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Willing_Image1933 Apr 1, 2026 +21
This could be a murder 3 in the states that recognize it
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carlitospig Apr 1, 2026 +23
I’m okay with a manslaughter charge. ANYTHING in that direction is helpful because we are trying to slow ICE down. Having them all terrified to be locked in prison is beneficial to humanity.
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Incognonimous Apr 1, 2026 +33
Gross negligent to the point of malicious action should be a thing
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bigEzMcGee Apr 1, 2026 +36
It is, this person is not a lawyer. You can be convicted of murder based on reckless (not premeditated or even intentional) conduct, including in new york. It's referred to as depraved heart murder. Hence why the father of the school shooter in Georgia was convicted of murder even though there's no question he didn't intentionally kill anyone, much less with any premeditation.
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Syssareth Apr 1, 2026 +11
Negligent homicide is what you're talking about, and it's the same thing as negligent manslaughter. Either the other commenter said "manslaughter" to highlight the difference between it and murder, or they're from the UK. (It's called negligent homicide in the US, gross negligent manslaughter in the UK. [According to Wikipedia,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligent_homicide) at least.)
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PuckSenior Apr 1, 2026 +9
I generally agree. But in this case it might have some significance. He died in the cold. It wouldn’t be abnormal to list cause of death as exposure to cold. Saying it is homicide does carry some additional weight.
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Synectics Apr 1, 2026 +6
Kinda like, if you dangle someone over the edge of a cliff, make sure they have a hand-hold, and then walk away... sure, gravity and a sudden stop were the cause of death, but you know why that happened, and it is an easy argument that the one who hung them is to blame.
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igetproteinfartsHELP Apr 1, 2026 +25
I honestly don’t expect charges to be brought against these agents. Trump and JD Vance have repeatedly stated that these agents are “immune”. I’m hoping state charges could be brought but still skeptical
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Spicy_Tac0 Apr 1, 2026 +14
But they're not, and should be held accountable...
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Jasoman Apr 1, 2026 +9
should be a hate crime.
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Lonely_Noyaaa Apr 1, 2026 +1671
> The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office said the death was caused by complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer, precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. He didn't die quickly. A perforated ulcer compounded by days of exposure and dehydration is an extended and agonizing way to go. He was found near a sports arena, several miles from where he was left, with no explanation of how he got there or how long he had been there and that timeline needs to be accounted for.
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linds360 Apr 1, 2026 +481
Jfc. I didn’t want to know this, but I’m glad I do. May the image of him haunt those ICE agents for the rest of their miserable lives. Edit: I get it, ICE agents have no conscience. No f****** shit, Sherlock. My comment was a wish sent into the ether. You can cool it on telling me all the reasons it won’t happen. I’m good, thanks.
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pfannkuchen89 Apr 1, 2026 +227
They would have to have a sense of empathy or remorse if it were to haunt them. People that sign up to be ICE agents get off on this shit.
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SGT_Squirrelly Apr 1, 2026 +52
To quote one of the fucks who shot Pretti: "it's just like Call of Duty". These American Brownshirts (y'know, the ol' SA of early Nazi Germany) don't see others as people, just characters in a game. It's absolutely disgusting.
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icevenom1412 Apr 2, 2026 +3
Trump's ICE recruits have no conscience. The ICE that were hired long before that were just like cops, some following the law, while other abused it. Trump's recruiting drive made sure that pretty much all of them now are ignoring the law.
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1egg_4u Apr 1, 2026 +67
Im not trying to foist the blame off the police here but part of me feels sick knowing this guy probably was *clearly* in distress and couldnt find someone to help him Like... are we just bad at recognizing people who need help? Is it something more cynical? I want to believe there is a world where if this happens that a lost blind man would be able to find *one* person who would ask "hey are you lost" or be be able to approach someone and ask for help Idk. Maybe im reading too far into it.
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RemarkableGround174 Apr 1, 2026 +84
He probably looked much like a homeless person, and the cops don't do anything except tell them to move along. That's the problem with having groups of people it's deemed ok not to care about, anyone can become one.
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1egg_4u Apr 1, 2026 +24
The people who punch down on homeless people the hardest probably dont even care that people living on the streets are at an exponentially higher risk than anyone else for being violently attacked and are constantly preyed upon as such because theyre considered less than human by so many Like... none of us will never be in as much danger as that person sleeping on the street is night after night. The statistics for sexual and physical violence are sickening, it isnt a wonder so many cope any way they can.
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SewSewBlue Apr 2, 2026 +21
Remember this was middle of the night, in 20 deg F weather. In inappropriate clothing. Blind and not knowing where to go. I don't think there would be enough people around to help someone at night in distress before he succumbed. Best to focus on the depravity of those that did that to a blind man, rather than focus the lack of action for people that may not have existed.
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1egg_4u Apr 2, 2026 +12
He was found miles away days later... this didnt happen overnight. It should never have happened in the first place but it is also up to us to actually look after each other when things like this happen because they will be happening more now
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WontArnett Apr 1, 2026 +38
So, who’s getting life in prison for this sh*t? Because this is beyond despicable.
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AncientSith Apr 1, 2026 +19
Not to worry. No one will be punished.
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kaisadilla_ Apr 2, 2026 +3
And if they are, they'll chill in prison for a month before Trump pardons them.
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bonsaibiddy Apr 1, 2026 +1598
"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." Is being blind not a disability requiring special assistance?
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socialistrob Apr 1, 2026 +754
Also he didn't speak English so he couldn't ask a passerby for help nor was the Tim Hortons even open. Shoving a blind, elderly man without a cane who doesn't speak English into a parking lot in sub zero temperatures is a surefire way to kill him.
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VegasRoomEscape Apr 2, 2026 +143
Sounds like a class "starlight ride" like cops like to do. Drop someone somewhere you know they can't survive. Traditionally its hundreds of miles away from help in the middle of nowhere.
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RollingToast Apr 2, 2026 +67
Sounds like one because that’s exactly what this is.
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LilArtsyCreature Apr 2, 2026 +34
100% If it looks like a "Starlight Tour" and sounds like a "Starlight Tour" it's because it is one. Cops and their ilk love a Hands-off Homicide via "Mother Nature" because then they can claim it was all bad luck and/or the conditions killed their victim therefore they can get away scotfree. I'm glad this case is actually being ruled as a Homicide, I hope the family can get justice someway somehow.
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IOnlyReplyToIdiots42 Apr 1, 2026 +355
Why is that even mentioned. As a healthy young adult it would still be fucked up to be left in the freezing cold
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MimicoSkunkFan2 Apr 2, 2026 +91
Exactly. However the USA is a very jingoist country so it's important to show he had extra issues that meant his death wasn't his own fault for being brown and foeign.
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longlivenewsomflesh Apr 2, 2026 +11
"he was no angel"
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BSB8728 Apr 2, 2026 +18
And he was wearing those booties that people get in jail — not snow boots or even shoes!
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Nicholas-Steel Apr 1, 2026 +55
Of course not, being blind gives you insane echo location capability like Daredevil.
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kaisadilla_ Apr 2, 2026 +17
> dropped him off Feb. 19 at a Tim Hortons restaurant Dropped him in the parking lot of a closed Tim Hortons restaurant*. They are telling in as if he was left in the comfort of a restaurant when he was abandoned in the streets in front of a closed building.
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toxcrusadr Apr 1, 2026 +26
In the case of abduction, they have the ability to shut down that whole blindness thing.
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Flash_ina_pan Apr 1, 2026 +1623
For anyone wondering the temp that night was 20°F
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themagpie36 Apr 1, 2026 +1185
For anyone wondering that's -7°c
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zokka_son_of_zokka Apr 1, 2026 +27
Picking up trips from the Canadian cops, I see
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Thin_Art_6475 Apr 1, 2026 +15
snow and wind?
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Distryer Apr 1, 2026 +51
Upstate NY is known for both, Buffalo included.
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StuntmanSalt Apr 1, 2026 +41
Buffalo is one of the windiest cities in America, and routinely is in the top 3 for snow
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sabrenation81 Apr 1, 2026 +12
Wind chills were in the single digits. He was a missing person for several days after this incident took place. Part of the reason for that is that his body was concealed in a snowbank. They found him when the temps warmed a bit and that snow started to melt.
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fiendishrabbit Apr 1, 2026 +1128
Leaving a nearly blind man near a closed doughnut shop (ie, in the middle of the night) gives me[ Starlight Tour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_tours) vibes.
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immortalyossarian Apr 1, 2026 +169
We have a group in Minnesota that searches the woods around the building where they bring abducted people. They are consistently finding people abandoned in the woods without appropriate gear, identification, or phones in the middle of the night.
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burnalicious111 Apr 1, 2026 +49
Has there been any reporting on this? I'm not finding from a quick search
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immortalyossarian Apr 1, 2026 +55
There is a group called Haven Watch who have people staffed at the gates of the Whipple Building throughout the day to support people leaving. Some of them are also involved in keeping an eye on the surrounding area. I'm familiar with a couple people who are doing this separately from the larger group. [This](https://havenwatch.org/) is their website. They have some articles with interviews.
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Moth1992 Apr 1, 2026 +25
wtf this is so awful
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A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb Apr 1, 2026 +17
Human beings’ “unpersoning” of each other is grotesque. 
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The1Like Apr 1, 2026 +154
F***, don’t even have to click the link. Knew what it was right off the hop.
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Several_Mousse_9485 Apr 1, 2026 +79
The friendly Canadians. Canadians, don't get mad. I'm an American. We're all terrible. I want off this ride.
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Orzine Apr 1, 2026 +60
We weren’t so friendly to the natives, gotta acknowledge it to learn from it. Germany wants you to hold them to the holocaust and Canada wants you to hold us to… a lot of things.
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viperfan7 Apr 1, 2026 +9
Unfortunately we're still not
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Several_Mousse_9485 Apr 1, 2026 +5
I hope we Americans can hold ourselves to account someday.
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mg-mt Apr 1, 2026 +13
Violence against indigenous peoples in Canada is swept under the rug everyday. Check out the [Highway of Tears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears).
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axl3ros3 Apr 1, 2026 +9
Not just vibes. It's the same thing. Different location (barely)
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sourpower713 Apr 1, 2026 +3
Holy shit that’s crazy 
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fxkatt Apr 1, 2026 +557
>*Ruling a death a homicide means it resulted from another person’s actions — or inaction — but doesn’t necessarily mean that a crime was committed.* Or at least not when it's the Border Patrol. And to think his family was waiting for a call to inform of his release.
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dotcubed Apr 1, 2026 +169
So if cops locked him in a -10°F car, then went inside for lunch, came out to a dead man, then it’s not a crime? What if he only lost toes & fingers to frostbite? How about in summertime, they did crack the window, and he drank water but died anyway? ICE officers are getting away with literally murder. I really hope forensics can prevail, these people can’t go home to another state and disappear without being questioned.
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a-_2 Apr 1, 2026 +48
They're not saying there that it's definitely *not* a crime, only that the ruling here isn't concluding that, only that it was caused by another person.
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IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 1, 2026 +8
Can I ask what conclusions/outcomes/judgements to a homicide are possible other than crime? 
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NRMusicProject Apr 1, 2026 +40
This is a homicide by medical definition (versus a legal charge). It just means that the death was caused by another human being. This isn't a legal charge, it's the coroner basically saying "this death wasn't from suicide, natural causes, or an accident. This was caused by action or inaction of another human." While it's not a charge, it can definitely inform the prosecutors and help strengthen a case. It makes it difficult for an investigator to "theorize" something that would get the attention off of them, like saying "he just died of a heart attack." I'm no lawyer, but this is at least how I understand it. E: Also, if you were to, say, kill someone in self defense, the coroner will still rule it as a homicide because of this. So, all murders *are* homicide, but not all homicides are necessarily murder.
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IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 1, 2026 +12
Oh ok, I see. It's been *medically* ruled a homicide, not legally. So now the next step will be for law to prosecute it as such. Correct?
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fleegness Apr 1, 2026 +20
You're misunderstand what homicide means. You can commit homicide if someone attacks you with a knife and you defend yourself and in the process kill them. This will not result in you getting prosecuted (assuming it's clear self defense). All a homicide is, is death by another person's involvement.  This case SHOULD be prosecuted, but not all homicides will be.
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Fickle-Presence6358 Apr 1, 2026 +7
Prosecute it IF it is deemed unlawful.  You can have lawful homicide, such as cases of self-defence. Homicide isn't inherently a crime. The question is whether those in power will call it unlawful.
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IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 1, 2026 +11
Ok, so how about this? It's been medically ruled a homicide, not legally. So now the next step will be for the legal system to *determine whether*  to prosecute.
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Higherlead Apr 1, 2026 +9
Legally, it is a homicide. There is no distinction between the legal and medical definitions. It has yet to be determined if the homicde was *unlawful*. That is what the legal system now has to decide.
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Fickle-Presence6358 Apr 1, 2026 +8
Yeah exactly that.  They have confirmation that the death was caused by somebody, now they need to determine if those actions were unlawful.
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NRMusicProject Apr 1, 2026 +3
As far as I understand it.
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a-_2 Apr 1, 2026 +3
The wikipedia article goes over various examples, like self defence. You'd need to check the laws specific to the government with jurisdiction over it to know the exact definition here, but generally any killing caused by another person, not just one that would normally be a criminal act.
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Kilane Apr 1, 2026 +7
Police have been given almost complete immunity for their actions unless it can be proven they intentionally took actions to cause the death. This will be ruled as an understandable mistake and everyone goes home.
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IOnlyReplyToIdiots42 Apr 1, 2026 +14
If they did that to my family I'd be on a warpath. Literally, bulldozerguy style. I don't even know this poor guy and it's got my blood boiling.
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militaryintelligence Apr 1, 2026 +78
>State Attorney General Letitia James and Erie County District Attorney Mike Keane, both Democrats, Oh f*** you apnews. F*** you. Like that matters.
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d3k3d Apr 1, 2026 +30
This precisely. 1.) I already knew it without looking and 2.) It shouldn't matter
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militaryintelligence Apr 1, 2026 +29
They know what they're doing. They know MAGA are morons and will see that and go "Yup I knew it" and dismiss the whole article. Media is complicit.
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Aggravating-Yak9382 Apr 1, 2026 +235
I hope these people's lives are as long as their prison sentence.
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anorcpawn Apr 1, 2026 +89
the real news would be if anyone were ever held accountable for this administrations crimes
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heartbooks26 Apr 1, 2026 +18
I’ll vote for anyone who runs on supporting the prosecution of individual ICE agents as well as ICE leadership for the murders they’ve committed.
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vasta2 Apr 1, 2026 +7
They are trying to rig everything so this never happens
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SadExercises420 Apr 1, 2026 +130
What is this practice called? Someone described it when the news of his death came out. A star gazing tour or something like that? Where they drop the indigenous and other brown people outside of town when it’s freezing out so  they will die…
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drews_mith Apr 1, 2026 +119
There were reports of ICE doing this to people in Minnesota too, leaving them miles away from home in the Winter without proper clothes, and also without notifying their families or lawyers.
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SadExercises420 Apr 1, 2026 +60
It’s so damn disgusting and illegal and old school f****** racist terrible. It’s hard to wrap your head around the type Of people who would do that 
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drews_mith Apr 1, 2026 +41
The Nazis took notes from the KKK, and the ICE Gestapo took influence from many fascist regimes of the past
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SadExercises420 Apr 1, 2026 +14
It’s just so hard to imagine what sort of environment creates these psychopaths. To kill an old blind man because he’s brown and a legal immigrant. You are just a f****** psychopath 
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ProtectthePears Apr 1, 2026 +53
Starlight tour. It's a mini trail of tears with the same desired outcome.
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h0neybl0ss0m29 Apr 1, 2026 +43
Starlight I’m pretty sure
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SadExercises420 Apr 1, 2026 +12
It was a Canadian that described it, didn’t realize it was a thing with a name before a month ago 
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h0neybl0ss0m29 Apr 1, 2026 +9
I heard it only once before, years ago when some people on another sub speculated that’s what happened in the case of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos in Naples, Florida.
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spacemanspectacular Apr 1, 2026 +10
There were a few inexplicable freezing deaths of Native American men on the outskirts of Saskatoon over the decades. We know about starlight tours because one man named Darrel Night managed to survive being dropped off with no winter clothing by getting help at a power station outside the city. Of course the officers in that incident were only charged with unlawful confinement and given a few months in prison.  No one has ever been charged with murder for any of the cases of inexplicable hypothermia deaths just outside the city. But it’s not a stretch to put 2 and 2 together.
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SadExercises420 Apr 1, 2026 +3
That’s even more fucked than I thought its history was. So it’s well known enough historically but never been officially charged even though it clearly still happens.
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LadyDenning20 Apr 1, 2026 +4
Yes, it tragically used to be something that would happen to First Nations people at the hands of police in Canada.
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penguished Apr 1, 2026 +12
I'd just call it murder by stranding someone in freezing temperatures.
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montrealmumbler Apr 1, 2026 +24
It's called a Starlight Tour
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akestral Apr 1, 2026 +25
Starlight tours. There are reports that they used this tactic while they were beseiging the Twin Cities and people lost body parts to frostbite over it.
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LoveIsAFire Apr 1, 2026 +3
Starlight tour. The Canadians also treat their indigenous population like shit
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IntoTheCommonestAsh Apr 1, 2026 +4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_tours
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motozero Apr 1, 2026 +11
This is the one that really pisses me the f*** off. Stick a flower in these fascist fucks. Republicans forgot they were in America.
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EDScreenshots Apr 1, 2026 +37
I saw posts about this on facebook back when he was first found dead, there were many comments practically cheering his death just because he was from another country. There’s something seriously wrong with MAGA.
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bonsaibiddy Apr 1, 2026 +18
"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." Is being blind not a disability requiring special assistance?
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Aldo_says Apr 2, 2026 +8
We all knew it when this party of criminals decided to target legal innocent people going through the process of Citizenship and avoid real criminals. All this fuss for a f****** child rapist.
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Kahzgul Apr 1, 2026 +178
Good. ICE f****** murdered that man. Lock those fuckers up.
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TheyveKilledFritzz Apr 1, 2026 +13
The way this poor man died is horrifying. Should be a negligent homicide charge.
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e37d93eeb23335dc Apr 1, 2026 +28
“This death had NOTHING to do Border Patrol,” its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, said Would he still be alive if not kidnapped by ICE? Probably. So, they killed him.
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alexbruns Apr 1, 2026 +21
Everyone of these scum f*** losers needs to be tried and thrown in prison.
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ritual_blues Apr 1, 2026 +13
How we deal with these pieces of filth Nazis as a society when all of this is over is going to be very telling about our future as a country.
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Embarrassed_dancer Apr 1, 2026 +6
I hope they all go on trial for this, but they probably won't.
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deez-legumes Apr 2, 2026 +5
The American regime has no respect for humanity.
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zughzz Apr 1, 2026 +9
Imagine the things that they’re doing at their facilities that they aren’t reporting… there are zero checks & balances at these detention centers. They are WORSE than prison.
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projexion_reflexion Apr 1, 2026 +27
Letitia James has taken an interest in this case. Death of near-blind refugee in New York ruled a homicide - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/death-near-blind-refugee-new-york-ruled-homicide-2026-04-01/
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SpeshellED Apr 1, 2026 +4
I can't even comment on how despicable the USA has become to allowed these POS to function in this manner.
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gram70gigi Apr 1, 2026 +4
Just makes me want to cry
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AttentionNo6359 Apr 1, 2026 +4
Now let’s watch as the DOJ suddenly pressures the state to drop it
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Tubatu2 Apr 1, 2026 +3
They will be personally pardoned by the POTUS because he is a eugenicist freak who thinks every non-white death improves the world. Wish I was exaggerating but that's where we're at.
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BitterFuture Apr 1, 2026 +4
Well, that took...entirely too long. Now where's the murder indictment?
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Taodaching Apr 2, 2026 +5
This is heart breaking. Those people have lost their humanity. There will, quite literally, be hell to pay for all this someday. It's just atrocious. Absolute kangaroo court militia country.
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Cautious-Ad-9554 Apr 2, 2026 +3
You don’t hate these people enough
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No_Card3773 Apr 2, 2026 +4
When the time comes we need to charge every one of these mother fuckers. EVERY ONE
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nearlythere Apr 2, 2026 +4
What a terrible loss for his family and community. His family was GOING TO PICK HIMUP and the they f****** moved him so they couldn’t find him. Ice are cruel, and evil - the lot of them. Their local paper has some info about Shah Alam - shared by his wife https://investigativepost.org/2026/02/28/shah-alams-family-speaks-publicly-for-first-time-since-death/ “Throughout his life, Abdul Roshid said, Shah Alam maintained a sense of levity and humor. He would joke that while God made him blind in one eye, he gave him extra vision in the other. “He was a very calm and collected man,” she said. “He didn’t take anything personal. He would take his curses as a blessing.” Nurul Amin Shah Alam spent over two decades extracting his family out of Burma, then to the US. What a good dad! What a man, terrible loss. He had so many hopes and dreams. All gone now. He was a blacksmith. He couldn’t read, not surprising since Rohingya peoples lives are proscribed and limited by the ethno-nationalist Buddhists. (Another shower of bastards) Rohingya are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They are subject to physical and sexual violence, including men, women, and trans Rohingya people (Hijra). Made stateless, displaced, subject to forced labour, trafficking. I learned this when I first heard of his death, I expected an uproar and it was lost in all the other news. Doesn’t bear thinking how he suffered.
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Secret-Contest Apr 1, 2026 +7
my heart breaks for his family
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FarOffImagination Apr 1, 2026 +6
People get felony murders for less.
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baeb66 Apr 1, 2026 +7
>“This should not have happened,” Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, a Democrat, said at a news conference Wednesday, expressing condolences to Shah Alam’s family. I hate, hate, hate how the media infects everything with partisanship as if the party of the County Executive matters here. Because being against leaving the disabled to die on the street is now a partisan issue?
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Captain_Jack_Aubrey Apr 1, 2026 +7
Yes. It is. Because one side thinks it’s a tragedy and the other laughs at it.
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Herkfixer Apr 1, 2026 +12
Actually, if you've been paying attention, it actually has become a partisan issue with Republicans saying they deserved it for being here in the first place.
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GkSanchez Apr 1, 2026 +3
The gestapo officers are just going to get pardoned.
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McCool303 Apr 1, 2026 +3
Good, keep up the charges. I want everyone complicit in this administrations abuses tried and charged if found in violation of rights.
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Dystonian Apr 1, 2026 +3
Jointly and severally. Charge ICE jointly and severally. F*** ICE.
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Quasi-Yolo Apr 1, 2026 +3
There’s no discussion about whether or not this was a complete disregard for an elderly, disabled persons health. Only about the comfortability people have with living in a country where actions like this go without consequence
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RandonBrando Apr 1, 2026 +3
Homicide ruled a homicide
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MyHamburgerLovesMe Apr 2, 2026 +3
What the F***? >Ruling a death a homicide means it resulted from another person’s actions — or inaction — but doesn’t necessarily mean that a crime was committed.
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rensorship Apr 2, 2026 +3
Little wins. If youre not outraged, youre broken.
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larrychatfield Apr 2, 2026 +3
What else would it be ?!
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____trash Apr 2, 2026 +3
They need to set an example out of these murderous agents. They can't keep getting away with murder.
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hoops_n_politics Apr 2, 2026 +3
Something about this case makes me angrier than just about anything I’ve heard ICE or CBP do. An almost blind man who speaks barely any English - abandoned in the dead of night. That’s a helpless human being in my book, and they left him to die. It’s like they dropped off a toddler in the middle of the desert. There needs to be a reckoning for those officers, though legal or other means.
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pdchestovich Apr 2, 2026 +5
Of course it’s a homicide. The fact that the government even imagined arguing differently is at once worthy of ridicule and a sheer abomination of what could ever be considered appropriate or right. It’s the act of no government that any human with a conscience could ever defend or take pride in.
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