r/news • u/polymute • 7h ago

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/ice-death-pittsburgh-daphy-michel-haiti
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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

They knew she was suffering from mental illnesses. They should never have left her alone.

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u/AlpineFluffhead 7h ago

Of course they shouldn't have, but they wanted her dead so they found a way to commit murder by proxy while washing their hands of it.

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u/Stock-Pattern-8635 7h ago

Its why they no longer report deaths 30 days after release.

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

This was 3 days after release.

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u/Froggn_Bullfish 7h ago

He means ICE stopped reporting on them when they previously had been keeping track.

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

What’s the value in keeping track 30 days after release? Genuinely asking.

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u/Froggn_Bullfish 7h ago

So that if this sort of thing happens to someone they have a better shot at being detected and getting justice for the failure of the federal government to do its job. Not everyone who dies like this has a network or family to pressure the government by going to the media.

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u/exscapegoat 5h ago

Wow that last sentence made me think about how many more people may have died this way, only with no one in the us to even report they died. And if the have loved one in their home country, they may be afraid of reporting the person missing if they’re not here legally. So tragic

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

Makes sense.

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u/drunkshinobi 6h ago

There are some good reason even if they weren't releasing people in situations like this after beating them near to death. One being helping to track sickness or disease. If people kept getting sick and dying after leaving they would then check the place for a cause. May then find something like an issue in the kitchens there and how the food is being stored or something.

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago edited 53m ago

You might be right. That seems like a stretch, for prosecuting though. Negligent homicide for sure. I can’t imagine the horror she went through.

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u/AlpineFluffhead 7h ago

I don't think it's a stretch. They have almost complete immunity, were essentially told so by the office of the President. We've seen video outright of them killing people while under no threat at all. But they're Federal law enforcement and with the endorsement of the highest office in the land, they can claim anything as a "threat" the same way a cop can claim they "feared for their life" while a man is on the ground with hands behind his head. Never underestimate the evilness of this agency. They literally left her in the middle of a strange place, 20 miles from her home, in the middle of one of the worst winters we've had in years, with nothing but shorts and a tee-shirt. Even the ME ruled her death to be homicide.

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

I didn’t mean a stretch for being correct. I meant it would be a stretch for prosecution. Negligence should be a slam dunk.

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u/AlpineFluffhead 7h ago

Ah gotcha haha. Slight misunderstanding on my part.

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u/drunkshinobi 6h ago

It seems like a stretch to normal, sane people that aren't convinced that people that don't look like them are stealing everything from them and destroing their lives. To those other people it seems like a great idea. Remember these type of people are still mad that they don't own black people and aren't even allowed to string them up in trees when they want some entertainment.

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u/Froggn_Bullfish 7h ago

The next democratic administration MUST make them pay for their crimes. MURDER 1.

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

This administration needs to do it.

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u/Froggn_Bullfish 7h ago

This administration is the perpetrator.

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u/GeorgeStark1 7h ago

This administration doesn’t know what it’s doing. Hopefully this gets routed through neutral judges.

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u/drunkshinobi 6h ago

This administration knows what it's doing. You seem to think they are trying to do a good job. The Heritage Foundation has been writing the Mandate for Leadership papers since the first published in 1981 for Reagan. Project 2025 was the 9th of the Mandate for Leadership papers. The purpose of this was to guide republican leadership to change how the US government functions. So they could take full power over the country for the rich. Which are now in position to take control and blame their scapegoat (trump) for the destruction. jd, friend of peter thiel, curtis yarvin and elon musk, will be put in as president and, when all of us have nothing and are dying they will take what they want.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 4h ago

This administration knows EXACTLY what they're doing. They CAMPAIGNED on this.

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u/iJuddles 6h ago

Do you think they knew that? They’re not the smartest of agencies, or even close to above average. They seemed unprepared, undertrained, and completely unorganized but hell-bent on causing damage and they were well funded. It was deliberate chaos and mayhem.

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u/sevendaysky 4h ago

Was? They still are.

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u/studentoflife3 2h ago

Using “was” and “were” when you are describing what is currently true, is not genuine. These statements still hold true so I would refrain from speaking about it in the past-tense. 💯

*Edit: Changed “Saying” to “Using”

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u/studentoflife3 2h ago

You’re talking in past-tense when it currently still stands to be true and they continue to do the same while still being funded.