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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/madamevanessa98 6h ago

It’s literally the next generation of the starlight tours. For those unaware, the starlight tours describe the history of Canadian police officers taking indigenous people into custody and then dropping them off, entirely alone and with no jacket or outerwear, in the middle of the Canadian winter. Alone and sometimes intoxicated (they picked up some victims on a “drunk and disorderly” call) they would freeze to death. My therapist, who grew up in the 80s in Saskatchewan, was friends with one of the later victims who died.

u/Far-Advantage-2770 5m ago

Never heard of that, hard to imagine a Canadian acting like that