Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents initially claimed Alberto Castañeda Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release.
But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old’s brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.
Usually the case. No one is pissed about all the Native Americans being disappeared by ICE.
Except it made headlines and drew outrage and I believe said outrage got them all (or at least most of them) released.
But sure, let’s focus all our efforts on making an objectively racist regime seem somehow equivalent to the public opposition because yes clearly everything we do is evidence we are just as racist as ICE. /s
IIRC there was a man that was strangled to death in custody, but people stopped talking about it once it came out he was a sex offender.
Even Renee’s death lost attention when it came out she was gay.
We have a problem in this country with empathy, and who we extend basic human rights to.
We’re experiencing large scale human rights violations every day but people look the other way.
We are still talking about it a lot every day… Also, I’m not quite sure how you’d gauge a difference there. We knew she was gay like an hour into the coverage.
It didn’t come out Renee was gay.
It did. I saw early on that it was her wife there at the scene of the murder.
It didn’t cause any loss of attention. The person you’re responding to is a liar.
I guess it depends where you are and how you read the news. From outside the USA I saw a lot of details about the murder, and the backlash, before reading that her wife was in the car at the time. It probably took a couple of days?
“Her wife” was included in news reports within about an hour. Didn’t seem like any sort of delay to me.
Fair enough. I guess I mostly saw breaking reports which were fairly scant on personal details followed by opinion pieces which focused more on the “usa slides further into fascism” angle.
I recall the first reports talking about her dead husband and acting like her kid was an orphan.
I recall the tone changing in how people talked about her in various threads and articles depending on how prevalent her being gay was.
Maybe we saw those reports within an hour, but I recall people still responding to the straight-washed articles the next day.
I’m not going to say her sexuality hasn’t changed the responses by some, it absolutely has. But its not like it was somehow held back.
That said, there are people saying things like “Pretti shouldn’t have reached for his gun” - a statement that is absolutely insane considering he not only never reached for his gun, but was also disarmed when he was murdered.
Thats an issue with ignorance, not with reporting. The information is readily available, some just grab that first headline and never bother to learn more.
I noticed no change like this at all. We’ve had nationwide protests for Renee Good.