You may not have heard the story of Nurul Amin Shah Alam.
He was a refugee from from Myanmar, a Rohinga. He is also blind and spoke very little English.
He was arrested in what was clearly a case of over aggressive policing, and spent much of the next year in jail.
His family would not bail him out because they believed that he would be seized by immigration officers and deported.
He was released following a plea deal which included no deportable offenses, but CBP seized him in response to a no longer in force detainer, and then they promptly dumped him in the parking lot of a closed coffee sErie County Medical Examiner has now ruled his death a homicide.
On Wednesday, the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office announced that it ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, a homicide. Neither Shah Alam’s family, who had waited to meet him outside the facility where he was being held, nor his lawyers, who had been attempting to contact him, were notified of his location. Shah Alam spoke very little English.
The Associated Press reported that the medical examiner’s office did not “reach any conclusions about responsibility” for the homicide and that Shah Alam’s death was “caused by complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer, precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration. “
“The designation of homicide does not imply intent to cause harm or death,” Erie County official Mark Poloncarz said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Manner-of-death determinations are neutral, non-legal, and exist for vital statistical purposes only. They do not indicate criminality, which is the purview of the justice system.”………
The Department of Homeland Security claimed on X that Shah Alam “showed no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance,” despite being blind and experiencing other health issues. “DHS is lying,” New York Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded in a quote post.
Poloncarz said that he has spoken to Erie County District Attorney Michael Keane and New York Attorney General Letitia James about the case, and he encouraged questions about criminal investigations to be directed to them.
The CBP officers involved with this, including supervisors who knew, or should have known, about this should be in custody right now.
I want to see COPS style footage of them being frog marched out of their homes in their underwear.
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