#death-in-custody — Public Fediverse posts
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This is the #4Corners program that revealed the #Bluetooth vulnerability of #Axon policing products (#Taser and #BodyCams). Aside from the taser-caused death allegations and the vigorous means by which the Axon company defends their products, I am also concerned about the bodycams our armed forces wear on deployments. Are they also #hackable?
Watching S2026 Taser Tactics in iview
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners/series/2026/video/NC2603H012S00 -
Mexican immigrant José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano has died in ICE custody, and the headline of the ICE press release about it reads "Criminal Illegal Alien Passes Away in ICE Custody." He was a "criminal" because he was "previously convicted of possession of a controlled substance and theft."
This makes roughly 14 people who've died in ICE custody just this year (it's only late March; 32 died in all of last year, so they're on pace to nearly double that in 2026). That doesn't count the murder or Keith Porter outside his home by an off-duty ICE agent in LA on New Year's Eve or the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and it also doesn't include anyone killed by CBP, such as the awful death of Nurul Shah Alam.
I cannot overstate the depth of these people's misanthropy. It's just blows my little mind how many of them call themselves "pro-life" despite all the evidence to the contrary.
[Edit: New, functional link]
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The medical examiner in El Paso, Texas, has ruled that Geraldo Lunas Campos's death was, in fact, a homicide. Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at the Camp East Montana site at Fort Bliss in El Paso. He's the one who ICE claimed was trying to commit suicide, so the staff at the facility restrained and ultimately killed him to stop him from killing himself. So even if he did want to commit suicide, that would only mean that he died anyway, but with more pain, less agency, and less dignity.
I'm curious what the consequences will be for the medical examiner, but regardless, I do know that there's no way this administration is going to take action to stop people from dying at disproportionate rates at Camp East Montana unless they're somehow forced to. Maybe the courts can do that, but it's just as likely that they can't or, if they can, that it won't be until after the camp has claimed even more lives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/
#ICE #FuckICE #ElPaso #FortBliss #CampEastMontana #DeathInCustody #necropolitics #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood
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A coalition of organizations in the Southwest is demanding the closure of Camp East Montana following three different deaths in custody there in recent months.
From the article:
Diaz died on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Camp East Montana. He was pronounced deceased at 4:09 p.m., and his death was a presumed suicide, according to ICE. However, the official cause of his death remains under investigation.
The announcement of Diaz’s death comes just days after The Washington Post reported last week that 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos’ death — the second detainee who died at the detention center — could be ruled as a homicide.
The coalition said that Lunas Campos “died from asphyxiation after guards choked him to death, and that federal authorities subsequently are threatening to deport key witnesses to the incident, raising grave concerns about accountability and efforts to suppress evidence of abuse at the facility.”
Additionally, Francisco Gaspar Cristobal Andres was the first detainee held at the Fort Bliss immigration facility to die. The 48-year-old man from Guatemala was taken to the hospital on Nov. 16 and died on Dec. 3 of “suspected natural causes.”
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Another detainee has died in ICE custody. Some outlets are presenting this as a kind of he said/she said situation, but the preliminary autopsy report says it was homicide. Will be, uh, interesting to see what changes in the final report, but no one is contesting the fact that there was a struggle between Geraldo Lunas Campos and staff at an ICE detention facility. If this is their idea of saving lives...
EDIT: I'd like to add that it doesn't actually matter what bad things Lunas may have done in his life. If he actually did what he was convicted of (which isn't guaranteed), then yeah, he may have been a pretty bad dude. And still he didn't deserve to be suffocated to death in a painful chokehold by agents of the state. I really can't think of anything he could have done in his life that would justify that.
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A Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility earlier this month during an altercation with guards, and the local medical examiner has indicated that his death will likely be classified as a homicide.
The federal government has provided a differing account surrounding the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, saying the detainee was attempting suicide and staff tried to save him.
A witness told The Associated Press that Lunas Campos died after he was handcuffed, tackled by guards and placed in a chokehold until he lost consciousness. The immigrant’s family was told by the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office on Wednesday that a preliminary autopsy report said the death was a homicide resulting from asphyxia from chest and neck compression, according to a recording of the call reviewed by the AP.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-detention-death-texas-2bfb614b2b222803d309f338357d04eb
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Oury Jalloh - Das war Mord!
Die Gedenkdemonstration für Oury Jalloh wurde in diesem Jahr nicht mehr von der Oury Jalloh Initiative, sondern von der „Oury Jalloh Family Campaign“ organisiert. Der Bruder von Oury #Jalloh, Saliou Diallo, hat die Gruppe ins Leben gerufen. Auf der Demo sprachen Vertreter von Initiativen für den 2025 ermordeten #Lorenz und Rooble #Warsame. Der Bruder von Mouhamed #Dramé entzündete ein Kerzenlicht auf dem Gedenkstein für Alberto #Adriano, der im Jahr 2000 hier von #Neonazis im Stadtpark ermordet wurde. Vor der #Staatsanwaltwaltschaft gab es eine ergreifende Rede einer Angehörigen über den Tod eines 32jährigen Mannes, der am 3. Oktober in der JVA #Uelzen um Leben kam. Die Schwester berichtet, dass ihr Bruder trotz einer chronischen Nierenkrankheit wegen einer Geldstrafe eine Haftstrafe in der JVA antreten mußte ohne die notwendige ärztliche Versorgung: „Wir haben befürchtet, dass er irgendwann an einer Überdosis stirbt, nicht aber, dass man ihn elendig in einer videoüberwachten Gefängniszelle verrecken lässt“.
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Weiterlesen auf trueten.de
#RassismusToetet #Rasismus #DeathInCustody #Polizeigewalt #Polizei #Dessau
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The parents of Ismael Ayala-Uribe, who died of sepsis in ICE custody last September, have filed a wrongful death suit against the agency. They also name the owner of the private prison where he was held and the health care contractor they brought in as defendants.
The lawsuit alleges that, for weeks, Ayala-Uribe complained of “intense and progressive physical pain, including abdominal pain, severe buttock pain, persistent fever, chills, extreme weakness, and continuous intestinal internal pain related to internal bleeding” and that all he ever got was a "cursory assessment" and some over-the-counter pain meds.
ICE, classy as ever, issued a "Detainee Death Report" that leads not with the circumstances of Ayala-Uribe's death, but rather with his crime of being born in the wrong place and the fact that he had a couple of DUI convictions, most recently six years earlier, as though these make a slow, painful death in their custody seem reasonable.
#FuckICE #ICE #ReneeGood #fascism #Necropolitics #DeathInCustody