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Since returning to power, Donald Trump has used the Immigration and Custom Enforcement service (ICE) like his own personal gestapo. In one troubling video, this saw them ‘violently detaining’ a blind man in Portland, Oregon. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Veronica De La Cruz (@veronicadelacruztv) ICE: State violence As […]
As reported by the Hill, ICE agents dragged Quinn Haberl into their facility. In the course of dragging him, the agents dropped him on his head at one point. Following the fall, one agent stopped to collect Haberl’s white cane.
According to the Hill, activists report that Haberl is ‘usually joyful, dancing and having a good time while protesting outside of ICE’. These activists said directly:
It was heartbreaking to see him being dragged the way he was. The visceral reaction was to just not continue videotaping and get the angle, but I just couldn’t keep it out. I had to keep him in frame. I had to keep him in frame, and it just hurt my heart.
The Department of Homeland Security responded as follows:
This rioter was arrested after he blatantly disobeyed law enforcement orders to remain off federal property, obstructed law enforcement, and continued to block the driveway so vehicles could not enter or exit the ICE facility.
Haberl, meanwhile, is reportedly ‘too emotional to speak’.
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