Buffalo’s Arakan Rohingya community was rattled after a disabled man’s death. “Our worry comes from future incidents that may happen,” one resident said.
To be clear:
- he was blind
- he only spoke Rohingya
- he was originally arrested because he got lost, and the cops beat him up for not complying with orders he could not understand
- they gave him to ICE, which dumped him in the freezing cold without adequate clothes, outside a closed café, far from home
That headline, “left him at a cafe,” is offering the regime some scrap of moral cover that is not justified by any facts of the case, as far as I can see. There is barely a reason to bring this up in the story, let alone the headline. That’s just the NYT kissing the regime’s ass.
This takes some effort, some talent. If you asked me to write a headline that made ICE look ever so slightly less evil, I would not have considered this, I wouldn’t have that creative capacity. Someone has made this their mission in life, to paint the murderous thugs of ICE in a gentler light.
Welcome to the New York Times. They do a lot of good journalism, but have a different person from the one who wrote the article write the headline, precisely to enable this kind of thing.
I’m not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore. If the restaurant is closed they did NOT drop him at the restaurant.
And he was blind. He had been beaten up and they took the curtain rod he was using as a cane.
This is a pattern for ICE. In Minnesota they are finding people left in the cold without proper garments and citizens comb the woods looking for victims.