Dave SFeb 26
McNadoMD

The US Border Patrol abandoned a man from SE Asia in the middle of a blizzard. He was blind. He was not near his home. They called nobody and told nobody.

If I discharged a blind person into a blizzard from my ER, I’d lose my license, my house, and my job.

Fuck these nazi goons.

Feb 26 at 1:48amWeb
Show threadgarlandFeb 26
@mcnado Yeah, this was murder.
Show threadChris SmartFeb 26
@mcnado Whaaat? Link please... that's horrible!
Show threadgarlandFeb 26
@VE3RWJ @mcnado https://mastodon.online/@jetton/116134223978442953
Curmudgeon (@[email protected])

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a Rohingya refugee from Burma. He had been granted refugee status by the US government. Blind and speaking no English, in February 2025 he accidentally wandered into a neighbor's yard. She called the police, who tasered him, beat him up, and arrested him. After being held in jail for over a year, he was finally released on bail after agreeing to plead guilty to trespassing and possessing a weapon (a curtain rod he used as a walking stick). 1/2

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Show threadCommon SparrowFeb 26

@VE3RWJ @mcnado

https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

It happened in Buffalo NY. He was released on the opposite side of the city from his home neighborhood. He spoke little English, and was blind in one eye and almost blind in the other. His family tried for three days to locate him. They filed a missing person report, but it was called off when it was thought that he was still in custody. Border patrol just dumped him and washed their hands of him.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.

A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Investigative Post
Show threadJeffandthekidFeb 26
@CommonSparrow @VE3RWJ @mcnado F.U.C.K.U.S.A.
Show threadMatthew VaughnFeb 26

@CommonSparrow @VE3RWJ @mcnado

Very sad, and avoidable

Show threadJTinMIFeb 26
@mcnado Hang them up by their thumbs, naked, over a slow fire.
Show threadA Sentient Glue BottleFeb 26
@mcnado Everything about the story is demonic. Even the local PD got their jollies in. He was initially arrested because he went for a walk and got lost because of his near total blindness. So he ended up sitting on a ladies porch with his walking stick (a curtain rod). Cop shows up, and because he didn't speak English, he didn't respond to the cops commands, so they tased and beat him. Then locked him up for months till he copped a plea deal. THEN handed him over to Border Patrol.
Show thread"Mediocre Bunny" EvelynFeb 26
@mcnado @themooserooster
The horrific icing on the atrocity cake is that he was Rohingya refugee who had been in the US for only about 3 months before his initial arrest. Then he spent a year in jail, for a crime that seemingly amounts to “being confused while brown,” before being murdered by ICE goons.
Show threadBarbara MonacoFeb 26
@mcnado I want vengeance for that poor man. How terrified, how helpless he was. Border Patrol killed him.
Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyFeb 26
@Barbramon1 Beyond heartbreaking.
Show thread@CAWguy has movedFeb 26
@mcnado Nevermind the legal/financial implications, you wouldn’t have discharged someone out into a blizzard because you have morals, unlike those soulless bastards that did.
Show threadslotosFeb 26
@CAWguy @mcnado This wasn’t a message about morals, but a message about institutional nature of these atrocities.
Show threadcognitively accessible mathFeb 26
@mcnado and your soul. SERIUOSLY.
Show threadgluttoFeb 26

@mcnado

He also died, from the story that I read.

Show threadLightfighterFeb 26
@mcnado Thanks to SCOTUS, law enforcement has no duty to protect.
Show threadCat WestFeb 26
@Lightfighter @mcnado Leaving someone who is vulnerable in an environment they cannot survive is a form of murder. It’s not that they didn’t protect him, it’s that they killed him.
Show threadDonCCFeb 26
@mcnado
pitchforks!!!
Show threadDonCCFeb 26
@mcnado
maybe ADD a fork for the lady and make this a RESIST T-shirt?
Show threaddisorderlyfFeb 26

@mcnado See, you actually have training for your job. How many thousands of hours does med school amount to? Compared to the 250ish ICE is allegedly going through.

Then again, you fucking up as a doctor ostensibly only kills one person. Meanwhile, ICE has killed how many in the past month?

Show threadMab_813Feb 26

@disorderlyf @mcnado

You need zero training to know that you don't abandon blind people in a blizzard.

Show threaddisorderlyfFeb 26
@Mab_813 @mcnado There's always that one asshat who becomes the reason documentation explicitly says not to do the oddly specific thing you immediately know not to do, but didn't even think of someone somehow missing that. What I'm more scared of is that's how it goes during "normal" times. What will happen in response will almost certainly be worse
Show threadMarc Irving WeberFeb 26
@mcnado https://share.google/geHZWX5vfffvFJhiB
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold

"They just left him."

Mother Jones
Show threadTaylorFeb 26
@mcnado for every experience we know about, I think its safe to assume there are 100x or more that are still in the dark
Show threadJoe HeafnerFeb 26
@mcnado How is this not legally actionable?
Show threadMcNadoMDFeb 26
@heafnerj it may be, but law enforcement enjoys a fairly broad qualified immunity.
Show threadKevin P. FlemingFeb 26
@mcnado @heafnerj And Stephen Miller just keeps shouting "you have federal immunity" every chance he gets on TV shows.
Show threadGrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸Feb 26
@mcnado The American Nuremberg trials can't come fast enough
Show thread🏳️‍🌈 Bri 🌞🚴🌱✨Feb 26

@mcnado They learned this one from Canadian police and "starlight tours" 🤢

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/new-light-on-saskatoons-starlight-tours/

New light on Saskatoon's 'starlight tours' - Macleans.ca

An attempt to erase reference to the deadly practice from the police force's Wikipedia page stirs up dark memories, and new questions

Macleans.ca
Show threadLiberty and Justice For AllFeb 26
@mcnado Unbelievable cruelty
Show threadLinda Sgoluppi ArtistFeb 26
@mcnado I hope that wherever possible someone is finding the identity of those individual 'goons', there must come a day when they are in court and no amount of 'I was following orders' will be accepted as a defence.
Show threadgunstickFeb 26
@mcnado it may not be obvious to everyone reading only your toot, that the man died.
Show threadjipexuFeb 26
@gunstick @mcnado
oui je ne le savait pas en lisant le post ...
horrible les assassins assermentés poursuivent leur sale besogne !
Show thread🍄slow learner, ❤️‍🔥deep feelerFeb 26

@mcnado

His name was Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was 56 years old. May he rest in power.

May the rest of us work tirelessly to undermine not only ICE, but the entire system that spawned it.

Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Feb 26
@mcnado 😡 Lock them up and throw away the key. Seriously.
Show threadxs4me2Feb 26

@mcnado

Attempted murder…

Show threadTrimTab 🇺🇦Feb 26

@mcnado
Institutionalized racism and cruelty are features of the current USA regime, not a bug. Just ask that sadistic jackal Stephen Miller. (Not to be confused with the great musician.) I have no doubt of his genocidal white supremacist intents.

Isn't it ironic that the most racist people tend to be the ugliest, weakest and dumbest specimens of their particular skin color? May justice be found for this poor man.

Show threaddecapitaeFeb 26
@mcnado It's time to intentionally shun these cpb losers at every turn. There is no salvaging that organization.
Show threadSueFeb 26
@mcnado
The most heartbreaking detail to me is that this man arrived in the US in Dec. 24, thinking he had found a safe place. He was arrested in Feb. 25 because he got lost and confused and some woman got scared and callled police, who arrested him and put him in jail until this month, when they called CPB, who came and got him and took him to detention. And then released him to die. The man came to the US for safety and spent most of his time locked up and then died.
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Feb 27
@SueShannon @mcnado The weird thing about ICE & CBP goons' inhumanity is, that even their own ancestors very likely once sought a safe place — and found it in the U.S., at a time, when the country hadn't been ruled by malignantly psychopathic paranoid traitors, rebels, slavers & fraudsters.
Show threadK_L_CooperFeb 27
@SueShannon @mcnado
🖕🏼💩 FOUL -- we are the EVIL MONSTERS, along w ISR🇮🇱❗️❗️❗️
Show threadK_L_CooperFeb 26
@mcnado
🖕🏼💩
Show threadBenderIsGreat34Feb 26
@mcnado This is why I really hope the next administration doesn’t chicken out and not nail everyone of these people to the wall.
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Feb 27

@mcnado Stephen Miller's & Trump's terror goons & their criminal bosses are committing crimes against humanity.

Brutes don't belong into the sovereign people's public offices

"...
According to the Rome Statute, there are eleven types of crimes that can be charged as a crime against humanity when "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population":

"murder; extermination; enslavement; deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; torture; rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity...; enforced disappearance...; the crime of apartheid; other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
..."

Universal jurisdiction allows to hold the perpetrators accountable anywhere, by any state:
"...
Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to claim criminal jurisdiction over an accused person, regardless of where the alleged crime was committed and irrespective of the accused's nationality, country of residence, or any other connection to the prosecuting entity.
Crimes prosecuted under universal jurisdiction are considered crimes against all, too serious to tolerate jurisdictional arbitrage.
The concept of universal jurisdiction is therefore closely linked to the idea that some international norms are erga omnes, or owed to the entire world community, as well as to the concept of jus cogens—that certain international law obligations are binding on all states.
..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction

Crimes against humanity - Wikipedia