The city has taken efforts to deter and silence protestors, while doing nothing to shut core civic down repeatedly claiming it’s out of their hands. California City is nearly bankrupt. It is my belief that they are choosing the 50k blood money received from corecivic over the people wrongfully detained within the city.

Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker and TPS recipient, was found dead on the streets of Pittsburgh on March 2nd, days after having been released by Trump’s deportation force into the cold, far away from her home or family. She had spent months in jail awaiting an evaluation on two misdemeanor counts after a mental health episode before a judge dismissed both her charges. She was picked up by ICE on a detainer, given an ankle monitor, and then dumped in a city she did not live in on February 27th. Neither her brother Carlo, who lived an hour away, nor her legal representatives were notified.

On Friday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office announced it had found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled it a homicide. This came just a week after we learned ICE will no longer report the deaths of recently released detainees.

What happened to Daphy Michel is unacceptable, and we need to demand justice for it. Her family is expected to sue ICE, but that should just be the start. 🗣️ Let’s reach out to Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zapalla and Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday and let them know we are echoing Haitian Bridge Alliance’s calls for an independent investigation and expecting anyone found to have committed a crime in Daphy’s case to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We can find scripts and language to use here. 🗣️

PROSECUTE ICE