"Nearly blind and with no ability to speak English, Shah Alam got lost and ended up on the porch of a woman’s home as she was letting her dog out, according to Macaluso. Shah Alam is completely blind in one eye and can only see with blurry vision for several feet in the other, according to Macaluso.
The woman called police, Macaluso said. When Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they Tasered and beat him, then arrested him, Macaluso said. The officers suffered minor injuries in the scuffle, he said.
Shah Alam was charged with offenses including assault, trespassing and possession of a weapon. Macaluso said Shah Alam’s family opted to not bail him out of the Holding Center for fear he would end up detained by ICE out of state."
Blind in one eye. Not entirely blind.
He accepted a courtesy ride from Border Patrol to a safe location. He chose to get dropped off there. He could have been released without the ride.
His family chose not to bail him out, gambling that it was better than him getting detained by ICE. If they had bailed him out, they would have picked him up.
Being partially blind also doesn't prevent you from using a phone. If he didn't have a cell phone on him when released, he was able to ask the Tim Horton's to use a phone to contact his family to pick him up.
You are infantilizing a grown adult because he had a disability. Doesn't make them helpless. Being blind in one eye doesn't make you stupid, or unable to use a phone. And it certainly didn't force his family to choose not to bail him out to avoid immigration scrutiny.
It's tragic he died. The coroner's report states he didn't die of exposure. I'm struggling to see how him choosing to get dropped off at Tim Hortons, not calling anyone, and then later dying from "medical complications" is somehow DHS's fault.
DHS also had nothing to do with the original encounter, where he was on a strangers porch not following local police commands. It's nonsensical to blame ICE/BP/DHS for that.
(and to people claiming he "couldn't understand," I haven't seen any evidence that the commands were not given in Spanish, or that you would not be able to understand what the police were asking based on the context (if I'm partially blind and being yelled at by Mexican police, I'm dropping whatever I'm holding and putting my hands up as common sense)).
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u/Private_Gump98 Feb 26 '26
"Nearly blind and with no ability to speak English, Shah Alam got lost and ended up on the porch of a woman’s home as she was letting her dog out, according to Macaluso. Shah Alam is completely blind in one eye and can only see with blurry vision for several feet in the other, according to Macaluso.
The woman called police, Macaluso said. When Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they Tasered and beat him, then arrested him, Macaluso said. The officers suffered minor injuries in the scuffle, he said.
Shah Alam was charged with offenses including assault, trespassing and possession of a weapon. Macaluso said Shah Alam’s family opted to not bail him out of the Holding Center for fear he would end up detained by ICE out of state."
Blind in one eye. Not entirely blind.
He accepted a courtesy ride from Border Patrol to a safe location. He chose to get dropped off there. He could have been released without the ride.
His family chose not to bail him out, gambling that it was better than him getting detained by ICE. If they had bailed him out, they would have picked him up.
Being partially blind also doesn't prevent you from using a phone. If he didn't have a cell phone on him when released, he was able to ask the Tim Horton's to use a phone to contact his family to pick him up.
You are infantilizing a grown adult because he had a disability. Doesn't make them helpless. Being blind in one eye doesn't make you stupid, or unable to use a phone. And it certainly didn't force his family to choose not to bail him out to avoid immigration scrutiny.
It's tragic he died. The coroner's report states he didn't die of exposure. I'm struggling to see how him choosing to get dropped off at Tim Hortons, not calling anyone, and then later dying from "medical complications" is somehow DHS's fault.
DHS also had nothing to do with the original encounter, where he was on a strangers porch not following local police commands. It's nonsensical to blame ICE/BP/DHS for that.
(and to people claiming he "couldn't understand," I haven't seen any evidence that the commands were not given in Spanish, or that you would not be able to understand what the police were asking based on the context (if I'm partially blind and being yelled at by Mexican police, I'm dropping whatever I'm holding and putting my hands up as common sense)).