Cure for ICE

More of this please.

ICEholes, uninvited, climbed into the car of Rekeya Frazier and Oluwadamilola Bamigboye to “question” them about their immigration status. Bamigboye is in the U.S. from Nigeria on a student visa. Frazier is a U.S. citizen.

The FBI alleges that the HSI agents walked up, showed their badges, and said they wanted to talk with Bamigboye. One agent got into the front seat of the Jeep and tried to stop Frazier from driving off. But she put the SUV in gear and headed for the New Hope Police station.  

“The agent truly believed that he was being abducted,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Behar said at a Tuesday detention hearing, where he asked Magistrate Judge David Schultz to keep the couple in jail while their case proceeds.

The agents walked up and showed their badges…yeah, sure. As if ANYONE is naive enough to believe that piss soaked load of fairy tale nonsense.

Defense attorney Kevin Reich, who represents Bamigboye, said he disputes “about 95 percent” of the government’s narrative. 

Reich said the agents did not display their credentials when they approached the Jeep, and the government’s claim that one agent had to jump out of the way as Frazier drove off is contradicted by surveillance video. 

Bamigboye dialed 911 from the back seat as Frazier was driving and the agent was in the front passenger seat. 

Calling the government’s case “ludicrous,” Reich said his client “may be the first criminal in history to call 911 during the commission of his alleged crime.”

The agent in the front passenger seat said, in a sweet bit of karma, he "feared he was being kidnapped." (insert major fucking eye roll here) He pulled his gun on Frazier but she didn’t stop (and, smartly, he didn’t shoot) – she took that ICEhole to the cop shop. 

A very brave young woman. She is, by the by, the sister of Darnella Frazier, the teen who recorded George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police in 2020. 

Bad news – Bamigboye is now in ICE custody. I’m glad he has a lawyer and that this is already in the news. Maybe this will keep him alive.

In local news, MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was shot multiple times and killed in his home Monday night. There’s absolutely no other info about it to be had beyond the fact that he was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science, engineering and physics. Also, he was from Portugal. 

Was this an ICE hit job? Did a neighbor, in his quiet, well-to-do area, just snap about how Nuno set out his weekly recycling? Is there high level academic politics and intrigue involved? Have I been reading too many mystery novels lately?

Why…yes. Yes, I have.

As for the shooting at Brown University in Providence, the search for the killer is starting to look bleak. Authorities are hinting that the window to catch a suspect is closing. The pic of the new person of interest is a white guy. Hard to tell with his winter cap and jacket but he looks like your basic schlub – pasty, overweight, under the hat he’s probably balding. Eh, who knows.

What I’d like to know is – what gives with all the violence and killing? I mean, I get it with the ICEholes. Their lords and masters – Prez Pedo and his faithful Repedocans – are ALL about whipping up their cult of rabid thugs to the old ultraviolence. Like Rome’s emperor and his inner circle at the Colosseum, Pedo and his cabinet of incompetents enjoy nothing more than an afternoon of watching brown and black skinned people being shredded.

Trump is a viral disease.

We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away.
~ Albert Camus, The Plague 

Hopefully we will be cured of him and his kind before it’s too late.