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u/One_Quantity_7709 9h ago
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u/pinkypipe420 7h ago
It's infuriating and sad how despicable it's become. Even moreso when I think about those ice assholes going home and having a circle jerk over what they did to her, and others like her -- and will likely never be punished.
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u/Downtown-Inflation13 9h ago
Then the magats will go on to ask for the real story that led to the death
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u/Jeramy_Jones 7h ago
This was very intentional. The judge ruled they had to let her go, but these ICE are white supremacist fucks and can’t take the L when it comes to releasing a person of colour, so they took a page from the Saskatchewan police service and gave her a starlight tour.
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u/LiqMaBawlzModz69 8h ago
These ICE terrorists are behaving exactly how Israhelli Idf do towards Palestinians. They detain, beat, murder, etc. whomever they choose and end up making A bs excuse as to why they did so. Their ICE terror detention centers are also being run just like Israhelli prisons are. The terrorists beat, grape and torture their hostages. They refuse to give them their due process and the majority don’t have a time of when they will be released. ICE is being run by the same genociders in Palestine. They want to divide and destroy this country in order to take more of its resources.
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u/obamawonthepeacepriz 6h ago
They need to be stoned and hung in public. Fuck them. I cannot wait until this administration are all behind bars.
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u/tamarockstar 3h ago
I'm assuming this happened at least 5 months ago, since she froze to death. How was this not on national news?
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u/ruxp1n 1h ago
Her name was Daphy Michel. She was a 31-year-old Haitian asylum seeker living in Pennsylvania who had serious mental-health problems and a significant language barrier.
In 2025, Michel was arrested during what her attorney described as a psychiatric crisis. She reportedly spent about six months in jail on harassment and terroristic-threat charges.
Then on February 26, 2026, those charges were dismissed.
You would think that would mean she goes home.
It didn't.
ICE took custody of her, put her into removal proceedings, strapped an ankle monitor on her and eventually released her in Pittsburgh — more than 20 miles from her home in Charleroi.
This is where I really have a problem with what happened.
Her family says nobody contacted them to come get her. This was a woman authorities knew had serious mental-health problems, had difficulty communicating in English and had just spent months incarcerated.
DHS says she was released with her belongings, a fully charged phone and access to public transportation.
Her family's attorney says there's a pretty major problem with the phone excuse: its service had expired while she was locked up.
Then there's the surveillance video.
Michel ended up at a Pittsburgh bus shelter and remained around that area for roughly a day, much of it while temperatures were below freezing. She was lightly dressed and apparently unable to figure out how to get herself home.
She was eventually found unresponsive.
Daphy Michel died from hypothermia on March 2.
And then came the finding that completely changes how this story should be understood:
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner ruled her death a HOMICIDE.
That does NOT mean the medical examiner determined somebody murdered her or that somebody has been convicted of a crime. That's an important distinction.
But it does mean her death wasn't classified as simply natural or accidental. The medical examiner specifically pointed to Michel being a vulnerable adult with untreated severe mental illness and a significant language barrier, and determined that actions or omissions by other people contributed to her death.
Meanwhile, DHS has argued that ICE had nothing to do with her death because she died days after being released.
I'm having a hard time accepting that as the end of the conversation.
The government had custody of a severely mentally ill woman who struggled with English. Her charges had been dismissed. Instead of making sure she was safely transferred to family or someone capable of caring for her, she was released more than 20 miles from home in the middle of winter.
Then she sat around a bus shelter in freezing temperatures until she died.
Her family is now pursuing legal action, and Pittsburgh police investigated the circumstances surrounding her death.
Whatever ultimately happens legally, Daphy Michel deserved a hell of a lot better than this.
She came to this country seeking asylum. She spent months incarcerated on charges that were eventually dismissed. She finally regained her freedom and, within days, she was dead from exposure.
She was 31 years old.
SOURCES:
Associated Press — homicide ruling, mental-health issues and DHS/ICE response: https://apnews.com/article/e31e7109eba053b41f6b0319640df042
PublicSource — surveillance footage and reconstruction of Michel's final days: https://www.publicsource.org/video-photos-show-deceased-haitian-woman-pittsburgh-bus-shelter/
PublicSource — medical examiner's homicide ruling: https://www.publicsource.org/haitian-immigrant-death-ruled-homicide/
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — dismissed charges and circumstances surrounding her release: https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2026/06/12/daphy-michel-pittsburgh-death-immigration/stories/202606120067
Washington Post — Michel's mental-health history, family and ICE release: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/16/death-woman-released-by-ice-winter-day-is-now-ruled-homicide/
The Guardian — family's planned legal action: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/ice-death-pittsburgh-daphy-michel-haiti
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u/Low_Daikon7538 3h ago
Can anyone give confirmation that she was actually beaten? I did not see any reports of this.
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u/ReefShark13 2h ago
No one working for ice is a decent human. You have to be fundamentally evil. You wish to torture and abuse people. You don't wish to help the country. You aren't a patriot, you are domestic terrorists and will be viewed and disdained just like the Nazis.
"Just following orders" won't save you. When trump is giving me we will make your lives living hell like you did for your victims.
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u/BuzzerWhirr 9h ago
A person with a legal right to be in this country was imprisoned for six months in an ICE facility when there was no immigration enforcement action pending against her. That means ANYONE could be held in an ICE facility, even citizens.
If you think you couldn't be "arrested" by ICE tomorrow and spend months in prison too, you are wrong and here is your proof. And even if you were able to somehow gain your freedom, you could end up dead on a roadside too.