…There was also this.
Besieged by questions about his war on Iran and his wife’s statement on Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump tried to shift the national conversation back to his immigration crackdown by posting a graphic, distressing video of a woman in Florida being killed last week by a man he described as an illegal immigrant from Haiti.
The video, taken by a surveillance camera outside a Fort Myers gas station, showed a man identified by authorities as a Haitian immigrant using a hammer to bludgeon to death the woman, who was reportedly a clerk at the gas station. […]
The video that Trump posted on Thursday was originally surfaced by the Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin on Tuesday, the same day Trump was threatening to commit a war crime by bombing Iran’s civilian infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement that the suspected attacker in custody was “released” in 2022 by the Biden administration and given temporary protected status, although it is unclear whether that information is accurate. […]
The distressing video of the murder was first posted on social media earlier on Thursday by DHS, which slightly blurred the violent attack. The department has consistently used social media images to inflame anti-immigrant sentiment amid a sweeping crackdown that has also targeted legal immigrants, with a stated goal of deporting more than a quarter of the current US population.
The Fort Myers News-Press reported last week the suspected killer, who is homeless, had attempted to withdraw cash from an ATM in the gas station and, after being unable to do so, demanded that the clerk give him cash. The following day he fatally attacked the clerk, who was an immigrant from Bangladesh, with a hammer, the outlet reported.
When Trump shared the brutal video, with a long caption railing against what the president wrongly called “temporary protective status”, the video of the woman’s last moments was not blurred.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, commented that DHS and then Trump shared the video “for exactly as vile a reason as you can imagine; basically Breitbart’s old ‘black crime’ vertical as official government policy. There hasn’t been an administration this openly racist since Wilson invited the KKK to the White House.”
To be honest I’m surprised the victim didn’t get blamed as well for having been an immigrant.
Oh, there’s so many people who should be dead right now instead of her.
