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At this point, it should be clear to the Trump administration that it has a police brutality problem over at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, the DHS is too busy lying and vilifying victims to justify the aggressive and often violent behavior of its ICE agents — violence that even people with disabilities are not immune to.
On Saturday, several ICE agents took into custody 36-year-old Quinn Haberl, a blind man who was on the side of the driveway to an ICE facility in Portland, by swarming around him and then dragging him off by his limbs. Footage of the incident was recently obtained by KOIN 6.
The footage shows Haberl was sitting close to a thick blue line on the ground, which federal agents drew to indicate when protesters were crossing onto the federal property. If protesters cross that line, agents can arrest them for trespassing. Haberl was accused of failing to move away from the line when commanded to do so, and, somehow, that’s supposed to justify an entire group of agents roughing up a blind man who, according to The Oregonian, stands all of 4-foot-6.
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