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Medical examiner rules Daphy Michel's death a homicide

newsJun 13, 2026243,593

The Allegheny County medical examiner ruled Daphy Michel's death a homicide, finding hypothermia as the cause. Michel, 31, was found unresponsive March 2 at a South Side Pittsburgh bus shelter after spending days in subfreezing weather; her death occurred three days after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released her. ICE transferred her roughly 25 miles from where she had been detained, and her family says it expects to sue ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. The homicide finding assigns responsibility to the actions of another person or agency and could prompt legal action and renewed scrutiny of ICE's release practices for vulnerable asylum seekers.

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The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

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Weed Monger 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎177

It's about fucking time we started bringing these lawless criminals to justice.

BigFarts42064

They dumped this poor woman over fifteen miles from home on a freezing night and didn’t notify anyone of where she was. They deliberately killed her.

Ouisiem52

The cruelty of those with power is just unforgivable.

Scott Wigner 🇨🇦🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱49

Arrest the ICE agents responsible for this and make those assholes accountable for what they did.

genxjennifer.bsky.social36

Something like this happened in Buffalo too. ICE is depraved. Abolish ICE, restore the original INS.

Kim Bernstein25

"A magistrate said he could not hold her for trial for threatening imaginary people, Murphy said. Afterward, ICE arrested her in her cell, put an ankle monitor on her and took her 25 miles (40 kilometers) away to Pittsburgh, where she sat at a bus shelter for days in winter, he said." Barbaric.

Snapple Caps20

so common it has a name, starlight tours (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlig...) barbaric and racist and I hope they rot in hell for this

Themistocles Wall🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️11

how exactly was this woman a danger to America? the “worst of the worst”? worthy of death?

WildWaveRider9

Look at Daphy Michel's adorable face and soulful eyes, and now this young lady is gone! How could anyone just capture her & throw her out into the cold to die? So cruel! No living being deserves to be so devalued even if they were not so precious as her! It's Negligent Homicide at the very least!😢

Cathy Michelle8

Trump regime is a murderous crime syndicate. Monsters. 💔

Joanne Belknap7

JFC! Every damn day. While the People’s House is a circus run by a clown. 💔🤬

bilbyblober.bsky.social7

This is called a “Starlight Tour” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlig...

Shannon7

If it’s homocide, where are the murder charges?!? Nobody should be above the law, especially sworn officers

Mina4

And Republicans just fully funded the perpetrators.

Kura4

Police used to do this to Indigenous people in the Canadian prairies. They called the “starlight tours”

theothercatlady.bsky.social3

So who was on duty when they released her ? We need names and arrests. Just kidding. They’ll be paid even more money and everyone they know will buy them a beer. Then they’ll be invited to the White House to meet Stephen Miller.

nometahere.bsky.social3

And I bet that ME will be fired. Trump never faces any consequences

Kaw! 🍉2

Sool so when are individual ICE personnel going to prison.

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