ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

11 hours ago by CubitOom to c/politics

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

America has imprisoned journalists before. It has even killed them. But what has happened to Parias is something different: A journalist was injured while documenting government power, shot during an attempt to arrest him, prosecuted, repeatedly denied medical care — and then left in immigration detention, where he has continued documenting the conditions around him.

The government's powers to enforce immigration laws and prosecute crimes do not erase the First Amendment. Journalists don't surrender their rights because they lack immigration status. And the government can't make a journalist disappear simply by locking him in a cell.

At some point, the question stops being what else will happen to Parias. It becomes what America is willing to let happen to a journalist.


For more information, either visit the article directly or view the post with quotes in !crimes_of_ice@lemmy.4d2.org

https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4725660

naught101 19 points 7 hours ago

I'm amazed there are not riots over shit like this

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fireweed 6 points 5 hours ago

Because most people don't believe it could happen to them or someone they care about.

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naught101 3 points 5 hours ago

Yeah... That individualist mind virus is pretty virulent, huh?

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desiccated_event 2 points 6 hours ago

I appreciate your entusiasm.

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desiccated_event 5 points 6 hours ago

So we dedcided upon rules, we call them laws, they only count when everyone is bound by them. SMDH

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CubitOom 1 point 5 hours ago

Who's "we"?

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