…"They told the doctors to cut out all of my [subdermal] piercings. … “I told the nurses specifically: ‘I do not consent to this.’ But they put lidocaine [for numbing] on my face and on the back of my neck. The thing is it is only supposed to work for 40 minutes; I was lying there for well over an hour and they just started doing it. I was shackled to the bed. I couldn’t move. “The guards who brought me there were laughing at me. They were just like: ‘Oh, that’s gnarly.’ I kept saying: ‘I can feel this. It hurts.’”

Holy fucking shit.

This man describes a completely arbitrary arrest process followed by being packed into a 10 man cell with 100 people in it and one toilet, consistently being denied food and hygiene, being punished for speaking to a lawyer and watching someone who’d been begging staff for their heart medication die of a heart attack right in front of him.

It’s important for Americans to hear this man’s story in his own words: https://archive.is/XpPIO

Funnily enough there’s a lot of Irish heritage in Mexico. During the Mexican-American war the Irish who were on the American side thought “this is messed up” and swapped to Mexico’s side.

This news story is horrible, but it is funny.

@Amuletta

“You look Mexican.”[sic] Which, according to the Supreme Court, is currently sufficient grounds to detain someone without due process.

oh my! I hadn’t heard that!

This is disturbing stuff.

Its his fault for not investing in skin bleaching. /s