Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents initially claimed Alberto Castañeda Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,” according to court documents filed by a lawyer seeking his release.

But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the 31-year-old’s brain, said three nurses familiar with the case.

  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    1041·
    16 hours ago

    AP shared the details of Castañeda Mondragón’s injuries with Dr. Lindsey C. Thomas, a board-certified forensic pathologist who worked as a medical examiner in Minnesota for more than 30 years. She agreed with the assessment of hospital staff.

    “I am pretty sure a person could not get these kinds of extensive injuries from running into a wall,” Thomas said, adding that she would need to see the CT scans to make a more definitive finding.

    “I almost think one doesn’t have to be a physician to conclude that a person can’t get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall,” she said.

    So was the ICE agent dumb enough to think this was a believable story or did they just not give a fuck if anyone believed it or not? It could really go either way.

    The nurses interviewed by AP said they felt intimidated by ICE’s presence in the critical care unit and had even been told to avoid a certain bathroom to minimize encounters with officers. They said staff members are using an encrypted messaging app to compare notes and share information out of fear that the government might be monitoring their communications.

    Welcome to Trump’s AmeriKKKa.

    • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
      35·
      14 hours ago

      or did they just not give a fuck if anyone believed it or not?

      We have literal footage from multiple angles of ICE agents murdering people and the government is protecting them. The agents don’t give a fuck. They’ve been given permission to kill anyone they want and nothing will happen.

    • nocturne@slrpnk.net
      331·
      15 hours ago

      So was the ICE agent dumb enough to think this was a believable story

      It is probably the same story he gives when his wife/gf ends up in the ER for similar injuries.