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.
Fair enough. It took a day or two before I heard anything much more about her than that she was someone that the US government had just executed in the street.
Also, no media made a big deal of the fact she was gay, because we don’t care about anything like that in the UK, unless of course she’d been trans in which case she’d have been hung out to dry.