The video is horrific of an illegal alien killing a US legal resident with a hammer. Of course the NYT thinks that the killing isn't the issue since racist Trump thinks that Haiti is a shit hole and we have 350,000 (probably a lot more) illegal unvetted Haitians in the US. Of course Trump posting the video is probably the fastest way to drive Christian evangelicals to vote for dems and open borders because its so good for the country.
For the mainstream media, a horrific murder in Florida is horrific only because the president called attention to it.
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What is worse: murder or alleged racism? The
New York Times knows. A headline in the paper’s April 11 print edition read: “Trump Posts Attack Video and Denigrates Haitians.” The
online version of the article was only slightly more detailed: “Trump Shares Video of Graphic Attack and Rails Against Haitians.”
What was this “attack video” or, even more puzzlingly, this “graphic attack?”
On April 3, a surveillance camera at a gas station convenience store in Fort Myers, Florida, filmed a burly man methodically bashing in the windows and hood of a parked car with a hammer. The audio captures the blows’ explosive force. When the vandal starts in on the driver’s side windows, a woman exits the convenience store and calls out to him. He strides over to her, winds up as if for a pitch, and lands a massive strike on her head. She falls to the ground. As she lies on her back, spread-eagled, the assailant lands six more blows on her skull. Initially, her arms twitch upwards with each strike, but then she moves no more. The murderer steps over her body and walks away.
The killer, Rolbert Joachin, is a Haitian illegal alien who entered the country in 2022. Rather than deporting him, the Biden administration granted him Temporary Protected Status. TPS allows illegals from countries allegedly experiencing crises to remain in the U.S. until the domestic crisis ends. Haitians have historically been the largest recipients of TPS grants, but they have recently been displaced from Number One status by Venezuelans. About 350,000 Haitians are in the country still on TPS.
Joachin’s TPS grant ran out in 2024, but he stayed anyway (of course). The record does not suggest that the Biden authorities tried to find him. Joachin was reportedly homeless and known in downtown Fort Myers as a nuisance. According to the police, he was under investigation for another crime at the time of the killing. Law enforcement is reporting that Joachin had planned to murder the victim, Nilufa Easmin. Easmin, an employee of the convenience store, was a 51-year-old Bangladeshi in the U.S. legally. Joachin reportedly demolished Easmin’s car in order to lure her outside.
On April 9, the Department of Homeland Security
posted the store video with the caption: “WARNING GRAPHIC: These are the consequences of importing the third world. Do not look away.” Four hours later, Trump posted his own
message about the killing on Truth Social:
This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, “Temporary Protective Status,” a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate. . . To my fellow Republicans, and frankly all Common Senses Americans, NEVER FORGET that Joe Biden and the Democrat Party turned the United States of America into a dumping ground, allowing Tens of MILLIONS of Criminals, Lunatics, and the Mentally Insane from all over the World to pour into our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked through our wide Open Borders. As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World.
Trump acknowledged the brutality of the video, which he embedded in his post. “I don’t recommend you watch this tape, because it is so terrible,” he wrote. He justified its release on the ground of political accountability: “
felt I had an obligation to put it up so that people can see what Democrats are protecting, and wanting to come into our Country, even now, after all we’ve been through. Again, viewer discretion advised — Not for children!”
To the New York Times, the story and the scandal here is Trump’s Truth Social post, not the psychotic bludgeoning. Trump “has made disparaging comments about Haitian immigrants for years,” the paper informed its readers. The Times quickly introduces an immigrant rights activist to offer moral clarity. “Guerline Jozef, the executive director of the immigrant rights nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, said that the president’s comments were in line with his administration’s history of targeting Haitian people and spreading false narratives. ‘They don’t see the humanity of immigrants,’ she said.”
The real victims in this episode, according to the Times and its sources, are Haitian migrants and other Third World border breakers. “'What President Trump is doing is weaponizing and continuing to attack and traumatize and terrorize communities of color, specifically Haitian immigrants,’” Jozef tells the paper.
