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Flo's avatar

Thank you so much for boosting this and sharing ways to get involved.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

You’re so welcome. I was glad to see a petition and a legal challenge because it allowed me to put some concrete ways we can help him into the article!

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Flo's avatar

Yes! I’m glad there’s already a push for his release. I signed and shared the petition. Hopefully we get the numbers up!

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Barbara Anne Bailey's avatar

Cruel inhumane and lawless.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Absolutely. I’m so glad he’s filing a legal challenge and I sincerely hope he wins.

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Lenny LaSalandra's avatar

You said the magic word: laws. May be cruel but it is the law

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Barbara Baldwin's avatar

Those of us who are disabled need to stick together and make our plights heard. Because this administration clearly views us as “less than,” which is not only insulting but debilitating. The fact that ICE can hold a double amputee without proper medical oversight of his condition is beyond abhorrent. Get this man the help and the dignity he needs and deserves. We do not, or should not at the very least, treat people worse than we treat animals in this country.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Exactly. Unfortunately this regime is deeply eugenicist and disabled people make easy targets.

There should be accommodations, but we all know that what should happen is very different from what IS happening.

We must stick together and rally for our community because no one else is coming to save us.

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Rina Henri's avatar

Yes!

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Cryn Johannsen's avatar

Is there any way to donate?

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Yes you can donate through change.org which is linked near the end of the article. Thank you for helping!

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Kassandra Ignored 🤓's avatar

Signed and donated. Thank you for sharing this important story

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Canadian Returnee's avatar

Sad but not surprised they are now going after Africans or persons of African-American origins.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Yeah it’s sadly predictable. As is the lack of accommodations for his disability. They don’t care if he dies. Which is why we must get him released.

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Kassandra Ignored 🤓's avatar

Signed and donated. Thank you for sharing this important story.

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

How/where did you donate? I’ve had some other readers asking. And thank you!

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Kassandra Ignored 🤓's avatar

I clicked the link. Sometimes the signing the petition is not accepted. I just refreshed, signed again. Donations to change.org are the bottom of page.

Sometimes if the page gets too many requests it will glitch. Try posting the link below it might help to copy paste it on server.

They can try again later.

There is also a QR link.

https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-release-of-rodney-taylor-from-ice-detention

You are very welcome!

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Thank you Cassandra! I hope he has 3,000 signatures by tomorrow morning!

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Kassandra Ignored 🤓's avatar

It already has over 2600 signatures. Last signature was 6 minutes ago. You have definitely helped. Bravo 👏

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JD Davids @TheCrankyQueer's avatar

Thank you for this. Signed and will call. And will share!

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Broadwaybabyto's avatar

Thank you JD!

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Deb Vitkova's avatar

Appalled, but not surprised.🤬🤬🤬🤬

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William's avatar

It's scary how saturated we are with stories like Rodney's and to think of how many may be slipping through the cracks. Appreciate you shedding light on some of them. Keep up the good work.

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Karin's avatar

Double amputee being held by Gestapo. Imagine having all your limbs and being held by them for a long while in the internment camps and all the profits the prisons make while they charge the prisoners extraordinarily high amounts to make calls, shower and eat and all this going into little macabre Stevie’s pickets.

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Lenny LaSalandra's avatar

He was arrested for breaking and entering at 16. How do you break into a place when you’re in a wheelchair?

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Nancy Elder's avatar

Sending love.

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KillingTheLede's avatar

This is heartbreaking.

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Penny Laneheart's avatar

Thank you for spreading the word. Ice Monsters! Ice Thugs isn’t strong enough anymore, not for these non-humans. They wear masks to avoid accountability for their monstrous behavior. Allowing them to hide their identities has the same effect as their acting in groups — letting them commit sadistic acts without their families and neighbors being aware of the monsters in their midst. Because if it were known who they are, they would be shunned (at a minimum) by their communities. If they thought they could get away with this shit…so did the Nazis. Most of them didn’t.

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