Feb 24, 2026
Blind refugee missing after Border Patrol drop off at store
Immigration agents mistakenly detained the Burmese refugee, who is blind [sic: nearly blind] and speaks no English, then left him at a Tim Hortons to find his way home. He's been missing for five days.
By J. Dale Shoemaker
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He found himself on a woman’s porch just as she was letting her dog out, Macaluso said.
“He comes from a place where people don’t keep dogs,” Macaluso said. “The dog’s freaking out. He’s freaking out. She calls the police and says there’s an unidentified Black man in my driveway.”
When Buffalo police arrived, Macaluso said, they ordered him to drop his curtain rod. But Shah Alam was not able to understand them — or even see them clearly. After not complying with repeated orders, the two officers Tasered him, tackled and beat him, Macaluso said. In the ensuing struggle, the officers suffered minor injuries, Macaluso said.
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https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/24/blind-man-missing-after-border-patrol-dropoff-at-a-tim-hortons/It seems that the initial problem might possibly have been solved if the responding police officers had exercised a greater degree of deliberate discretion or judgment, but without the body camera footage of that incident, who knows?
Is it wrong to call the police if there is a stranger at one's porch? Is that being "some Karen"? If the door were opened with a dog being taken outside, and a person who could barely see is suddenly confronted with a dog, and the dog were to become even mildly aggressive, that might lead to the person who is not used to being around dogs as pets becoming aggressive towards the dog out of fear. So, if one wants to ward off a dog and one has a curtain rod, it would not be unusual to swing the curtain rod at the dog.
Imagine now that is your dog. What do you do? Try to collect the dog and go inside? Go inside and get a gun? Call the police?
What about size differential between the man and the woman? Do women have a historical reason to fear men? Yes.
Anyway, without further information, it seems very unclear what initially happened, but equating calling the police from your own residence to try to resolve a situation does not seem to merit being called "some Karen" in a throw-away post on social media.
There are many scenarios that might plausibly explain why a call to the police would have been perfectly reasonable.
At the point of a police response, it is on the police to exercise restraint and deescalation.
This situation should have been avoidable. The proximate cause of this refugee's senseless death seems to be the potentially highly negligent actions of the officers who seem to have abandoned him in a strange place at a late hour without recourse to help.
It might be best to start by looking at them instead of (possibly fashionably for 'social cred'?) naming someone as "some Karen". After all, if it is not desirable to call the police, people will probably resort to dealing with the situation on their own with their own guns. That cannot be what is to be desired.
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- Somebody needs to go to PRISON--in HELL! 
