'They Used a Five-Year-Old as Bait' - jojofromjerz
"In the photo, Liam Ramos looks impossibly small inside the frame, a child reduced to scale against adult power. A backpack sits on his back, too large for his body, the kind that still holds worksheets and half-finished thoughts and the ordinary weight of a day that was supposed to end at home. His posture is tentative, angled toward the adults around him, caught in that suspended stillness children have when they’re waiting to be told what to do next. Beside him stands a masked ICE agent, face covered, body armored, presence looming. The imbalance is unmistakable. Liam looks like a boy expecting an explanation. He looks like a boy who believes one is coming."
"They took a child who had just come home from school and immediately understood what he offered them: a small body that would comply, a child who would do what he was asked, a boy who still believed adults were safe. They stood close enough to know he wouldn’t run or refuse. They relied on the part of him that trusted, and they used it."
"They stood a five-year-old at his own front door in Minneapolis and told him to knock."
"A child small enough that the world still organized itself around simple truths—do what adults tell you, home is safe, obedience leads to care—lifted his hand and did exactly what he was told. He knocked. Not knowing what that knock would open. Not knowing who else it would call forward. In that moment, they asked a child to do something no child should ever be asked to do, and he did it because he trusted them."
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https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/they-used-a-five-year-old-as-bait?r=r38w4&utm_medium=ios
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