TWIN CITIES, Minn. — Four days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, federal agents in St. Paul constrained the airflow to a man’s neck until he became unconscious.
Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano, a Honduran national, was at a Speedway on Sunday afternoon when a dozen masked Border Patrol officers suddenly swarmed his vehicle. They demanded he roll down his window and show his papers. When he didn’t comply, they shattered the window and dragged him out, pressing him against the ground until his body went limp. They carried him into a dark, unmarked van and drove away.
Watching the video of his arrest on Monday, his sister Consuelo was sure he was dead. It wasn’t until a day later that she could confirm he had survived – and that he’d been sent to an infamous detention tent camp in Texas. She told HuffPost she was able to speak to him for “a few seconds” over the phone…