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ICE said the Canadian was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day.

Cause of death: American fascism.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    36·
    14 hours ago

    ICE said that after Noviello was found unresponsive, medical staff “immediately” performed CPR and used an electronic defibrillator to try and revive him, before calling 911.

    This could be something lost in translation, which does happen a lot with news articles

    But that specific phrasing, that they performed CPR and used a defibrillator before calling 911 rubs me the wrong way

    Basically the moment you determine CPR or a defibrillator might possibly be needed, someone should be calling 911 unless you are already in a hospital.

    Bringing someone back with CPR is basically a statistical anomaly, most of the time all it does is buy you a bit of extra time to get them to a hospital.

    And defibrillators, especially automatic ones, are only effective for certain abnormal heart rhythms (AEDs only do ventricular fibrilation, manual defibrillators can handle a couple more things, but contrary to what movies may have you think, you’re not going to “restart” anyone’s heart who’s flatlining with a defibrillator, it’s more like turning the heart off and hoping it restarts itself and stops doing what it was doing before, more of a reboot than a jumpstart)

    I don’t know what kind of medical staff and equipment they have on-hand at an ICE detention center, but I somehow doubt they have a well-enough-equipped medical center that they’re prepared to handle a cardiac arrest 100% in-house with no need to send them out to a hospital.

    • Winthrowe@lemmy.ca
      5·
      6 hours ago

      They have the medical capacity to handle a cardiac arrest as well as they wanted to. Death is a perfectly acceptable outcome for them.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    57·
    16 hours ago

    So… guy was convicted of distributing prescription drugs, claimed to be not guilty, accepted a plea deal, served his time, got his community service commuted to probation, presumably due to unlikelihood to reoffend, THEN got picked up by ICE to be deported to a country he hasn’t lived in for 34 years, and winds up mysteriously dead in custody.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Lesson here: Don’t accept a plea deal if you’re not born in the US to US citizens, unless you’re OK to be deported when your plea deal ends.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      11 hours ago

      You missed on one detail: he was a full on MAGA, sharing posts about enforcing US immigration laws and the unstoppable Trump Train.

      • javiwhite@feddit.ukEnglish
        11·
        13 hours ago

        It specifies all of what they said in the article OP linked.

        Midway through it mentions he migrated to the states in 1991 (which was ~34 years ago), and the final paragraph of the article is:

        Noviello was charged with trafficking oxycodone and other illegal drugs, as well as racketeering and using a two-way communication device to facilitate criminal activity. He pleaded guilty to all charges in September 2023 after withdrawing an earlier plea of not guilty. In February of this year, a judge granted Noviello’s request to convert the remainder of his two-year supervised community control sentence to probation