One Trump voter issued a tear-filled video regretting his decision to vote for the president after his brother, who served with U.S. special forces, died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In a video posted to social media, Naseer Paktyawal tearfully recalled his brother’s service to the country and the moment that ICE “kidnapped” him in front of his son, Imrin. ABC News initially posted the video.
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“I saw two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars,” Paktyawal said. “One on the driver’s side, one on the back of his car, and grabbed him from his seat and put a handcuff on him.”
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal’s son, Imrin, was also featured in the video and recalled witnessing his father’s arrest. “I was standing there, and then they came and just take him,” the boy said.
Imrin added that he was “standing there” as the agents hauled his father away. “I was like, just don’t take him, please,” Imrin recalled.
According to Paktyawal, he later received a call from an ICE facility. “I thought they were going to release him back,” Imrin said.
“He said, ‘Are you, Naseer?’ That’s me,” Paktyawal said. “Your brother Mohamed Nasir Paktyawal passed away this morning and his body is laying down in a parking lot in the hospital.”
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“My first vote was for this president, and I regret it, and I’m gonna regret it for the rest of my life,” he added. “Because of me, because of my voting, He got arrested, and he lost his life. And I’m never going to forgive myself for that.”
CNN reported that he was taken by ICE agents outside of his Dallas apartment and died less than a day after being in ICE custody. His family said that Mohammad had no known health conditions and had been seeking asylum in the U.S. since his arrival in 2021.
I feel sorry for the kid but Naseer can fuck right off. He voted for this to happen to other people and I’m quite sure those feelings have not changed.
Oh, you didn’t care when it was someone else’s father/brother being kidnapped and murdered, but tears when it’s your own? Fuck you, I wish you have the day you voted for.
How about you feel regret when you realise your vote did this to other people? Actually wait, I hope you are the next person the ice goons target.
No, him living a long, long life with his choice would be far beyond anything they could do to him.
Think about it: you had the perfect brother who survived horrific wars fighting for you, then you got him killed because you thought some people should have less rights than others, or because you wanted eggs cheaper I guess.
And the funny thing is, he didn’t even get cheaper eggs.
But the thing is, most of these maga shit heads lack basic empathy. The only time it really hurts is when it’s them. Just them. And I am tired of seeing other people pay for their shitty choices
Their lives are based 100% around their group. The group betraying them is unthinkable, so they eat up whatever their group says.
He was a first time voter, Trump made all sorts of promises and accusations, guy probably just ate that garbage up.
Humans are very very disappointing. The implications are quite severe when you put it all together.
You voted for the man that literally said he was going to do this, why did you think it didnt mean your family???
Just fucking stupid hateful bullshit. You literally wanted this and are sad it affected you directly. He isnt different than he ever was. He’s doing exactly what he said he would.
My pity is reserved for your victims. You deserve only scorn.
Regret it?! Spend the rest of your fucking life fighting against it or stfu and stay out of my face.
There’s a pathway to redemption, you need to look to what Luigi did. Speaking of course about my favorite game Luigi’s Haunted Mansion where he breaks into a mansion and eradicates all the demons.
Good deeds don’t make the bad ones right. I’m not a believer in redemption in general, and especialy not this kind.
But yeah, at least he will be useful for something.
Sucks to suck, fuckass. You got what you voted for. Have fun with that.
I’m fresh fucking out of sympathy for people who don’t care about - or, as we see here, full-throatedly support - the fascists until it personally affects them.
Heartbreaking.
For his brother, yes. For him? Nah, fuck his regret and I hope he gets a gigantic hole in his gut that eats him alive from .the inside out
There is no functional difference between a society that rejects mercy and forgiveness for those who repent their actions and the society fascists want to create.
I’d say be better, Lemmings in these comments, but y’all are clearly far too absorbed in your own self righteousness, like any other villain.
Some are a bit hash. But if my wife, or my daughter, or I am killed in a fascist concentration camp, I hope people laugh at my dumbass family that enabled it too.
I’d say be better, Lemmings in these comments, but y’all are clearly far too absorbed in your own self righteousness, like any other villain.
that’s a particularly egregious false equivalence. Your take would leave folks who don’t feel empathy and forgiveness for the drunk driver runs over 5 children at a school crossing as the same (like any other villain) as the driver themself. One a forseeable action resulting in death, pain and suffering (how he voted) the other is dismissive of his crocodile tears ? and you suggest those two are both villainous ?
IMO the brother is guilty of culpable homicide, he didn’t “pull the trigger” but the outcome was foreseeable
