A Knoxville Woman Called 911. Instead of Getting Help, She Was Arrested and Placed in Immigration Detention for Months.
Knox County's program authorizing such enforcement activities may have been instituted illegally
10 November 2021
Knox County's program authorizing such enforcement activities may have been instituted illegally
10 November 2021
In November 2020, Maira Oviedo-Granados of Knoxville, Tennessee, called 911 from inside a locked bedroom with her three young children nearby. Her boyfriend came home after beating a man he thought she was having an affair with and she feared for her safety, alleging to a dispatcher that her boyfriend was armed and had tried to grab her. The police arrived and instead arrested Oviedo-Granados for simple assault, as her boyfriend alleged she had struck him during an argument and officers saw marks on his face. Then, because of Oviedo-Granados' citizenship status, authorities sent her to an immigration detention facility ...
A Knoxville Woman Called 911. Instead of Getting Help, She Was Arrested and Placed in Immigration Detention for Months.
Knox County's program authorizing such enforcement activities may have been instituted illegally.
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