Kristi Noem Spreads Bizarre, Unsubstantiated Story About Detaining A Cannibal

[Jilly_in_VA]

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem added another dehumanizing label on Tuesday to her list of descriptors meant to justify the rounding up of migrants: cannibals.

The Republican joined President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in touring the state’s controversial new migrant detention facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The facility is a product of the Trump administration’s wider ongoing effort to incarcerate and deport the country’s immigrant population.

At a roundtable following the tour, Noem repeated her previous accusations that media outlets like CNN are lying “every single day about what these operations are” — and echoed the GOP talking point that the Department of Homeland Security is “going after murderers and rapists and traffickers and drug dealers.”

Then the secretary began telling a bizarre story about how U.S. marshals working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told her they detained a cannibal and put him on a deportation flight. (Watch the video below.)

“And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself. And they had to get him off and get him medical attention,” she told reporters. “These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America, that we’re trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don’t belong here.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi-noem-bizarre-story-detaining-cannibal_n_68643148e4b06a831253e0b2

LIar, liar, pants on fire...God, I wish they were, and she would combust on national TV!

[Ocelot II]

1. People who (allegedly) try to eat themselves aren't cannibals; they are mentally ill

and in need of immediate medical attention, "deranged," but probably not dangerous to anyone but themselves.

[The Blue Flower]

2. She's the one who's deranged

Anyone who'd even imagine a story like that has many screws loose.

[Ping Tung]

3. She has a photo proving it!

[johnnyfins]

4. This is a little to close to TSFs Hannibal

Lecter fetish to be true...

[Emile]

5. Wondering if this cannibal kills dogs too.

[Arazi]

6. Mentally ill people will self-harm when under stress

While I doubt the “cannibal” aspect of the story altogether, if a mentally ill person was snatched and their meds withheld for who knows how long, I’m guessing they went off the rails (which may have included biting themselves) once deportation transportation actually occurred.

They may have never flown before either (major fear and stress).

This story (if true) only makes her and DHS look even more monstrous.