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Pittsburgh’s Public Source filed a request under the Right-to-Know Law asking PRT to release any bus video footage from Feb. 27 through March 2 showing the bus shelter at East Carson Street and the Smithfield Street Bridge that included anyone believed to be Daphy Michel. PRT released several hundred short video snippets, many of which do not clearly include Michel.

Michel died on March 2, four days after departing the Washington County Correctional Facility, where she spent six months awaiting a preliminary hearing on misdemeanor charges of terroristic threats and harassment, which were ultimately dismissed. She was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which fitted her with an ankle bracelet and released her under the agency’s Alternatives to Detention Program on Feb. 28.

Her death chilled the region’s Haitian community, which is centered around Charleroi, where Michel lived. It also raised questions about ICE’s responsibility for the safety of people it detains and then releases.

Time stamps are from the PRT videos and temperatures are from publicly available weather data for the South Side.

Pittsburgh’s Public Source is publishing still images, which more clearly reflect Michel’s status in the shelter, rather than raw video — a decision further informed by our standards around how we portray people in their most vulnerable moments.

Read the full story at publicsource.org

✍️: @sophiaalucentee and @richlord1969. @natashakhanv edited and contributed to the visuals.