In late August, the sister of Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez posted a tearful video on TikTok in which she announced that her brother had died while detained at the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant jail in Florida.

Rivas Velásquez suffered a severe medical incident on August 5 — captured in real time through a phone call from another detainee that we shared publicly with consent given — and collapsed and lost consciousness. He was left in this state for about seven minutes until guards, who failed to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation properly, finally dragged him away to the nearest hospital, about two hours away.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management, which administers “Alligator Alcatraz,” would not answer questions from Velásquez’s family, lawyer, or the media about his con

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