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In reply to the discussion: Miranda detention facts: [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)Nothing really happened to him, except that he was questioned and was delayed from his flight for 9 hours. To my knowledge he wasn't beaten or tortured; he wasn't sent to prison or disappeared or banished to a gulag. No one has said they threatened to kill his mother.
I do think they took his iPod away. We could buy him another with a quick fundraiser in a flash.
You know, a lot of people get detained in Britain (and in the US) who aren't released 9 hours later. For instance, people who get picked up and charged with a crime they did not commit and get sent to prison for decades before (if they're lucky) they are proved innocent. (Usually it's because they're black and the prosecutors need to prosecute a crime and it's convenient.) Or people who are put in detention and deported, whether to Mexico or Pakistan. During World War II we detained Japanese-American citizens for years, in camps, far away from their homes.
Why all this rending of garments for Mr. Miranda? Honest, he's fine.