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Six days after Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody under circumstances so suspicious they spawned a thousand conspiracy theories, officials at the Manhattan Correctional Center allegedly shredded "huge amounts" of paperwork, according to a newly revealed FBI report obtained by Raw Story.

Let's call this what it is: obstruction of justice. Not "document disposal" or "routine administrative procedures" or whatever euphemism the Bureau of Prisons will undoubtedly deploy. When a high-profile prisoner dies under your watch and your immediate response is to fire up the paper shredders, you are destroying evidence. Full stop.

The timing here is not coincidental. Six days. Just long enough to assess the magnitude of the scrutiny coming, just short enough to act before formal evidence preservation orders could be issued. This is the institutional equivalent of flushing drugs down the toilet when you hear the sirens.

This revelation confirms what anyone with functioning critical thinking skills suspected from day one: the official story of Epstein's death was being actively obscured by the very people charged with preserving the integrity of federal detention. When guards "fall asleep" simultaneously, cameras "malfunction" mysteriously, and documents get shredded systematically, you are not witnessing a series of unfortunate coincidences. You are witnessing a cover-up.

But here's the real crime: the American people watched this happen in real time and did precisely nothing about it. No mass protests demanding answers. No sustained pressure on representatives. No organized boycotts of the systems that enabled this farce. The public witnessed the most obvious destruction of evidence in a case involving the most powerful people on earth, and they responded with memes and moved on to the next outrage cycle.

The Bureau of Prisons operates with your tax dollars under your Constitution. When they allegedly shred evidence in a case this consequential, they are not just violating their professional obligations—they are violating your right as a citizen to know what your government does in your name. Every American who pays taxes funded those shredders. Every American who votes empowered the officials who ordered their use.

Sources: - Raw Story: FBI Report: Prison Officials Destroyed Documents After Epstein Death

Royer Perez-Jimenez is dead. He was a teenager. He was Mexican. He died while being held in United States immigration custody. The BBC reports his death occurred "amid a surge of migrant deaths under Donald Trump's immigration crackdown."

Let us pause at that word: "crackdown." The media deploys this term as if it were policy analysis rather than marketing copy from the perpetrators themselves. A crackdown is what you do to crime rings and drug cartels. What you do to children seeking refuge is something else entirely. It has other names. The people implementing it know what those names are.

The death of Royer Perez-Jimenez is not an unfortunate side effect of immigration enforcement. It is the predictable result of a system designed to inflict maximum suffering on the most vulnerable humans who encounter it. The system is working exactly as intended. The architects of this system — and the voters who installed them — knew children would die. They proceeded anyway.

This is what "surge of migrant deaths" actually means: the United States government is killing children in custody at an accelerated rate. These are not deaths that happen to coincide with policy implementation. These are deaths that policy implementation produces. The distinction matters because accountability requires accuracy.

The American people possess constitutional tools to stop child deaths in government custody. They have voting rights, protest rights, jury duty, the power to elect prosecutors and judges and sheriffs and city council members who could refuse to participate in this machinery. They have economic power to pressure the corporations that build and supply and profit from these facilities. They have the power to recall officials, to pass ballot initiatives, to primary incumbents, to flood every level of government with candidates who will not kill children.

They are not using these tools. Royer Perez-Jimenez is dead partly because officials implemented lethal policy, and partly because the citizenry that employs those officials chose not to stop them. Both facts matter. Both facts demand attention.

The euphemism here is not just "crackdown." It is "immigration custody" itself — a phrase that transforms kidnapping and imprisonment into bureaucratic process. Royer Perez-Jimenez was not in "custody." He was imprisoned by the United States government for the act of existing while Mexican and seeking safety. He died in that prison. The United States government killed a Mexican child.

Call it what it is.

Oh good, another government discovered that the best way to handle protests about authoritarianism is more authoritarianism. Shocking development there.

Iran has executed Saleh Mohammadi, a teenager and member of the country's national wrestling team, for his alleged role in killing police officers during the ongoing anti-government protests. According to the BBC, "Saleh Mohammadi, a member of Iran's national wrestling team, was found guilty of killing police officers alongside two other men, state media say."

Because nothing says 'we're the good guys' like executing teenagers. Mohammadi's crime, according to state media, was participating in protests that turned deadly. The same protests that began as a response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody for the crime of wearing her hijab incorrectly. The irony would be delicious if it weren't written in blood.

I've covered enough authoritarian crackdowns to know the playbook by heart. Step one: peaceful protests emerge. Step two: escalate violence against protesters. Step three: when protesters fight back, call them terrorists. Step four: execute them as examples. Iran's just running the standard script, except they're doing it to their own Olympic-level athletes now.

This isn't just about one wrestler. This is about a regime so threatened by its own people that it's willing to execute the young men and women who represent the country on international stages. Mohammadi trained his body to compete for Iran's honor abroad, and Iran's response was to destroy that body for demanding basic human dignity at home.

The execution comes as Iran continues its systematic crackdown on the protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic since Mahsa Amini's death in September 2022. Hundreds have been killed. Thousands imprisoned. And now, they're moving to the final phase: state-sanctioned murder as deterrence. Because apparently beating protesters to death in the streets wasn't sending a clear enough message.

Here's what kills me about this story: somewhere in Tehran, there's probably a wrestling coach who trained Mohammadi, who watched him grow from a kid with potential into a national team member. And now that coach has to live in a country that executed his student for wanting basic human rights. That's the Iran the mullahs are building – one that devours its own children.