{"id":73919,"date":"2026-05-23T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/theyre-playing-with-peoples-lives-the-double-amputee-detained-by-ice-speaking-out-at-public-events\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:55:06","slug":"theyre-playing-with-peoples-lives-the-double-amputee-detained-by-ice-speaking-out-at-public-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/theyre-playing-with-peoples-lives-the-double-amputee-detained-by-ice-speaking-out-at-public-events\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re playing with people\u2019s lives\u2019: the double amputee detained by ICE speaking out at public events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With wife Mildred, Rodney Taylor of Atlanta was moved to activism after his detention led to deteriorating health<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Taylor stood outside on a balmy late afternoon recently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/atlanta\">Atlanta<\/a>\u2019s Candler Park neighborhood, relishing his first root beer float in a year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Released on 1 May from Georgia\u2019s Stewart Detention Center, the Liberia-born barber had been detained since 15 February of last year, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a> agents with guns drawn dragged him from his car in front of his house, while his two youngest children, now eight and six, looked on from the back seat. Now he was all smiles, surrounded by family and supporters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/23\/rodney-taylor-amputee-ice-detention-speaking-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With wife Mildred, Rodney Taylor of Atlanta was moved to activism after his detention led to deteriorating health Rodney Taylor stood outside on a balmy late afternoon recently in Atlanta\u2019s Candler Park neighborhood, relishing his first root beer float in a year and a half. Released on 1 May from Georgia\u2019s Stewart Detention Center, the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018They\u2019re playing with people\u2019s lives\u2019: the double amputee detained by ICE speaking out at public events\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/theyre-playing-with-peoples-lives-the-double-amputee-detained-by-ice-speaking-out-at-public-events\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018They\u2019re playing with people\u2019s lives\u2019: the double amputee detained by ICE speaking out at public events\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}