Dan Leising is Johnny Noviello’s (the deceased Canadian cashier and janitor) lawyer.

In 2023, Noviello was convicted of a number of offences — including racketeering and drug trafficking — and had been sentenced to 12 months in prison, according to the ICE release.

Being sentenced to 364 days, he served time in county jail and was out on probation when he was arrested by ICE in May.

Leising says Noviello had not violated the terms of his probation.

Leising described the charges against Noviello as “very, very serious.” He said Noviello had worked as a cashier and did some janitorial work, and had no prior criminal record.

“Is he violent or anybody that you’d be afraid of if you walked by them on the street? Absolutely not,” said Leising.

Noviello’s death comes as ICE agents are making sweeping arrests across the United States.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and the main architect of U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, has pushed ICE to aim for at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump’s second term.

I’m upset and angry as more deaths will undoubtedly follow. This is 2025 and yet innocent people are still being slaughtered.

We are all human. Everyone just wants to live at minimum a decent life.

Why can’t we simply acknowledge that mass deportations, perpetual hate, and attacking others will not make things better. This is not the way.

I cannot describe the unbelievable frustrations that I have deep inside as a systems analyst. 답답하다

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Please tell your lived ones to escape if you can. You might’ve already heard and seen others saying the same. This is a repeat of similar tragedies and things will only get worse in the short term and it will most likely be quite some time until things get better again in the Dictatorial States of America.