At City Hall vigil, calls for justice for Emmanuel Damas, who died while in ICE custody in Arizona

By Kelly Broder, Special to the Reporter

More than 100 people stood in frigid weather at Boston’s City Hall Plaza Wednesday evening to mourn the death of Emmanuel Damas, the 56-year-old Haitian man who died in an Arizona ICE detention center on March 2.

Latoya Gayle, a candidate for state Senate who volunteers with LUCE Network Massachusetts, said she is outraged by Damas’ treatment in ICE custody.

“He didn’t deserve what happened to him,” Gayle said in an interview. “His family doesn’t deserve this. We don’t need another family to have to deal with that.”