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Pierre Damas Bel was someone's baby. He deserves better.

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03.09.2026

This column discusses suicide. If you or someone you know needs mental health resources and support, please call, text or chat with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or visit 988lifeline.org for 24/7 access to free and confidential services.

Supporters and some family members of a 20-year-old Ohio college student say the young Haitian was so humiliated after being bullied about the ankle monitor our government forced him to wear that he threw himself under a moving semitrailer truck.

The tragedy shook many, while others took the young man's death as an opportunity for evil.

"I call it a savings and a plane ticket not to buy," one person commented under a Columbus Dispatch Facebook post on Gov. Mike DeWine's reaction to the Aug. 31 death of Wright State University student Pierre Damas Bel.

Like 350,000 other Haitian immigrants, Bel was stripped of his Temporary Protected Status as part of President Donald Trump's ruthless campaign against immigrants, particularly those who were not born with ivory skin.

"I think we have to ask ourselves: Is this really good? Is it what we want done to people like........

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