Trump shares graphic video of woman's murder

President Donald Trump shared an extremely graphic video on his Truth Social account late Thursday showing the bludgeoning death of a convenience store clerk.  

Trump said the woman’s brutal murder, allegedly at the hands of a Haitian immigrant, is justification for his administration’s mass deportation of immigrants.

What video did Trump share? 

What we know:

In the video Trump shared, a man can be heard slamming a hammer into a vehicle parked at a convenience store in Fort Myers, Florida. When the convenience store clerk comes out of the store to question him, the man walks up to the woman and immediately swings the hammer at her head. The woman falls down on the sidewalk in front of the gas station’s front doors. The man attacks the woman with the hammer multiple times before stepping over her unmoving body and walking away, out of the frame of the camera.

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The woman who was killed, 51-year-old Nilufa Easmın, is an immigrant from Bangladesh and a mother of two adult daughters.

Rolbert Joachin, 40, was arrested and charged with her murder the same day. Authorities said the man was from Haiti and arrived in the U.S. in 2022. According to the Department of Homeland Security, a federal judge issued a final order of removal against Joachin the same year, but he was granted temporary protection status, which expired in 2024.

What we don't know:

Police haven’t released a motive for the brutal murder. 

What they're saying:

"The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see," Trump said in his post. "This animal was allowed to stay here."

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"As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened."

Trump’s push to end temporary protected status

Big picture view:

Trump has long accused immigrants of bringing crime to the U.S. He shared the video to boost his case for ending legal protections for 350,000 Haitians and people from several other countries.  

The other side:

Critics point out that people living in the U.S. illegally are less likely than native-born Americans to be arrested for violent, drug and property crimes. 

"Our hearts are with the family of the victim during this unimaginably painful time," said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, which advocates for Haitian immigrants. "We condemn this act of violence in the strongest possible terms. But we must also be clear: one individual’s actions do not define an entire people. The exploitation of this tragedy to demonize Haitian immigrants and dismantle humanitarian protections is both unjust and deeply harmful."

The backstory:

The protections for Haitians were first granted in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake and have been extended multiple times. The country is still racked by gang violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Temporary protected status can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary if conditions in home countries are deemed unsafe for return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangers. It is granted in 18-month increments and does not provide a legal pathway to citizenship.

Homeland Security says conditions have improved, though Haitian advocates say "people will almost certainly die" if the Trump administration ends the program. Trump has terminated the protections for Haitians, but they can remain here legally until the Supreme Court decides whether he has the power to do it. 

The Department of Homeland Security has also terminated protections for about 600,000 Venezuelans, 6,100 Syrians, 60,000 people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, more than 160,000 Ukrainians and thousands of people from Afghanistan and Cameroon.