Source (http://"http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/23/lee-county-deputies-tied-suspect-to-a-ch")
QuoteFrom Fox 13 in Tampa comes the horrifying story of Nick Christie (http://"http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/investigates/photo-shows-pepper-sprayed-prisoner-12142011"), a 62-year-old Ohio man who was detained by the Lee County Sheriff's Office for being publicly intoxicated. While Christie's wife asked that he be taken to the hospital, Lee County cops decided instead to strip Christie naked, tie him to a chair, cover his face, and then pepper spray him repeatedly, until he died:
QuoteThe District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff's office of any wrong doing.
It's been more than two and a half years and his wife still can't accept what happened.
"I was shocked. This was something out of a horror movie," says Joyce Christie. She said her husband was depressed and was showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving for Florida.
She called authorities and pleaded with them to take her husband to a hospital and be given his medications. Instead, he was taken to jail for disorderly intoxication.
Her lawsuit alleges he was pepper sprayed 10 times over a 48-hour period, at times while in a restraint chair.
Monshay Gibbs was a deputy trainee at the jail at the time. In a video deposition, she testified that she thought the way Nick Christie was treated was excessive.
"He had a spit mask on and was naked," she said on the video while under oath. Gibbs testified that Christie pleaded with guards to take off the spit mask because he couldn't breathe.
Gee, more scumbag cops. What a shock...
More importantly, more scumbag cops who get away completely unpunished.
Everyone says how terrible things would be with anarchy. Seems to me, there already is anarchy for cops and politicians and bureaucrats!
Quote from: MrBogosity on December 24, 2011, 10:38:19 AM
Everyone says how terrible things would be with anarchy. Seems to me, there already is anarchy for cops and politicians and bureaucrats!
Well if it wasn't obvious enough already, people should realize that the rule makers never have to play by the rules they make.
The part that's even worse, is that people still trust cops. Just look at this Cracked article. Extreme irony at the second spot:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19598_6-horrifying-implications-classic-christmas-movies_p2.html
QuoteWe're talking about the fact that the McCallisters seem to live in a nightmarish version of Chicago where the cops are incompetent, evil or flat out nonexistent.
As opposed to the normal universe, where the cops...um... exist? That's pretty much it.
QuoteAfter being bounced around by two highly dismissive officers, the police begrudgingly agree to send someone to the house, presumably while rolling their eyes so hard that they actually physically leave their heads and go bouncing around the precinct.
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But don't worry! A cop does finally intervene in Kevin's affairs -- when he accidentally steals a toothbrush. Then it's on: The Chicago PD is on the scene, folks, and they are going to chase this son of a bitching child down for wanting healthy teeth.
Are you guys thinking, what I am thinking? This is COMPLETELY in line with what cops ACTUALLY DO on a daily basis.
Just going to leave this here:
http://memegenerator.net/instance/11742556 (http://memegenerator.net/instance/11742556)