I guess it is shocking and suspicious that Jeffrey Epstein died while incarcerated because it is Jeffrey Epstein, but people die in jails and prisons every day in video monitored cells or while on suicide-watch and no one blinks. appealpolitics.org/2019/jail-deat…
Two people die in county jails every day. That's just county jails, not prisons. In Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland, Ohio, 9 people have died in the past year, 5 by suicide. Most recently, in May, Nicholas Colbert, a 36-year-old army veteran. theappeal.org/veterans-death…
Kelly Coltrain was in a video-monitored cell. She had a seizure and stopped moving for 6 hours. A guard came and checked on her. She was dead, but he left her there until the next morning. Video footage in this case also went missing. wusa9.com/article/news/n…
Before being admitted to Erie County jail on February 1, 2016, India Cummings had no criminal history or known mental health problems. By February 21, she was dead - her death ruled a homicide - 1 of 24 people to die under Sheriff Timothy Howard's watch. theappeal.org/24-prisoners-h…
Madison Jensen begged staff at a Utah jail for help when she went into withdrawal, violently vomiting & excreting diarrhea. They ignored her. Four days after being admitted & weighing just 87 lbs, having lost a shocking 42 lbs, she died of dehydration. theappeal.org/utah-jail-nurs…
The prison guard who anonymously sent 2,000 photos taken inside an Alabama prison to @splcenter, wrote, "I can’t help but wonder if the public knows just how bad these men are treated."
@splcenter@nytimes We literally ignore that people are dying every day in our jails and prisons, until a rich White man does. And even then there is only real interest because there is a conspiracy theory angle.
@splcenter@nytimes Don't get me wrong. Jeffrey Epstein's death should be investigated. It is super troubling.
So should all the other deaths of people in jails in prisons. Their lives are just as valuable and they deserve just as much justice.
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William Farwell, who lied about continuing to have a sexual relationship with Sandra even after she was pregnant with his brother's child, was last week decertified by MA's police oversight agency.
It's not each cop's entire BWC. It's a 17 minute NYPD PR video where the incident is narrated from NYPD perspective and snippets of BWC and other video are included.
Police officers are meant to deescalate not escalate situations.
Mr. Mickles jumps the turnstile.
They see Mr. Mickles is carrying a knife in his back pocket but it is a knife he is legally allowed to carry so that is not a crime.
In 2022, Lynda Espinoza's 16-year-old daughter was murdered; 2 weeks later cops killed her 13-year-old son. TX then removed her other children claiming the deaths "while in her custody demonstrated negligence & possible danger to others."
The police shot and killed her son Andre Hernandez Jr during a pursuit of an allegedly stolen car. A cop fired into the moving vehicle as it was driving away from him The child immediately got out of the car and put his hands up. He died in hospital.
NYC DOC Commissioner Louis Molina lied when he said Joshua Valles, 31, who was incarcerated on Rikers Island, died of a heart attack on Monday with no foul play or official wrongdoing suspected.
In fact an autopsy revealed Mr. Valles died of a skull fracture.
Mr. Valles, who had no criminal record, was being held on $10,000 bond on a burglary charge. That's a non-violent offense and he was only able to be held, under rollbacks to NY's bail reform laws, because he also had a pending petit larceny case.
Once he was hospitalized and already on life support, Mr Valles' lawyers at @nyc_defenders were able to petition for his release on "compassionate" grounds.
@malarkeymags wrote an excellent thread on this part of the story of Joshua Valles' death.
Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith kicked a handcuffed Afghan man off a cliff and then ordered him shot; shot a teenage prisoner point-blank in the head; and gunned down a disabled man, whose prosthetic leg SAS soldiers later used to drink beer.
Today, he lost his defamation case against three major Australian newspapers who reported that Roberts Smith killed six prisoners while on duty in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.
Australian defamation laws are much tighter than here. The only defense the newspapers had was truth and so Roberts-Smith's conduct in Afghanistan (as well as that of Australia's special forces) was put on trial in a way almost akin to a criminal trial.
Sheldon Thomas spent 19 years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder after cops knowingly used a photo of a different Black man (with the same name) in a photo array and a witness identified him. His judge, then an appeal court, said it didn't matter because they looked alike.
Sheldon was just 17 when he was arrested and charged with murder.
He is pictured on the right. The photo of the person cops placed in the photo array is on the left.
But that wasn't the only flaw in this case. BK DA admits the cops lied on the stand and witnesses were coerced. All of this was known as early as 2004 and there's no explanation as to why it took so long for Mr. Thomas' conviction to be overturned.