NYC Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, you can tweet out this disingenuous statement a million times. It doesn't change the facts.
Four Rikers guards watched a child, Nicholas Feliciano, hang himself in a cell. One entered the cell, saw him, did nothing and walked out.
Four Rikers guards watched a child, Nicholas Feliciano, hang himself in a cell. One entered the cell, saw him, did nothing and walked out.
In saying the guards didn't "stand there" and watch Nicholas Feliciano attempt suicide, you are clearly trying to obfuscate the truth, because, no, they didn't stand there - they watched it on video monitor.
And we know this because another video monitor shows them doing it.
And we know this because another video monitor shows them doing it.
I know your officers have prevented suicides in other cases, because I have had people I represent attempt suicide at Rikers.
That doesn't mean these guards didn't do what they are accused of doing here.
That doesn't mean these guards didn't do what they are accused of doing here.
Your claim that you deal with people "faking suicide attempts" is troubling, because if you know anything about suicide it is that every attempt needs to be taken seriously.
It's precisely that mindset that would cause your guards to act the way they did.
It's precisely that mindset that would cause your guards to act the way they did.
