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I understand much of the general public, law enforcement and health care workers are fed up with dealing with addicts but what happened to this woman seems deplorable and inexcusable in my opinion.
****video isn't horribly graphic, shows her behavior at the time of arrest, her behavior while in the cell, at the end her body is removed but that may be disturbing to some (it is covered).
Just more evidence that we have two systems of justice in this country. One for government agents, and one for everyone else. If they were not government agents they would have been arrested on the spot and sent to prison. It's just like when cops shoot someone and the DA announces that the cops actions were not justified under the law, but declines to prosecute them, because they have already been fired by the police department. Being fired is not a penalty for committing a crime. Going to prison like anyone else, is the penalty for committing a crime.
Extremely negligent and inhumane. They found her cold and unresponsive and then still left her there dead for hours.
And the one guys "punishment" was early retirement. They also got him a bonus for a larger pension/better benefits. I guess that's what you get for not doing you job and someone dying.
Idc if she was addict, she was also a human being.
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Extremely negligent and inhumane. They found her cold and unresponsive and then still left her there dead for hours.
And the one guys "punishment" was early retirement. They also got him a bonus for a larger pension/better benefits. I guess that's what you get for not doing you job and someone dying.
Idc if she was addict, she was also a human being.
I agree, this case is awful.
The lack of human compassion, and the decision by a guard to withhold what he must have known was a potentially deadly situation, and then to leave her there dead is beyond excuse.
Sorry, but I have zero sympathy for this woman. Totally self inflicted. You reap what you sow.
It's really not about sympathy for the person in this case.
It's about an expectation that the government will properly safeguard individuals in its charge. An incarcerated person is a ward of the state. The state has an obligation - a moral obligation - to assure basic levels of safety and care.
Really, it's about you and I. That's who the state is: us. We are the state. I expect the state not to abandon people in cells to die. What about you? I guess you're cool with that.
Hopefully, it's never anyone you happen to care about who finds themselves, unconvicted, in state custody and ignored and left to die. But I suppose you imagine that the state is so perfect and infallible that this only happens to 'those who deserve it' (you, of course, being the supreme arbiter of who deserves what).
It's really not about sympathy for the person in this case.
It's about an expectation that the government will properly safeguard individuals in its charge. An incarcerated person is a ward of the state. The state has an obligation - a moral obligation - to assure basic levels of safety and care.
Really, it's about you and I. That's who the state is: us. We are the state. I expect the state not to abandon people in cells to die. What about you? I guess you're cool with that.
Hopefully, it's never anyone you happen to care about who finds themselves, unconvicted, in state custody and ignored and left to die. But I suppose you imagine that the state is so perfect and infallible that this only happens to 'those who deserve it' (you, of course, being the supreme arbiter of who deserves what).
yada, yada. Moralize all you want but the "arbiter of who deserves it" was in this case the woman who died. Not me, not you.
Idc if she was addict, she was also a human being.
Thank you for this line. I am pretty appalled at this story.
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Being fired is not a penalty for committing a crime. Going to prison like anyone else, is the penalty for committing a crime.
