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This sort of thing is why I have contempt for the police in traffic situations. All they do is harass you over stupid technicalities that have about as much to do with safety as Kardashians have to do with taste.
Now, some have mentioned his ticket was careless driving, but the same thing can happen over going 0.05 mph at a stop sign (really, we're going to nitpick that they didn't stop all the way, it's not like they zoomed through and almost ran someone over) or for not wearing a seat belt (a totally communist law if there ever was one, and I don't care that the law has now been around for 30 years, it's still wrong). It's all you can do to drive and not be harassed by those "prick-heads" on motorcycles while just trying to live your life getting around (really, the helmets on their heads imply that the word which rhymes with "prickheads" is in fact what they are being in those situations, how many times I've wished a big 18-wheeler would loose control of its brakes and turn them into roadkill). To me, unless you're DWI'ing or blowing through a stop sign or light at real speeds (not 0.05 mph) or driving slowly in the fast lane, they ought to leave motorists the heck alone and stop personally harassing them and separating them from their money under the guise of "safety."
I feel terrible for him, he died and went to jail all because of unpaid traffic tickets. The prison officials have no right to withhold medication that inmates need anyways, so they are responsible. His family should suit.
Driving without a license registration and insurance is public endangerment and repeated offenses should be punished letting people be beaten raped or die from injuries and medical neglect are all failure of the guards to do their job and also is criminal
Watch the video he was arrested for 'careless driving' and no insurance, hardly anything that would present a great danger to the public. He should have been able to work the fine off through a sheriff's work program, there was NO reason for him to die and there is no justification for what happened to him
He was a junkie. Hard to feel sorry for someone who chooses to do drugs - prescription or otherwise.
If he paid his ticket instead of buying drugs, he might be alive today. He might not.
You would do well to watch the video, he was being treated by a doctor to get off drugs, he was being prescribed methadone and xanax. It's more dangerous to withdraw from methadone without medical intervention than it is heroin
That's right. He didn't and he got what he had coming to him.
In case you don't get it, resources are limited and we can't waste them on narcissistic people like that.
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So careless driving and no insurance deserves a death sentence..wow, just wow. The guy was seeing a doctor for his addiction, he was being prescribed methadone and xanax. Did you even bother to watch the video?
They really did treat him worse than many animals are treated. The whole thing was preventable and very sad.
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