Video shows police taunting man before he died in jail: 'You shouldn't be able to breathe'

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/21/william-jennette-tennessee-jail-death-video/

William Jennette begged for help as he sprawled facedown on the floor of a Tennessee jail last May. Half a dozen officers were piled on top of him, pinning his manacled arms, twisting his legs and kneeling on his back.

“I can’t breathe!” the 48-year-old father of five gasped, in a moment captured on video and shared by WTVF. “I can’t breathe!”

One of the officers yelled back, “You shouldn’t be able to breathe, you stupid b------.”

Minutes later, Jennette was dead. A medical examiner found that he had died of a combination of asphyxiation and the interaction of drugs, including methamphetamine — and ruled his death a homicide.

Despite that finding, WTVF reported, a grand jury declined to charge any of the officers involved. Now Jennette’s daughter is suing in federal court, alleging that the video show officers repeatedly ignoring his warnings that he couldn’t breathe — and even laughing out loud at his pleas for help.

There is no justice in this system. "Reforming" it will not somehow introduce justice.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with disgust!

and

[sop]

2. It can't be reformed. The whole system needs to be replaced. It's rotten to the core.

[flying_wahini]

3. Start the reform by stop hiring PTSD vets who think their job is to dominate or kill citizens.

We don’t need any more Bubbas who think their job is to hurt people just because they
Carry a gun.

[uponit7771]

7. +1,

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. +2

[johnthewoodworker]

4. Republican/Nazis love to work in crime. They can hurt anyone.

[YoshidaYui]

5. one word.

@$$#0[3$.

[KS Toronado]

6. Were the grand jury members wearing white robes with eye slotted pointed hats?

[iscooterliberally]

8. If only the victim were a 'ham sandwich' then maybe there would have been indictments.

[Backseat Driver]

9. No legislation will change hearts perfused with hatred.

The victim's use of meth meant he was already on the way out; otherwise he wouldn't have made that bad choice, but in a "system" like ours, is there much "goodness" in rehabilitation where up the ladder there's embedded hatred and discrimination forcing the victim to live in that stew where a life's potential is sucked up and out of reach of most of the lower 99% by the 1% wealthy's developed patterned thoughts of invincibility to circumstances and what constitutes THEIR justice. This surely brings the rest of us to our knees of empathy, compassion and "choice" to respect life itself...a true dilema when many have made a fatally flawed decision because they were born into that system?

I've looked and looked for the criteria by which the wealthy choose those discriminations against the rest of us; we tend to think we've made good choices for "reasons," a lot of them endorsed by the organized government political parties, religious teachings, the knowledge that we're not alone in our strivings for survival...now made even harder by what gets programmed into AI models of behaviors supposed to "make things better" or just more "profitable" for the wealthy with access to just about everything that will maintain that wealth - SMH.

Abusing one's power to cause a death is NEVER acceptable justice and should result in legal consequences...I think the rest of "iffy" choices might slide by under the heading of karma for unwise civil choices made or in coping with individual "reason." I would never want to take those types of choices out of reach...a self-survival selfishness, afterall, preserves the "potential" of how one sees their own or society's future. The older I get, the more head-shaking occurs with internal cries of "why?, why?, why."

[gratuitous]

10. At least the cops had a good time torturing him to death

And half a dozen boys in blue go back to work today.