Ex NFL player Glenn Foster Jr. dies in police custody

[tulipsandroses]

REFORM, Ala. -- Arrested after reportedly driving twice the speed limit through a rural Alabama community, former NFL player Glenn Foster Jr. wound up in a jail where he allegedly beat up another prisoner while trying to steal socks, authorities said. Foster showed signs of mental instability during a court appearance, records show, and a judge ordered him held for an evaluation just hours before he died in custody.

It was still a mystery Wednesday exactly what caused Foster's death, and Alabama state police said they were investigating.

Foster's parents said he had been diagnosed with mental problems, and they told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate that they fear their son might not have received proper care while he was in custody
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Based on police observations and how Foster behaved, the judge said Foster was "not mentally stable and a danger to himself and others" and ordered him held without bond for a mental evaluation at Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility in Tuscaloosa.

. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32821074/former-new-orleans-saints-player-glenn-foster-jr-dies-following-arrest-fight-involving-police%3fplatform=amp

Why was he not taken to a psych facility for an evaluation? So you think he’s a danger to himself and other people but you keep him in a jail cell with other prisoners?

[Hekate]

2. Brain damage from his years of football?

Damn

[tulipsandroses]

3. He was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder when he was 20 yrs old

Sounds like he was having a manic episode
His dad said his illness was well managed until the day of his arrest.
The constant hits over the years may have been a factor perhaps.

[malaise]

7. THIS

is probably the source

[Deuxcents]

4. Alabama

Sounds like a lack of training n protocol at the facility n cops n their department. So sad another young man dies from neglect.

[orleans]

6. my first thought was "is he black?"

thinking that might partially explain why he wasn't taken for a psych eval or watched closely. followed by alabama (white cops?)
so i googled.
yes, he's black.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. RIP. He was just 31YO. More detail in this NOLA article....

Ex-Saint Glenn Foster died after a police chase, jail fight, and desperate bid to get medical help
BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS AND MIKE PERLSTEIN | Staff writer and WWL-TV
Published Dec 7, 2021 at 4:13 pm | Updated Dec 8, 2021 at 3:59 am
NOLA.COM

Link: https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_a85d58d2-57a7-11ec-adc2-4b90194bef92.amp.html

snips....

Police slowed Foster by placing a “spike strip” across the road, flattening all four of Foster’s tires. “He drove on the wrong side, he ran a couple of cars off the road, but he ended up slowing down in kind of a rolling roadblock,” Black said.

He subsequently climbed a curb and crashed into a business, Black said. Black said Foster engaged in a “small, minor tussle” with officers, but nobody appeared to get hurt, and officers handcuffed Foster and drove him to the Pickens County Jail. They booked him on counts of reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and attempting to elude police.
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When the family arrived in Reform on Sunday, Black said he was able to summon a judge, who allowed the family to post a $500 cash bail for his release on the condition that Foster go to the hospital as planned. The police chief and family arrived at the jail Sunday and the hospital was prepared to admit Foster, Black said. But while they were waiting in the sallyport to get Foster, “something happened,” Black said.

“We went to bond him out and something happened at the jail and they wouldn’t let us get him,” Black said. “I really don’t know medically what was going on, but based on what I learned, it was not normal.” According to Foster’s father, Black told him that the chief followed sheriff’s deputies as they drove him in a patrol cruiser — rather than an ambulance — to a hospital about a half-hour away from the jail, instead of the facility in Birmingham. Foster Sr. said he understands his son was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital.

The “something happened” was he apparently got in a fight with another inmate and the guy he beat up had to be hospitalized. Complicated mess and very sad.

He had rebuilt his life after leaving pro football and was running a number of businesses including two marble countertop outlets.

May his family find peace.......

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. FTP.

[Coventina]

9. I can't speak for Alabama, but here in Maricopa County in the days of Sheriff Joe

It was SOP to refuse inmates their meds after arrest.