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https://www.theroot.com/florida-inmate-starves-to-death-unable-to-reach-his-fo-1849668781
My neck is broke. Im paralyzed, said Craig Ridley from a wheelchair. Youre bullsh*tting. Youre just trying to get a lawsuit, responded a corrections officer.
Ridley laid on the floor of his cell for the next five days pleading for help as officers dropped trays of food he couldnt reach. Just hours before, officers tackled him to the ground, dislocating his neck. A report by the Miami Herald, including details from a 383-page investigation by The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has shined a light on the hidden story of Ridleys death.
FDLEs report found Ridley died because of his injuries and starvation. His fellow inmates and family members told investigators his death may have been a cover up.
Ridley was sentenced to a 20-year mandatory minimum on attempted murder charges in 2007. The morning of Sept. 8, 2017, correctional officers got into a struggle with Ridley, tackling him to the ground face first. According to the video footage, he was brought a wheelchair after telling the officers he couldnt walk. He was taken to solitary confinement and officers propped up him on the cells toilet. He fell over, breaking his nose.
An inmate signaled to the officers that Ridley was lying in a pool of his own blood. Ridley was finally taken to see a doctor, Jean Dure, who concluded there was nothing wrong with him and conducted no neurology tests despite the lifeless appearance of Ridleys limbs and his inability to move on his own, according to the FDLE.
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50 Shades Of Blue
(9,999 posts)Celerity
(43,383 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)Celerity
(43,383 posts)erronis
(15,264 posts)are too able to do their own injustices with impunity. And these horrors are usually what make the news.
Getting rid of states rights and implementing universal national rights would be a huge step forward. France did in with its myriad of provinces with their own idiosyncrasies and redrew the country into departments.
As far as I know, most of the abysmal human rights abuses happen in a few states - won't impugn any but Southern comes to mind.
Celerity
(43,383 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,348 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,348 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Or would this have been a major scandal which would have derailed any political ambitions.?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,348 posts)political ambitions? Lol, lmao.
brush
(53,778 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,102 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 18, 2022, 08:35 PM - Edit history (1)
marble falls
(57,093 posts)... happened in an animal enclosure system, people'd been fired and arrested.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)...
spanone
(135,838 posts)MuseRider
(34,109 posts)you get worse. I think of how many people who saw this happening and let it go and I just want to leave this insane, cruel, brutal country. How many people from all the jobs in a jail thought to do something about this?
I do not care what he did, this is not right. Murder (maybe) gets murder for sure from those who house him. Of the two here who is the obvious criminal?
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)electric_blue68
(14,903 posts)That was like revenge (death for a murderer when not state sanctioned [I'm against it]) instead of justice (being in prison).
2naSalit
(86,631 posts)Really bad happens to every one of the fuckers involved in this.
yardwork
(61,622 posts)DFW
(54,387 posts)I would prosecute the perpetrators accordingly
SarcasticSatyr
(1,178 posts)There are two kinds of cops, the bad ones and the ones that look the other way. There are no good cops .... none
MontanaMama
(23,317 posts)Including the "doctor". My gawd. This makes me sick.
Orrex
(63,213 posts)live love laugh
(13,113 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,425 posts)Marthe48
(16,963 posts)another horror story
Cruel inhuman monsters killed this man.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Is it? That is who to blame. Could that happen in another system? The security cops who did this knew they could
get away with it, and have .......absolutely NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL
tHIS STORY WAS KEPT SECRET FOR A PURPOSE. i WONDER IF THE ELECTION COMING UP WILL PROVIDE A
CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP? THAT IS NOT UP TO ME, I LIVE IN ANOTHER STATE.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)I GUESS DE SANTIS RUNS THE FLORIDA PRISON SYSTEM, ULTIMATELY. HE WAS GOVERNOR IN 2017, OR WAS IT
SOMEONE ELSE?
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)And Scott believes that this will be forgotten in 2 years. & Scott doesn't give a s**t, except that this has come
out now, and De Santis might lose because of this. ......AND THIS IS NOW PUBLIC INFORMATION,
SO SCOTT WILL HAVE TO CONTEND WITH IT IN THE FUTURE.
This story is truly HORRIFIC