TYT: Pepper Sprayed To Death In Jail by Police

[ProfessorPlum]

Holy sh*it. This guy was tortured to death in our own country, and no one will bear any consequences from it.

[oldhippydude]

1. as one who lives with C.O.P.D.

being without my medications would be almost a death sentence.. and im sure the pepper spray hastend the proccess.. that man's wife should sue big!!! i twont right the injustice, but sometimes the only justice is to hit them in the wallet

[leveymg]

2. I don't really want to watch this video. Someone please explain what's going on . . .

or provide a link to a print article about it. Sick, sick shit, more deeply sick shit.

[ihavenobias]

3. The actual pepper spraying is not shown in the video

The video is no more graphic than the image that's shown in the thumbnail above, so feel free to watch (or at least listen to the audio). It's simply a discussion (and the hosts refer to the photo eventually).

62-year-old Nick Christie was restrained, gagged and pepper sprayed up to 10 times in the Lee County Jail in Florida - his death is raising questions about torture and abuse. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/jail-abuse-nick-christie-pepper-spray-florida_n_1192412.html

[leveymg]

6. Thanks.

[Riftaxe]

8. Amazing how much more information you can receive

from a 30 second read versus 6 minutes of a low information video.

[ihavenobias]

9. It's amazing how much more engaging video is for most people

Love it or hate it it's the truth.

In fact articles with video embeds typically have much higher view counts than text alone.

[Riftaxe]

11. Probably the reason today's news Shows

are a very poor parody of former news casts. The knowledge that people are lazy and like shiny things over information

[ihavenobias]

12. It's a tough balance

Unfortunately often times the most substantive stories we cover get the lowest view totals, in-depth interviews on critical issues especially.

[DeathToTheOil]

4. K'd & R'd

With suggestion for immediate frontpaging. Jesus!

[DeathToTheOil]

7. +K

[JJW]

5. Welcome to Amerika

Americans needs to stop electing war criminals. Bush & Obama should be tried at the Hague as war criminals.

Everyone asked why the German citizens didn't stop the concentration camps and Hitler. But look at Americans now, they do nothing. Their concern this election like all prior elections is the economy and how much $$$$ can go into my pocket. Save the planet, doesn't even register. Feed starving children... nope!

[Dawson Leery]

10. I have lost any desire to defend law "enforcement".

They are thugs who do not serve the common people.

[Citizen Worker]

13. Then there are some of our fellow citizens who complain that, "bad teachers can't be fired." Yet

these same people remain quiet when someone is a victim of out of control rioting police. There was a recent incident in Seattle, I believe, where a Native American wood carver was shot and killed by an on duty police officer. This incident was, in part, what caused the US Justice Department to investigate "use of excessive force." The officer resigned and the city attorney announced that criminal charges would not be filed.

I think Cenk and Anna are right when they say this kind of rogue behavior on the part of law enforcement began with the torture of detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo. It is slowly becoming acceptable behavior for police to wantonly and intentionally kill our citizens.

[Downtown Hound]

14. I'm glad that Cenk brought up how allowing torture by our military in the Middle East

has now come back to haunt us at home. One thing that is often never discussed in these police brutality threads is that a HUGE percentage of American police officers are ex-military. It's no acident that our police not only look more and more like an occupying military force, but behave like one too.