Posted on 07/31/2013 2:11:42 PM PDT by bestintxas
The Justice Department has agreed to pay $4.1 million to a California college student left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell last year, according to two people familiar with the case.
Daniel Chong was detained in an April 2012 drug raid in San Diego and left in a windowless holding cell for four days without food or water. He says he drank his own urine to stay alive.
The people familiar with the case spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the settlement before it is officially announced. His attorney filed a $20 million claim against the government last year.
A DEA spokesman, Rusty Payne, referred questions Monday to the Justice Department, which handled settlement negotiations. A call to the Justice Department's public affairs office was not returned. Chong, who was attending University of California, San Diego, was at a friend's house in April 2012 when a DEA raid netted 18,000 ecstasy pills, other drugs and weapons. Chong and eight others were taken into custody.
Agents told Chong he would not be charged and had him wait in the 5-by-10-foot cell at DEA offices in San Diego. The door did not reopen for four days, when agents found him severely dehydrated and covered in his own feces.
Chong said he began to hallucinate on the third day. He urinated on a metal bench to drink his urine. He stacked a blanket, his pants and shoes on the bench and tried to reach an overhead fire sprinkler, futilely swatting at it with his cuffed hands to set it off.
Chong said last year that he gave up and accepted death. He bit into his eyeglasses to break them. He said he
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Hardly. He almost died of dehydration, which is one of the most unpleasant ways there is to die, and he will likely continue to have medical problems as a result. Locking a prisoner in a room with no food or water until he died was a technique used by the Nazis at Auschwitz to terrorize the inmates.
Forget the 10 mil, I’ll up it to 15 million.........
Well, there is a difference, those innocent convicted of a crime were convicted by a judge or jury...wrongly...but they had their day in court...the justice system failed them...
This guy was just left to die because of complete incompetence...no judge, no jury, just some jackbooted roided up ass clowns
I could certainly understand that. Thanks for your reply.
It's called Paradoxical Undressing, and it's one of the last stages before death (burrowing comes next, although neither is found in all cases). One line of thinking is that, as the body loses control, the mechanisms that were pulling blood (and heat) from the extremities to the core give up, resulting in a flush of the body's last warmth out to the skin, where it's quickly dissipated.
$4 million is excessive by a lot.
It would be better if the 4 million was funded by performing multiple “pension-ectomies” to the morons that wronged him...
This guy was just left to die because of complete incompetence...no judge, no jury, just some jackbooted roided up ass clowns
If the guy had died how much you wanna bet that they would have just dumped his dead body somewhere....
bump
Fine. As long as someone gets fired.
Who knew liberals malfunctioning brains was a lack of water...
: )
I learned a new word today. Thanks.
“...a bit over-the-top...”
You seriously asked that?
If you were shoved in a cell, forced to drink your own urine, handcuffed, and covered in your own waste, I’d wager you’d be asking for 4 or more for sure.
I know I would. Hell, I’d OWN the f***ers and several next generations of their families as indentured Public servants.
don’t go take a drink of water, then sit in your chair for the next 96 hours and consume nothing while you go insane not knowing if you live. And your survival is essentially up to bureaucrats. Honestly he could have easily died and my life is worth at least 4 million.
Its killing me. What did you do to be stuck for 4 days without water?
Yeah brother...
Settlement money is not taxed...
I’d give him more — and then disband the DEA.
With “the current budget issues” you cite this fascist anti-constitutional agency is a good place to start the savings... right after the ATF of course.
Didn’t know that.
“Okay, so how much do YOU think being left to die of thirst, handcuffed in a pile of your own soil, is worth?”
Really. He went into kidney failure and almost died. Wonder how that affects his kidneys for the future? Not even mentioning the mental agony of not knowing if he was ever going to be found. Only reason he survived is that he was smart enough to drink his own urine.
Ten million wouldn’t be too much in my book.
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