Posted on 05/03/2012 5:06:17 AM PDT by Shane
This was no accident.
He pissed some cop off somewhere down the line.
President Bush signed this act as well.
I'll see your $1000 and raise you $5 million. The guy goes and smokes some pot at a party and the government comes in, locks him up in a hole, and forgets about him? This isn't the way I want my government to operate.
Maybe you don't think its a big deal because he was at a bust. But, in other countries, police abuse has had a way of escalating. How'd you like something like that to happen to you over something other than drugs... maybe a weapons charge (wrong size magazine in a restrictive state)... maybe a minor fight?
Medical costs will be more than $1000.
What is the review that is needed?
Fire the jack-holes that put him in there an then walked away immediately. They then should be brought up on charges of attempted murder. If ever there was an example of “cruel and unusual punishment” this is it.
And the DEA better warm up the checkbook.
Well, you need to punish the DEA somehow.
A lesson needs to be given somehow about this behavior.
I don’t know if the kid deserves $20M, but I know I want the DEA to be sent a message.
$1,000 is way too low for the student, though.
Four days with no water and no food is worth a Hell of a lot more than $1,000. He really could have died because of this treatment.
Lawsuit or no lawsuit, this will become more commonplace.
Why I don't feel outraged?
20 million is a drop in the bucket for DEA’s budget, and considering how much they seize in drug money and other assets, it really is nothing.
Here’s a good message for the DEA. You’re fired, all of you. Top to bottom.
I agree I hate the whole concept of police being exempt from being sued. Why should the government pay a day because some idiot dropped the ball. The idiot that forgot him should pay!
Obviously an oversite screw up, the kind of thing that leads you a child running into a bathroom and drowning in a tub or toilet.
And the government must pay, dearly, for this guy’s suffering and change its procedures such that this can never happen again - much like “miranda”.
Otherwise, if it only cost a couple million dollars, wouldn’t YOU potentially throw an evil man, say a suspected Guantanimo terroist or your loser brother-in-law adulterer in a cell and not return until he “accidentally” died 5 days later? This should not ever happen again.
“Whoops, you’re dead.”
“Accidentally” leaving folks locked up in trucks or containers etc is a good way to kill more at a time.
Every official involved should be tried and imprisoned. This is a typical story of government bureaucracy that came out of the Soviet Union. Government workers in general are congenitally inept and lazy and are only interested in cashing their checks until filing for their fat retirement.
I wish I could be on this young man’s jury.
Oh please. He’s just an engineering student that smoked some pot. All the most talented ones did when I was in school.
Everyone responsible should be locked in a cell just like him.
Who leaves meth lying around a cell? Who ingests supposedly unknown white powdery substances? Neither he nor DEA are accidental tourists in this.
Not cool. Don’t enable police states.
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