Posted on 03/14/2005 2:58:53 AM PST by JohnHuang2
I, and other conservative people who live in the REAL world, and not some liberal La-La Land, connected the dots early on, in previous posts following the savage's violent attacks, murders, and escape.
If you are speaking of ANYONE in the mainstream media (Worldnetdaily.com doesn't qualify) connecting those same dots, it ain't gonna happen. They KNOW what the truth is, but they don't want it to get out, 'cause that would mean real, substantive, negative (for them) changes for the people they so admire - (BARF ALERT) the poor, downtrodden, misunderstood minority "suspects" in our unjust prison system, who just need one more chance.
Call me a liberal, I have come to the conclusion that because he wasn't handcuffed it caused 4 peoples death. Case closed.
Yup. So why wan't he handcuffed?
There are enough facts in in order to exercise sound judgment. Facts: He was released from his handcuffs in order to get dressed when a single armed woman was not enough to prevent him from overpowering her and taking her weapon. That is the fact.
Your insistence on suspending judgment indicates that you have some other motive than exercising sound opinion of a citizen. The tyrrany of expertism makes citizens believe that they shhould not have opinions on ordinary things that are not as complex as claimed. You are wittingly or unwittingly feeding that tyrrany.
No sacasm can be so broad that somebody at FR will not take you seriously...
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The guy was caught with two homemade knives the day before...it is truly pc politics. Also, Fulton County police dept is very badly run.
I think you mis-read this.
Lack of handcuffs was the the major contributing factor to this crime. 4 people are dead from PC.
There is no need for an investigation to come to this conclusion.
If a juror saw the defendant in hand cuffs it would have been a mistrial.
Some freepers suspected she was not shot and wondered if she was in on his escape.
My suspicion is that his attorney suggested he use that story about the juror seeing him in handcuffs as a way to push for another mistrial.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
That is the problem ! Moronic PC liberalism just killed 4 innocent people. If your lawyer can't overcome the jury seeing you in handcuffs when you are brought into the courtroom on a good defense presentation, you either have a terrible lawyer or are probably guilty. I don't buy that study not one bit, if anything people might feel sorry for you more if they think you are innocent.
I worked for Dept of Corrections here in Northern Louisiana from 1992-1997.
For most of that time, I was a transport officer. We took inmates to court on a very frequent basis. It was standard practice to remove cuffs prior to taking an inmate into the courtroom.
This was in a very rural parish (county) and there was always 2 officers that carried inmates to court. Of course, everyon in the courtroom knew, just by seeing 2 armed uniformed officers there, the guy standing there was an already sentenced to state prison time and was back for a 2nd helping.
There are some other ways for helping restrain the inmate. One is to make the inmate wear a leg brace on 1 leg under his jeans. This will prevent him from running, but just like Chester on Gunsmoke, he can still move pretty fast with the right incentive.
Sun technologies make a "stun belt". This device is placed on the inmate and has a 50K volt power pak that fits over his right kidney. It is activated by remote control and gives him an 8 second ride of his life. But you have to check his medical record and have the Dr. authorize that this device be placed on him.
One thing that never made sense to me (among many others) all inmates in the state of Louisiana have their name and doc # stenciled on both legs of their jeans and on the back of their shirt. We would have to take his cuffs off, but everyone could easily see that he was already in prison.
Thanks cajun - yours is best post on this thread - much appreciate your input.
In your professional opininion, if these standards had been followed in Atlanta, could this monster had broken free?
The same could also be said if everyone had a gun; none of this would have happened.
Handcuffs are not the reason Nichols was able to wreak such havoc. It was because he was guarded by a woman bailiff. Period.
People on trial should be handcuffed. And legcuffed, if called for. I like the cage approach that so many countries use in their court system...you know, where the defendant/s sit in a big cage during the trial.
yes, it is quite possible that he could have. You have to look on Corrections Officers in much the same light as most of today's police officers.
Many are on the lower IQ plane and either get so complacent with such a repetitious and boring job that in many instances, they should just give the inmate a vehicle and send him to court on his own, or they are so gung ho, they make stupid mistakes with their know it all attitude that they get someone hurt or killed.
Also, the American with Disabilities Act is a big detriment in an awful lot of assigned duties. They will put a 60 year old woman with enphezema doing a job that should be assigned to a 20-30 year old man.
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