Posted on 03/14/2005 8:48:17 AM PST by YoungBlackRepublican
A video camera, which is supposed to be monitored by two guards in a command post, shows the two arriving in the holding area between two courtrooms, according to a law enforcement official who viewed the tape.
The video shows Hall guiding Nichols, whose hands are still handcuffed behind his back, face-first into one of two open cells.
Hall releases one cuff and turns Nichols around to unhook the remaining cuff, which is dangling from his wrist. She uncuffs him so he can change from a jail jumpsuit into street clothes.
The muscular, 33-year-old Nichols then lunges at Hall, knocking the petite, 51-year-old woman backward into another cell. Both disappear from camera view because having a camera inside the actual holding cells is prohibited for privacy reasons. Two to three minutes later, Nichols emerges from the cell, holding Hall's gun belt and police radio. He picks up her keys from the floor and locks her inside the cell. Nichols then enters the empty cell.
A couple of minutes later, he emerges dressed in civilian clothes. He locks the door behind him and saunters calmly out of the holding area, carrying the gun belt, according to the law enforcement official who viewed the tape. Nichols appears to know which key to use to unlock the holding area door and enters a vacant courtroom on the eighth floor.
That video is supposed to be monitored by two people at all times.
If those people had been doing their jobs (they were AWOL as far as I can tell), no one would have died.
OMG, you are so right. Where were the people who were SUPPOSE to be monitoring the video!!!!!!!!!!
UNBELIEVABLE.
Privacy in a jail cell?
Sorry but if my dollars are being spent holding an accused criminal in jail, they get no privacy.
It's astounding. The leadership level of the policemen need to be fired. Immediately.
Bernie Kerik needs to be hired; he'd make so many changes their heads would spin.
Most all Americans are sharing your disbelief.
We can but hope that police agencies throughout this land are seriously looking at the problem, and not getting the "more taxes will fix this" syndrome.
Stop being so close-minded. You know the prisoner's comfort is what matters most.
:) Denote sarcasm.
What a cluster****!!
accused is the keyword here. If Convicted was the word used, I agree... Some day I may be accused of something wrongly and would take much offense to your mindset...
So then the "accused" should not undergo body cavity checks in your world?
Ouch.
Check the powdered sugar trail to the Dunkin' Donuts... the officers that didn't do their jobs probably need an administrative review and a letter in their folders.... and then a pay raise, Christmas bonus and retirement benefits.... it's a union thing... ya'll wouldn't understand.
What does black have to do with it? You think white suspects in Atlanta are treated differently?
< OMG, you are so right. Where were the people who were SUPPOSE to be monitoring the video!!!!!!!!!! >
I was working in our office (big complex) late one Saturday evening. I stepped into the elevator and it stopped between floors. No problem...there's a phone in the elevator that all you have to do is pickup and it rings at the guard shack, which is supposed to be manned at all times for just such emergencies. I got no answer. It's a long story as to how I got out 1 hour and 45 minutes later, but 2 people were fired on the following Monday. I also had to appear before the safety committee and give testimony as to what happened.
It's pretty amazing how lax people get about manning emergency positions.
Yes. And PC is more concerned with the appearance of justice than actual justice.
"Sorry but if my dollars are being spent holding an accused criminal in jail, they get no privacy."
preach it....if you do the crime don't cry about your privacy rights....
In the past, many police agencies had minimum height standards. The idea was that big cops could handle bad guys, or prevent having to handle them in the first place by being big and intimidating. Of course, that excluded too many women. Besides, cops have guns, so that's an "equalizer", right? So, out the window with that discriminatory, outdated thinking.
The result? You get a "petite, 51-year-old woman" overpowered by a big, strong bad guy and killed by her own gun, with the bad guy using the same gun to kill several others. All sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. Thank goodness the news media are all over this angle, since it affects public safety...aren't they?
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