Yeah, I agree with you. In post #14, I said as much.
This was certainly cruel and unusual punishment, IMHO, not to mention reckless and potentially fatal. I'm surprised that this case made it this far and it hasn't been very well publicized. You might think that this guy might have some ground for a civil suit.
I hate to side with the criminal, but in this case I don't see any alternative.
When its a criminal state, its natural for conservatives to side with the police side, until it becomes a police state and this sort of thing gets out of hand. JMO.