Why are you pestering about you wanting to start a rambling conversation that I’m not interested in/
I’m not here to chat about the things you want to talk about, evidently you are interested in the sociology of riots or something and something about medical practice, I’m not.
My interest is in the police and their enduring transport issue.
A mere policy violation?
A policy to stop the injuries of people becoming cripples and dead from having their hands cuffed behind them inside of a slick, empty, metal van by cops, and then the cops keep doing it?
When cops earn a reputation for “nickel rides” and then ignore the fix, then there is a problem.
“At least five other people or their families have alleged they were harmed in the back of a police van since 1997, with several winning judgments or settling with police. Three were paralyzed by the ride, according to a recent review by The Baltimore Sun.
In one case, a 43-year-old plumber arrested for public urination was handcuffed and put in a van in good health but emerged a quadriplegic. He told his doctor he was not buckled into his seat and after a sharp turn he was “violently thrown around the back of the vehicle as [police officers] drove in an aggressive fashion,” according to a lawsuit.
The man died two weeks later of pneumonia caused by his paralysis, and his family initially won a $7.4 million award after a jury agreed three officers were negligent. It was reduced to $219,000 by Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals because state law caps such payouts.”
“It is police policy that all arrestees must be buckled in during transport. The policy, updated just nine days before Freddie Gray was injured, states “all passengers, regardless of age and location, shall be restrained by seat belts or other authorized restraining devices.””
five other people or their families have alleged they were harmed in the back of a police van since 1997
Such a dramatic death/injury toll in just 18 years.
And you apparently believe all the violent rioting, beatings, looting and destruction in Baltimore were over unsafe van rides and safety policy violations. Not police brutality and racist cops.
Since you refuse to answer a couple legitimate questions, I can only assume this is your position and opinion.
You're entitled to your opinion ansell.
Take care.