Posted on 07/31/2023 5:07:40 PM PDT by rod5591
Police officers allegedly stood by and watched for 15 minutes as a man who relapsed on heroin drowned in the Tennessee River after fleeing from them, according to a newly filed lawsuit.
Kimberly Williams-Clabo claims her son, Mika Wheeler Clabo, would still be alive if it weren’t for the alleged negligence of the Knoxville Police Department, which encountered him “acting erratically” on the morning of July 25, 2022.
Police said that when they approached Clabo, 30, who struggled with a heroin addiction, he ran from them and jumped into the river, where he got caught on vines and drowned.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Williams-Clabo said the four officers at the scene “refused to make a single rescue attempt and inexplicably warned off private rescuers, resulting in the victim’s death by drowning.”
She is suing the officers, as well as the police chief, for violating her son’s civil rights and for wrongful death.
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His mother should have taught him not to do drugs, took him to swimming lessons, and drummed into his head, that he should never run from police.
Suicide by cop action? Certainly not the cops’ fault, if you run from them. He wanted to drown. Family gets nothing.
Once you CHOOSE to Resist Arrest EVERYTHING that follows is on YOU. You’ll find Sympathy between “Shit” and “Syphilis” in the Dictionary.
Exactly.
Yes, don’t become an additional victim.
I’d have to see the conditions to comment more, but water is
nothing to mess around with if it is moving quickly.
Advising others not to risk their lives for this guy, was
probably a reasoned move.
Look, I dnn’t want to see the guy die, but he made his choice
and his family should FO.
Jump in to save a little girl or a puppy? Yes. Jump in to save a “relapsed heroin addict” who will likely try to drown me?
News flash to those complaining.
The police are under no obligation to save you.
Ghetto lotto. The city will pay.
Harder fight with the individual cops
“The only time the government has a duty to try to rescue you is if they already have you “in custody” — i.e. you’re imprisoned, or locked up at a mental institution.”
“This legal doctrine states that as an average person you are under no legal obligation to help someone in distress. Even if helping an imperiled person would impose little or no risk to yourself, you do not commit a crime if you choose not to render assistance.”
Police have no constitutional obligation to protect you.
I don’t think most people understand the panic that sets in on a drowning swimmer and what they will do to somebody trying to rescue them.
I can think of several stories where folks died trying to save somebody else.
Why the law suit? Clabo was cured of his addiction.
Thank you.
This happened here last week..
Posted at 1:03 PM, Jul 25, 2023 and last updated 1:06 PM, Jul 25, 2023
CINCINNATI — A staff member dove in to save a guest who was swimming at Coney Island Sunlight Pool and was taken to the hospital on Monday, according to a spokesperson for the park.
The spokesperson said the staff member jumped into the water “in an attempt to rescue a guest” and was pulled underwater. Lifeguards then rescued both the guest and the staff member.
The guest did not need medical attention after the incident, but the staff member was taken to a hospital by the Anderson Township Fire Department, the spokesperson said.
No information has been released about that person’s condition.
I hear that over and over, but most officers wouldn’t be
content not too, if there was a chance to save a person.
This guy wrote his own script for how this was going to play
out.
I wish he hadn’t, but it was his choice.
Folks, don’t choose suicide over a short or even long stint
in the lock up. Even a long sentence can be overcome.
Wonder which one won the pot?
OVER 30# worth-—ALL DEAD WEIGHT
Same thing happened in Tuscon last year I think, not sure the location. Guy drowned in the Salt Fork while cops watched and his wife begged them to help him.
The cops not only made zero effort to save the suspect, but they also warned off private rescuers. So, sort of like the exact opposite of good samaritans. Setting aside the issue of the goodness of the suspect, of course.
There may soon come a time when police start coming for patriots, and running away might be the only way to save one’s life, given the then certainty of corrupt officers, prosecutors, judges, and juries. Consider all the “errors” Kyle Rittenhouse’s prosecutors made, or how easily people get convicted of seditious conspiracy by non-violently walking in the Capitol, after being waved in by police- and having thousands of exculpatory hours of video evidence not released.
Yeh darn those cops for not jumping in a river with a raging drug addict. 🙄
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