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Judi Lynn

(160,631 posts) Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:20 PM Mar 2018

Jailhouse video shows deputies watching as inmate dies

Source: Associated Press

Updated 8:08 pm, Friday, March 16, 2018

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Jailhouse video reveals California sheriff's deputies watching and sometimes laughing as a schizophrenic man who had been strapped naked to a chair for 46 hours writhes on the floor of his cell, loses consciousness and eventually dies.

The Tribune of San Luis Obispo on Friday posted a nearly eight-minute video of Andrew Holland's death on Jan. 22, 2017. The newspaper said it reviewed more than 100 hours of jailhouse surveillance video in all.

San Luis Obispo County Administrative Officer Wade Horton called the footage "extremely painful to watch."

"What happened to Andrew Holland was a tragedy that impacts our entire community," Horton told The Tribune in an email. "Although we can't bring Andrew back, our county has made and continues to make changes in response to this terrible event."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Jailhouse-video-shows-deputies-laughing-as-12760085.php

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Jailhouse video shows deputies watching as inmate dies (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2018 OP

What about punishment to the so called, "jail guards"? Stuart G Mar 2018 #1

Suspended, with pay, probably ... then some sort of anti-murder 'course' ... then back to work? mr_lebowski Mar 2018 #3

Sometimes I think the whole world is mad. Solly Mack Mar 2018 #2

Torture & murder. Holland will not have been the ONLY one to suffer. Many victims for sure. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2018 #4

Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do. (n/t) Iggo Mar 2018 #5

"changes in response to this terrible event???" DFW Mar 2018 #6

This is what happens when jails are used instead of proper mental institutions ansible Mar 2018 #7

Kick (nt) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #8

Stuart G

(38,449 posts)

1. What about punishment to the so called, "jail guards"?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:37 PM

Mar 2018

I read the article...and the family received 5 million dollars as compensation. Evidently there has been no action taken against the guards who watched and did nothing..

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

3. Suspended, with pay, probably ... then some sort of anti-murder 'course' ... then back to work?

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:53 PM

Mar 2018

This is a very unfortunate stain on one of mah favorite parts of the world ... where I spent CONSIDERABLE time in my early days ... matriculating and such ...

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)

2. Sometimes I think the whole world is mad.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:40 PM

Mar 2018

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,045 posts)

4. Torture & murder. Holland will not have been the ONLY one to suffer. Many victims for sure.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:57 PM

Mar 2018

People don't act with such impunity unless they've done so many times before.

Iggo

(47,571 posts)

5. Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do. (n/t)

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2018, 02:30 AM

Mar 2018

DFW

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6. "changes in response to this terrible event???"

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2018, 05:16 AM

Mar 2018

The first change I would be making is firing the deputies with a perverted sense of entertainment.
The second change would be charging them with homicide and no bail. I hear there is a free cell in their jail since last January.

ansible

(1,718 posts)

7. This is what happens when jails are used instead of proper mental institutions

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2018, 08:00 AM

Mar 2018

There's just so many mentally unstable people out there now that end up in jail with nowhere else to go. Mix that with asshole cops and guards and people die.

muriel_volestrangler

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8. Kick (nt)

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Sun Mar 18, 2018, 04:39 PM

Mar 2018

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