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TexasTowelie

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Mon Apr 27, 2015, 05:50 AM Apr 2015

Update: Activists push for Harris Co. Sheriff to resign after mentally ill man left alone for weeks

HARRIS COUNTY - Community activist Quanell X joined forces with the parents of inmate Terry Goodwin demanding Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia resign.

"He was treated like an animal," said Mashell Lambert, Goodwin's mother.

Lambert is a mother on a mission. She's taking the fight right to Sheriff Garcia. She blames him for what happened to her son Terry inside a cell at the Harris County Jail.

"He's not garbage," said Lambert. "And they treated him like garbage, so I will not allow it."

Read more: http://www.khou.com/story/news/2015/04/27/activists-push-for-sheriff-garcia-to-resign/26436755/

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Update: Activists push for Harris Co. Sheriff to resign after mentally ill man left alone for weeks (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2015 OP
What they did to this prisoner was truly aweful Gothmog Apr 2015 #1

Gothmog

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1. What they did to this prisoner was truly aweful
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 07:35 PM
Apr 2015

I doubht that Garcia has any direct involvement but he needs to clean houst

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