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| their REAL crime was being bone-f—-king-lazy |
Yes, they were found guilty of criminal negligence in the jail death of Corey Rogers, who choked to death on his own vomit because he was wearing a waterproof spit hood all night.
Policy was that the hood should have been removed as soon as possible.
And above all , that prisoners-at-risk like Corey must be checked every 15 minutes all through his stay.
Forget all the defence lawyer diversion talk about this complicated spit hood whatever : think, instead, like a parent, grandparent or older sibling.
Think of stone-drunk Corey as if he was a newborn : what university education do you really need to realize, instinctively, that you should check on the baby throughout the night ?
The pair took our taxpayers’ money, damn good money too compared to whatever I earned in my life, but failed to do this vital job.
A young man, a new young father, got publicly drunk, one night. An offence, yes, but a mild one, almost understandable.
Instead he died.
I did Dan & Cheryl’s job, for several years, and at minimum wage too.
In the security unit at a mental hospital.
Hourly checks on the general population.
For people in TQ, people confided to a safe cell because they were judged at immediate risk of harming themselves or others : checks every 15 minutes all through the night.
No one ever died on my watch.
I did so for two reasons : (a) I was required to and (b) I care about others - I didn’t want anyone to needlessly die.
Dan & Cheryl’s excuse was they were far far too busy to do even one (yep !) one single vital life-check in the course of a whole f-king night.
Please don’t think of them as convicted criminals ; not right now anyway ; think of them as potential employees.
Why would any employer in their right minds ever hire such lazy uncaring sods ?
I think the judge gave them the wrong sentence. Sure, sure, no jail time, a few years probation.
But forget, totally, the 200 hours of community ‘service’ : I don’t want those lazy uncaring bastards within a mile of any community.
Instead, make them pay back their wages they got for doing SFA : tell ‘em that in the future, when they start actually doing the job they were hired for, they will get paid again...
I hadn’t read this when I wrote this post : its Corey’s mom’s victim statement and I think it is more eloquent than anything that I just wrote - please read it and judge for yourselves...
About to read some books by David Livingstone smith on the evolutionary roots and science of dehumanization. I'll quote Scott Atran's in "In Gods We Trust" the quote is this: "the flip side to ingroup cooperation is out group hostility" entire tribes of people have and still do look down on 'others' the Naga tribe thought they were the only real humans that other tribes were demons or beasts that made it fairly easy for the Naga head hunters to go about their grisly work of cutting the heads of adults/children off. It explains the accounts of Helena Valero (I could be wrong about the name, usung my memory here) being kidnapped by the yanamamo forced to live with them for years. Seeing the yanamamo smashing babies to death on rocks by swinging them like hammers by the ankle(white brains she said!) or the charming account of a boy who climbed a tree and asked a man (in an attack party, who was pointing a bow at him) "daddy don't shoot me!" The guy drops his aim and laughs appreciating a good joke and I paraphrase "I'm not your father boy" before shooting the kid in the leg who fell out of a tree and ran into the forest. These coppers didnt think of the victim as human, not fully, not like a fellow tribesman/brother who they'd take a bullet for. (We're all like this to some extent, I do look down on those trying to re-establish the ottoman caliphate, those people in the streets in Toronto crying about Salamund Rushdie, burning books in the street YEARS ago, shooting book translators in Denmark with a high powered rifle left to die on the street, Well. If Time travel existed we'd have fizzle bombers everywhere.) We must all try to see each other as fully human and go from there. This spithood thing would never have happened if they had imagined it from the perspective of the man in the spit hood. A total failure of the conscience between the two of us I think debasing a human and torturing a Human like that well I suspect that got them exited, hearts pounding, the not entirely unpleasant sensation of when your hands shake and you can feel your heart beat in your throat with a mix of excitement, fear and rage. At the very least they were as exited as a tyrant of argument awaiting that pristine moment of RETORT if they weren't indeed far far past that and worshipping at the altar of thanatos while simultaneously filled to the breaking point, almost given over to and allowing their bodies to become engorged by and possessed by Eros. They felt as powerful as the guy in saving private Ryan who slowly pressed the knife in. A pornographic and indecent display of power and cruelty I imagine the halo of evil around this whole thing is that these folk probably enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteTheyre pro social so its okay to murder people in a psychosexual way with a bondage hood said the judge. No deterrence necessary, what about rehabilitation?
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