http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/investigates/photo-shows-pepper-sprayed-prisoner-12142011"I was shocked. This was something out of a horror movie," says Joyce Christie. She said her husband was depressed and was showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving for Florida.
She called authorities and pleaded with them to take her husband to a hospital and be given his medications. Instead, he was taken to jail for disorderly intoxication.
On another forum, a big argument broke out over this issue. A law enforcement personnel insisted that this does not happen, but I and I think the majority insisted that it does--because we've heard the same thing over and over again.
DON'T CALL THE POLICE ON MENTALLY ILL OR DISTRAUGHT PEOPLE. Well, at least not the ones you care about--if you're being attacked by a deranged stranger have at it--though some of those calls have gone badly too (there have been cases where the caller was arrested--or shot).
This is one of the disturbing issues:
He can see no reason for deputies to repeatedly pepper spray Nick Christie since he was already in custody.
Something else that is disturbing is why it keeps happening, or that anything is being done to prevent it from happening.
One of the first cases I heard about was a man who was sent to jail because as a burger flipper he could not keep up with his child support payments. He was restrained in a chair and bludgeoned to death by an enraged guard because he had vomited.
