The Department of Justice found themselves another jail to probe following the gruesome death of a Black inmate. The victim’s family says his body was found riddled with rat bites in his solitary confinement cell.
How in the hell are there no criminal charges in this case? He died of dehydration in a jail that also denied him access to medical care. The coroner ruled it a homicide. People need to be charged in this death.
Why are we jailing someone for traffic offenses in the first place? Unless this was something like vehicular homicide or DUI, he shouldn’t have been incarcerated at all.
Couldn’t post bail
she attempted to bail her son out and had the money to do it but was told her there was a hold on her son’s release
Not for lack of trying.
That said,
Butler had been in custody since Jan. 31 and was facing traffic charges that included reckless driving, failure to stop for a blue light and driving with a suspended license.
Yeah I’m not surprised that they’d arrest him. He’d already had his license suspended for something, and continued to drive, apparently in a reckless manner. Apparently this guy was dangerous on the road, and didn’t respect the non-arrest consequence, so jail it is. Still, that doesn’t mean he deserves a shitty jail cell, let alone solitary confinement or death, especially not a torturous death by dehydration and rat bites.
Wtf is a blue light??
Police car.
Ah
