'Can you help me, please?' Ta'Neasha Chappell begged for medical aid before her jail death For nearly 16 hours, Ta'Neasha Chappell pleaded with the staff of the Jackson County, Indiana, jail for medical care. She repeatedly vomited blood, became dehydrated and asked several times to be taken to the hospital. But as Chappell's pleas grew more anguished, the guards on duty grew more irritated, audio recordings from the jail show. "I don't know what you want me to do unless you're coughing up something crazy," one told Chappell at 1:33 a.m. July 16. It was Chappell's fourth call for help in five hours, according to a series of 18 audio recordings from the jail provided by Chappell family attorney Sam Aguiar. Before 6 p.m., Chappell would be dead. "You can hear the decline," Aguiar said of Chappell's condition as time drug on. "You could have put any rational human being on the other end of that intercom and they would have known that something was incredibly wrong." Chappell, 23, of Louisville, was in the custody of the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown, Indiana, about 50 miles north of Louisville, on charges stemming from an alleged May 26 theft and high-speed chase when she died July 16 at a nearby hospital. In December, Prosecutor Jeffrey Chalfant declined to bring criminal charges against any jail employees for Chappell's death. A 15-page report by the Indiana State Police determined no one was criminally liable for Chappell's death, Chalfant said. Aguiar provided the recordings from the jail in the hours leading up to her death. Most of the clips are Chappell imploring jail staff for help, though some involve other incarcerated women asking for help on her behalf. More coverage:Family alleges 'cruel and unusual' treatment by jail in wrongful death suit Even though Chalfant declined to prosecute, Aguiar hopes the recordings prompt federal officials to take a deeper look at the jail. "The state dropped the ball, but at the same time, the feds also have criminal civil rights violations they can pursue above and beyond state law neglect," he said. "Because these violations were so blatant, we count on the feds in these situations. … There needs to be awareness, but there needs to be a deterrent for these things in the future." Less than a month after Chappell's death, Joshua McLemore, also a prisoner of the Jackson County Jail, also died. He was released to a hospital Aug. 8 and died two days later after being diagnosed with several severe conditions, including low oxygen levels, deteriorating muscle tissue and kidney failure. A previous Courier Journal investigation found the jail had a long history of overcrowding, past accusations of medical negligence and a previous in-custody death in 2020. 'I need help' Starting just after 8:30 p.m. July 15, Chappell told jail staff she had vomited blood. She continued to relay that to staff throughout the night and ask to be taken to the hospital. "I spoke to the sergeant, and he said that the nurse will see you in the morning," one jail employee said at 3:12 a.m. About five hours later, another woman called on Chappell's behalf, saying "she can't get up." Soon after, the recordings captured a male voice asking Chappell if she had ever taken omeprazole, which is used to reduce stomach acid for conditions such as acid reflux and stomach ulcers. But within the hour, Chappell again phoned for help, saying she was vomiting. For more than a minute at 9:55 a.m., a recording captured Chappell repeatedly moaning "I need help." There's no response from jail staff on that clip. Ta'Neasha Chappell case:Investigation launched into 2nd prisoner death tied to Indiana jail Another prisoner tried to get correctional officers to help Chappell at 11:16 a.m. because she couldn't notify them herself. "Well if she needs something, she'll have to hit the button," the female employee replied. Chappell asked for help twice more in the next hour, at times speaking too faintly or incomprehensibly to understand. Staff eventually called EMS to the jail, where they found Chappell "lying prone on a bedroll on a cell floor," at 3:26 p.m. EMS took Chappell to Schneck Medical Center at 3:52 p.m., and she died there less than two hours later. The Indiana State Police report, prosecutor Chalfant noted, "makes no findings and no conclusions about the standard of care provided by employees of the Jackson County Jail." It added that an autopsy found the cause as "probable toxicity" with an unknown substance. Notes from an ER report previously stated there was "concern the patient maybe ingested ethylene glycol or methanol." But the prosecutor's new report said initial forensic lab test results "did not reveal any positive findings of toxicological significance." And though hospital emergency room personnel noted Chappell had symptoms similar to "anti-freeze poisoning," testing done by another crime lab "revealed no anti-freeze in Ms. Chappell’s body," Chalfant found. Chappell's family has filed a federal lawsuit against Jackson County Sheriff Rick Meyer, Jail Commander Chris Everhart and seven other jail employees. The suit remains open and ongoing.
cliffs: Black man accused of public urination Black man refuses to show ID (legal as far as I know) 4x cruisers show up for leg-less man Cops rip off his prosthetic leg & throw it in the trunk (painful according to accused) Cops charge him w/possession of oxy; a felony (not public urination); pills he has script for Cops keep leg
A D.C. police lieutenant in the intelligence branch has been put on leave amid an investigation into alleged improper contacts with a prominent member of the extremist group Proud Boys, according to four law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case. The officials identified the officer as Shane Lamond, a 22-year veteran. Law enforcement officials said there is evidence suggesting communications between Lamond and Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, who described himself as the former chairman of the group. Efforts to reach Lamond on Wednesday evening were not successful. Speaking at a news conference, D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said only that a member of the department had been placed on administrative leave during an “ongoing investigation” being conducted by his department, the FBI and the Department of Justice. Contee declined to answer questions in more detail, saying allegations had not been proved and that he did not want to compromise the investigation. The chief said he is committed to full transparency and accountability. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, would not describe the nature of the alleged contacts between Lamond and Tarrio or how the inquiry began. Contee said he was concerned enough by the allegation to take administrative action. Tarrio, reached by phone, described his contacts with Lamond as professional. He said he provided Lamond or other police officials advance notice when the Proud Boys planned to rally or march in the District. But Tarrio also said that during marches, Lamond would tell him the location of counterdemonstrators. Tarrio said that was so his group could avoid conflict, though after one violent night of demonstrations, police accused the Proud Boys of roaming the city looking for and instigating fights, targeting people they believed identified as antifa, or antifascists. “He was just a liaison officer for when we held rallies,” Tarrio said of Lamond. He denied their relationship extended beyond that and said he is not a confidential informant for anyone on the D.C. police force. “They’re just trying to get anybody at this point,” Tarrio said of investigators. “I only told him, ‘We’re coming into town and we’re going to hold this protest.’ That’s as far as the relationship went.” Activists have long complained that D.C. police enjoyed a cozy relationship with the Proud Boys, pointing to fist-bumps seen between members, officers posing for photos with Proud Boys and some police turning away as members destroyed Black Lives Matters signs. Police have denied those accusations, saying any sign of cooperation was merely officers doing their best to keep warring sides apart. Tarrio was not at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, but his group has become a key focus of the FBI’s investigation into it. Tarrio was arrested two days before the attack on the Capitol on charges he burned a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a church during a previous protest in the District. He was released last month after serving five months in jail. The court had ordered him to stay out of the city as his case was pending. FBI probes possible connections between extremist groups at heart of Capitol violence Dozens of people linked to the Proud Boys have been arrested in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack. Tarrio’s conduct is also under review as part of the insurrection probe, law enforcement officials have said. Any suggestion that law enforcement acted inappropriately in handling sources tied to the Jan. 6 attack probably would be seized upon by Republicans in Congress and elsewhere, who have repeatedly suggested that the FBI, either through undercover agents, informants or both, egged on violence. At a hearing last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) lambasted federal officials for not answering questions about informants, and pressed the head of the FBI’s national security branch, Jill Sanborn, to say whether the federal government “deliberately encouraged illegal violent conduct on January 6th.” She answered, “Not to my knowledge, sir.” While nothing currently known about the Lamond case suggests recent interactions between Tarrio and the FBI, court records show that years ago he was a prolific cooperator with federal and local law enforcement in South Florida — cooperation that grew out of a 2012 fraud case in which he pleaded guilty to helping sell stolen goods. Tarrio has complained about being publicly identified as a government informant, posting an online screed last year criticizing government and the media for disclosing his past activities and arguing that his cooperation was done with the full knowledge and participation of his co-defendants, writing: “They have proven that if you cooperate with the US government they will hang you out to dry... So my question is... is it worth it? That I leave up to y’all to decide.” At a 2014 hearing in the fraud case, a prosecutor described Tarrio as “probably the most cooperative from day one. From day one, he was the one who wanted to talk to law enforcement, wanted to clear his name, wanted to straighten this out so that he could move on with his life.” The prosecutor told the court that Tarrio’s cooperation helped federal agents prosecute 13 others and aided local police with a number of undercover drug investigations. Jeffrey Feiler, Tarrio’s defense attorney at the time, said Tarrio’s broad cooperation allowed law enforcement to successfully raid multiple marijuana grow houses and seize 100 pounds of the drug. He said Tarrio also “worked in an undercover capacity in a case involving information pertaining to an illegal immigrant smuggling ring and, again at his own risk, in an undercover role met and negotiated to pay $11,000 to members of that ring to bring in fictitious family members of his from another country.”
Extreme liberals Democrats including our ET trolls are wrong on all the relevant issues affecting most Americans. Hopefully, we can remove as many extreme liberal Democrats from office on November 8, 2022. You have a lot of pissed off Americans voting in the midterm elections of 2022. This article is from extreme liberal newspaper, SF Gate. https://www.sfgate.com/national-pol...(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
Seesm driving while black is still a crime and gets you tased...hope this cop is fired and publicly ridiculed. Maybe that will wake hte cops up and demand the shit in their ranks are flushed so they can repair their image.. " In the footage filmed by Gordon, he asked why he was being pulled over with his ID visible in his hand. The officer ignored his question and repeatedly yelled at Gordon and told him to get out of the vehicle. "I feel uncomfortable, please get your supervisor," Gordon told the officer, to which he replied, "I don't give a sh*t."" Then the officer grabbed Gordon and when Gordon asked why he was being dragged from his car the fucking pig tazed him and then he was arrested for resisting arrest.... what kind of gestapo bullshit is this... https://www.comicsands.com/tennesse...02vgcf752BXcYg4rdpwBaYo0elSm2vVyDMS4vN5gsGGe0