Texas jail death caused in part by officers restraining man, authorities say

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Texas jail death caused in part by officers restraining man, authorities say

Sheriff’s deputy placed knee on Joseph Hutcheson’s back and throat

Hutcheson suffered from heart condition and had taken illegal drugs

Ciara McCarthy in New York
@mccarthy_ciara
Monday 31 August 2015 12.49 EDT

The death of a man at a jail in Texas earlier this month was caused in part by sheriff’s deputies restraining him and one placing his knee on the man’s back and throat, authorities in Dallas said on Monday.

Joseph Hutcheson, who suffered from a heart condition and had consumed illegal drugs, died on 1 August of a homicide, according to the Dallas County medical examiner’s office.

It attributed his death in the lobby of the county jail to the “combined toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine compounded by hypertensive cardiovascular disease associated with struggle and restraint”. The office declined to elaborate on its findings.

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office declined to comment on the medical examiner’s initial findings Monday morning. Sheriff Lupe Valdez expects the internal investigation into the incident to be completed within the next two weeks, according to the spokesperson.



Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/31/texas-jail-death-joseph-hutcheson

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. MURDER

again

[secondwind]

2. I'm sure they will wriggle out of this n/t

[Leontius]

3. And the lesson learned is, if you have heart disease don't do meth, coacaine and fight with police.

[tblue37]

4. Who doesn't know how potentially deadly it is to kneel on someone's

neck or throat? Yet we see cops doing it all the time.

Remember that 14-year-old girl that Eric Casebolt manhandled in Texas? At one point he actually kneels on her neck, and for quite a long time he kneels on her thin, fragile back!

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It is almost certain that much of the damage done to Freddie Gray's neck was caused by some cop kneeling on his neck.

Furthermore, most of these cops are either bulked up from weight training and taking steroids or else seriously overweight from junk food and lack of exercise, so the damage they can do is even worse than it might be if they weighed less.