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Mme. Defarge

(7,982 posts)
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 03:28 PM Jul 2020

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Downtown jail inmates hitting panic buttons due to tear gas wafting into cells, lawyers say

Inmates at Portland’s downtown jail have complained this week about tear gas seeping into their cells, making it difficult to breathe and causing their eyes to burn.

Women housed on the eighth floor of the Multnomah County Justice Center reported waking up in the early morning hours Tuesday and Wednesday and hitting panic buttons in their cells because they were choking on the gas, according to Oregon Federal Public Defender Lisa Hay.

One woman was so worried that she tried to breathe through the crack under the cell’s door, Hay said.

Sheriff’s deputies at the jail eventually opened up food ports in cells to provide more air, according to defense lawyers.

Read More... https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/downtown-jail-inmates-hitting-panic-buttons-due-to-tear-gas-wafting-into-cells-lawyers-say.html
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greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
1. The amount of tear and CS gas used by police and these dubious feds and mercenaries is criminal
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 03:30 PM
Jul 2020

It's sadistic.

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. I can't even imagine the fear, terror and panic
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 03:35 PM
Jul 2020

the trapped people would experience under those conditions. All the while, those prisoners know that their guards couldn't care less if they lived or died, let alone do anything to stop the toxic air they were fired in breath.

I'd go mad in such circumstances, I couldn't handle it at all.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
7. I really can't get my head around this...
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 05:15 PM
Jul 2020

that has got to be a lot of teargas...like it was done on purpose? And, if they have no outside air, and they're just recirculating the inside air, during the time of COVID....???

Reports of ventilation in the jail being shut down also concerns the federal public defender at a time when the spread of the coronavirus remains a danger to inmates. “Good ventilation is critical for keeping the virus at bay,‘' Hay said.
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“During the protests, the inmates have had little sleep due to the loud explosions outside,” Maxfield said. ”Whatever federal law enforcement was doing on the street was so strong that the gas made its way into the Justice Center ventilation system and gassed women as high as the eighth floor. No jail staff was on the floor to help because of the late hour.”

- ”My client reports that after inmates on the 8th floor woke up choking on tear gas at 1:00 am on Monday, jail staff told them they were shutting down outside ventilation and recirculating air.”

Mersky

(4,969 posts)
12. Is awful and untenable. The fed goons are lobbing stronger stuff than the PPB.
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 08:03 PM
Jul 2020

Is what I’ve gathered watching hours of protest livestreams.

The justice center is just across the street from the IRS building. How sound can the feds’ mission be if they didn’t figure this sort of fallout into their choices of noxious substances and methods? What, they can’t relate the threat to the sheriff’s department? Can’t dial them up and say, hey, might want to prepare for excessive gassing of citizens tonight? I mean, they’re all in the same country after all.

And at the jail - no staff was around at 1am to monitor the situation? Seriously, wtf?

I can’t even get started with recirculation of the air in the jail during COVID times without losing it. How seriously f’cked it is that tRump brought this unwelcomed fight to Portland during a pandemic.

keithbvadu2

(36,363 posts)
13. Just lie and say it was not tear gas. Like his fake Bible photo op at a church near the WH.
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 10:29 PM
Jul 2020

Just lie and say it was not tear gas. Like his fake Bible photo op at a church near the WH.

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