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Downtown jail inmates hitting panic buttons due to tear gas wafting into cells, lawyers say
Inmates at Portlands 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 cells door, Hay said.
Sheriffs 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
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)It's sadistic.
Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)Now the whole nation gets to huff his farts...
Nevilledog
(50,679 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)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.
LizBeth
(9,946 posts)Mme. Defarge
(7,982 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)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....???
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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.
triron
(21,915 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Or will this atrocity be ignored as well?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Mersky
(4,969 posts)Is what Ive 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 didnt figure this sort of fallout into their choices of noxious substances and methods? What, they cant relate the threat to the sheriffs department? Cant dial them up and say, hey, might want to prepare for excessive gassing of citizens tonight? I mean, theyre all in the same country after all.
And at the jail - no staff was around at 1am to monitor the situation? Seriously, wtf?
I cant even get started with recirculation of the air in the jail during COVID times without losing it. How seriously fcked it is that tRump brought this unwelcomed fight to Portland during a pandemic.
keithbvadu2
(36,363 posts)Just lie and say it was not tear gas. Like his fake Bible photo op at a church near the WH.