Sheriff's murder inmate by depriving him of water

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http://yournewswire.com/milwaukee-count ... for-water/

Some a**hole in another thread insinuated that I'm not really American, but maybe he's on to something. If America is about sheriff's getting back at a man with severe mental illness by cutting off his water supply, and then burying the name of the culprit in the paperwork to make criminal prosecution all but impossible, then I don't want anything to do with it.

A photograph of the deceased, Terrill Thomas:



http://heavy.com/news/2016/09/terrill-t ... -reaction/

Wow, not even Judge Dredd, the comic book hero who lives in a distant future where individual cops are judge, jury, and executioner, kills criminals for sadistic pleasure, as US cops seem to do. When a criminal is killed by Dredd, most of the time it's for "resisting arrest", which is something that the Judges of Mega City One are allowed to do because it's viewed as being self-defense. The Judges rarely sentence criminals to death. \

American cops seem to enjoy torturing people to death for the flimsiest of reasons. I've read that DA's are reluctant to pursue criminal charges against cops for fear that the cops will undermine their prosecutions as revenge, and/or target prosecutors for harassment or worse. It seems that cops in the US are above the law.

Back in 2011, I read a short story that imagined that police departments evolved into "clans" that toppled the elected government and ruled as warlords. Then the military broke apart into clans as well. The clans controlled the food supply, forcing the populace to lick their boots for a bite to eat. Transportation became impossible what with the numerous checkpoints and barricades erected on the roads. Washington DC was nuked by vengeful former vassals of the deposed US govt. It was sort of like today's Syria, without all the bombing. The story was set in the year 2017.

America is inexorably turning into something I hope I manage to die before experiencing.

Some as*hole in another thread insinuated that I'm not really American, but maybe he's on to something. If America is about sheriff's getting back at a man with severe mental illness by cutting off his water supply, and then burying the name of the culprit in the paperwork to make criminal prosecution all but impossible, then I don't want anything to do with it.

You mean to say someone in another thread called you an as*hole just because they didn't agree with your personal opinion...how terrible. Perhaps report that language and attitude to a moderator? That kind of action should not be tolerated...wouldn't you agree?

But! It probably has nothing to do with deputies in Milwaukee...or anything like that. It has to do with someone's ongoing terrible attitude about anything they don't agree with.

I expect such a someone might say something like: "Oh no! It wasn't YOU I was calling an 'as*hole', it was someone else entirely." After all, why would a friendly discussion about the merits of the metric system cause someone to refer to another participant as an "a*hole", just because they didn't agree with them?

I'm sure that in someone's mind they can equate disagreeing with someone over the benefits of the metric system with police brutality but I just don't get it. Just too sensitive maybe?

Dude. You're like completely off-base here.

^^Well, you wanted a thread; you got one, lol

Knave. I have several! (/sarc)

Dude??? Makes me feel young.

Well thanks for clearing that up; it's so nice to be wrong when you want to be....don't you agree???

So everything is/was coincidental???? Good; I'm glad. Have a nice day.

P.S. When I lived in Chicago (40 years) I always imagined the Milwaukee police would be a kinder and gentler image of the Chicago police (who even then, you didn't mess with). But a few trips to that town told me they were identical twins, or something along that line.

P.P.S. Brutality???? They sell it in grocery stores now, or soon will.

Don't worry about it, just arm your self to protect your self from the government and the police, its your constitutional right (for now).

Disgusting. I don't know where they find all these sociopaths to staff that jail.

there is something about American culture that seems to produce more than our share of sociopaths.

I don't know if others here have had much personal contact with police officers, but the ones I've know have been total, no-doubt-about-it, died-in-the-wool alcoholics. I don't know how prevalent this might be but, in many locations I think it comes with the "territory" because of stress caused by the job, constantly changing shifts, etc.; this is what we force upon new recruits.

Let me direct you to the following:

"Alcoholic men demonstrate a deficit in empathy and distorted view of irony." https://sciencedaily/releases/2012/11121108181911.htm I'm not good with computers and this link might not work.

There is much information on this subject online (should be quite well known by now) and it all points to the destructive effects of excessive alcohol on the alcoholic. I personally believe these studies to be true.

My guess is nothing will change until public safety management takes the above into account and does something about it. (But I believe it will just be denied.)

So to answer your unspoken question: I don't know where they find all these sociopaths to staff that jail. I'd say the answer is: "We grow our own."

I think this will work...sorry about that.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 181911.htm

As a little boy, I believed prisoners weren't given food or water, so, unless their sentence was short enough, they'd die behind bars, and this was fully expected as an integral part of the punishment.

I think that's what's meant by: "Cruel and unusual punishment" or pretty close to it.

I hope that doesn't mean withholding food was a punishment inflicted on you as a child. You do hear about extreme cases of kids being abused from time to time.