Jail staff ignored toothless man's 'soft diet' request, then he choked on chicken: Lawsuit
lawandcrime.com
A Tennessee man with no teeth choked to death on a piece of chicken that jail staff gave him instead of the "soft diet" he was required to have, a lawsuit says. The jailers allegedly watched him die.
  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    1 day ago

    I am not a lawyer, but…

    This man had severe health conditions. He was confined to a wheelchair as well as being toothless and incarcerated. The jailers have a duty to provide adequate medical care(pdf) for prisoners. That would include providing a medically required diet. Sure sounds like Criminally negligent homicide to me. All those who ignored his distress and let him die should be charged under this offense.

    They should also throw in further charges for deprivation of rights under color of law.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        6·
        1 day ago

        We gotta whole lot of that, but people are in denial, and call it G-d. Aka Mammon.

        • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          Honestly it sure seems like Satan is the good guy actually; god, who just made us as playthings to make us worship him, forbade us from knowledge and once we obtained it called it a burden for us, and he doesn’t really expect anyone to be free from sin (look at what some of the “Christians” have been up to; look at what the “Muslims” have done in his name; you can’t really point at any religion and not see atrocities being done in the name of god) whereas Satan said “fuck that, it’s a shitty way to be” and was banished for this defiance.

          The only Satanists I’ve ever seen who like blood and guts and evil are psychopaths who are still basing their idea of Satan on what god’s churches “teach”, he is “wicked and bad and tempting and he will burn you for all eternity if you turn on god so only be GOOD and do what god says like KILL the others who are different”

          Starting to think this god fella’s actually the toxic and evil one, you know?

          • JennyLaFaeEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            Satan is the good one. The one the Christians worship is named Enlil, the one they call Satan is Enki.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            1·
            1 day ago

            I got nothing against him. When you meet your demons and look them full in the face, and get them to work with, rather than against you (enslavement/subjugation is passé, we’ve grown to sitting with, talking, and understanding, developing a healthy interdependence), they become your holy guardian angels.

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    None of those who watched this man die and did nothing to help him deserve to be just out and about enjoying life.