Posted on 09/28/2006 5:36:01 PM PDT by DonBeto
Columbia Police Chief Barry Crotzer talked about the death of a 30-year-old mentally-deficient man for the first time in six days on Wednesday with some details of the events leading to the mans arrest and death in police custody.
Ashley George Benny, 30, affectionately known by his friends as John, died after police arrested him
(Excerpt) Read more at columbiadailyherald.com ...
Hmmm.
You'll hear all the typical police rhetoric on this thread now. "He shouldn't have resisted arrest".... "he threatened the cops with a weapon"....."He probably choked himself to death", whatever. What's up with the South anwyay, I thought they progressed from that stereotypical 'good old boy' lunacy? The police in Florida are just as bad in arresting little girls, first graders, and tough ol' six year olds. In New Orleans they ran away from their jobs by the hundreds in the face of Katrina. I hope I never have any business in that part of the U.S.
If you think Police Abuse is limited to the South you don't read much news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1710330/posts
Yes they probably shot him with a stun gun. The first reports of the police chief was that he suffered "cardiac arrest". Funny the guy lived 30 years with no heart problems - until he was subdued by the Columbia TN police - and now he is dead.
I don't think it is so much a "south" problem as just a "criminal" or "negligence" (or "criminal negligence") problem. Columbia TN had the infamous jail fire in 1977 which killed 42 people.
This is undoubtedly why the cops are engaged in killing law abiding innocent people ~ they done run out of criminals!
I know very well that police abuse isn't limited to the South, it's just that in the South it's a way of life.
This is my hometown. My people. And my police department. Please document your claims that “Going back decades many deaths have been reported in police custody...”
Going back how many decades? To the 60s? Seventies? Thirties?
Who has died in Columbia, TN police custody and when? How did these people die?
And where are the reports?
Please provide some links and evidence to back up this slanderous claim.
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