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Two female mental health patients drown after rapidly rising floods caused by Florence engulfed a sheriff's van while they were shackled in the back
Van was carrying two detainees to different facility in Darlington, South Carolina
It was near the Little Pee Dee River, one of the bodies of water being watched
Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson confirmed the victims were female
Two deputies were rescued but the detainees died in the tragedy on Tuesday
Two female mental health patients drowned in rising floodwaters while chained up in the back of a sheriff's van.
The van was carrying the detainees to a different facility in Darlington, South Carolina when it was overtaken by flood waters on Tuesday.
Two deputies were rescued but the detainees died.
The tragedy happened near the Little Pee Dee River, one of the bodies of water that state officials are watching following the heavy rains of storm Florence.
Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson confirmed the victims were female. Their names have not been released.
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SICKENING!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6183429/2-detainees-drown-van-swept-S-Carolina-flood-waters.html
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Figures.
mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)Who writes that mental health patients were detainees?
spanone
(135,873 posts)why the fuck were these women 'shackled'????
RobinA
(9,894 posts)being driven by the sheriff's office they probably had charges against them and were originally incarcerated. I work in a forensic mental health facility and people are transported in shackles. I'm not commenting on the rightness of that, I'm just saying that's how it works.
It would have nothing to do with anyone's race. It would be a state policy.
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