Texas sheriff refuses to turn over jailhouse video after 32-year-old gay man dies of ‘natural causes

[DonViejo]

The family of a 32-year-old gay man who died in a Texas jail want more answers as to why he was denied his medication that led to the seizures that killed him, reports KTRK.

With Texas lawmakers looking into jailhouse reform in the wake of the recent death of Sandra Bland in Houston, the parents of Jesse Jacobs have come forward to discuss their son’s death after he turned himself into a Galveston jail to serve a DUI sentence, only to die within a week.

The parents of Jacobs, who died in March, want an investigation into what happened in the jail, however the sheriff — on the advice of the Galveston County Attorney– is refusing to turn over video fearing a lawsuit.

Jacobs voluntarily entered jail to serve his 30 days, with the hope that he would only have to stay for 12 days with time off for good behavior. However after being processed, jailhouse medical personnel denied him the prescribed Xanax he had been taking for ten years to treat a severe anxiety disorder. A week after being denied the drug Jacobs began experiencing seizures, a known side-effect of Xanax withdrawal.

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[Rex]

1. Reform should not have to come after somebody dies from cruelty.

It has to come before that, so it prevents cruelty from happening in the first place. What we see here is a systematic breakdown of honoring the law by law enforcement. So will this too take an independant autospy for authorities to start some kind of overall reform?

What does it take?

[libdem4life]

2. Cretins. Galveston, I think we have a problem.

[pnwmom]

3. This wasn't natural causes. This was murder. n/t

[randome]

4. Bastards. Cowards.

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[DFW]

5. Natural causes my ass.

The sheriff responsible needs to go to in trial for murder one. They knew he needed the medication. They denied it to him knowing that. That's premeditation. Their only defense is that they didn't know it would have fatal consequences, and the best they can hope for is Manslaughter. But cruel animals like this are not "law enforcement." They are "law breakers," and deserve the same treatment as any other citizen who willfully causes the death of another.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Did this really happen in Galveston County?

"the recent death of Sandra Bland in Houston" Not!!! she died in Hempstead, TX Waller County-Not even a suburb of Houston. In Connecticut Hemptstead would be near Massachusetts if Stamford was Houston.

[catrose]

7. no No NOOOOOOOOOO

<incoherent screaming>

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. kick for truth

[Marrah_G]

9. WTF?

[AngryAmish]

10. Well, it is perfectly natural to kill gay men.

Please.