Two officers indicted in death of man held in Texas jail

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Two officers indicted in death of man held in Texas jail
Reuters
By Lisa Maria Garza
43 minutes ago

DALLAS (Reuters) - A North Texas grand jury indicted two detention officers on Monday in connection with the March death of an inmate at Arlington City Jail, according to prosecutors.

Pedro Medina, 33, and Stephen Schmidt, 57, are charged with negligent criminal homicide over the death of Jonathan Paul, 42, who was found unresponsive in his cell on March 10, a day after his arrest by police. He died three days later, police said.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner ruled Paul's cause of death as "in-custody death with application of physical restraints,” with "acute psychosis” as a significant contributing factor.

Police in Arlington, west of Dallas, said Medina has been placed on paid administrative leave. Schmidt retired last month after 10 years as a jail operator.


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1. "paid administrative leave"

[gwheezie]

2. I use restraints where I work.

We are always aware of the risk of rhabdomyolosis when taking someone down and restraining them especially if we have no medical history.
We take vs minimum every 2 hours, we record intake and output, we do full range of motion on limbs, we check circulation every 15 minutes, a medical professional has to assess the patient within an hour.
Restraining someone is very detrimental and high risk.

[murielm99]

3. A few weeks ago, I spent six hours

in the emergency room. A young man in the room next to me was restrained. He was having mental health problems.

He was followed closely by the medical staff as well. They were waiting to transfer him to a facility that could offer him more help.

I thought he was treated very well by a staff that behaved very professionally.