TYT: ANOTHER Woman Dies In Police Custody

[blackspade]

Another sensless death at the hands of the cops.

RIP Ralkina Jones

[passiveporcupine]

1. Each life is like a brick in a wall that is being built higher and higher

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

[potone]

3. I can't even bring myself to watch it.

When will this end? Is it my imagination that these events are becoming more frequent? Or are we just finding out about them because of social media and smart phones? At any rate, this is a national crisis of human rights and civil liberties that we need to address.

[Enthusiast]

13. The President and the DOJ must step in. This is way beyond the crisis level.

[GoneFishin]

4. Speechless.

[zebonaut]

5. This didn't begin when smartphone cams arrived....

its been going on for Decades

[Enthusiast]

14. Even worse before the cameras.

[azurnoir]

15. Exactly right

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, blackspade.

[blackspade]

7. Besides the racial component....

The callousness and inhumanity is what gets to me.
As Cenk points out, they could have given her the meds but chose not to for some reason.
A little research or caring on their part would have saved this woman's life.
This is murder by neglect.

[artislife]

17. Exactly

So sad.

[magical thyme]

8. it looks like a round of medication may have been missed

because the main jail log doesn't match the medical log. The jail log says she was medicated 3X but the medical log shows only 2X.

Most of her ailments were not potentially lethal, but the aneurysms were. With something that dangerous there simply is no margin for error or neglect.

It is very possible that an order didn't get followed. I expect an autopsy would show various drug levels in her system and confirm.

It is also possible to miss entering into a log, if you get distracted and aren't able to get back to what you were doing until some time later. It's a nightmare the number of logs we have to fill in at the hospital and urgent care labs where I work. We miss entries all the time.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/officials-admit-ralkina-jones-may-have-been-improperly-medicated-before-she-died-in-police-custody-10452953.html

[sabrina 1]

9. So, when does the Government step in to protect their citizens from

these murderers?? We are all over the world, supposedly 'protecting' American, spending trillions on ghosts, or what they call terrorists.

Here in the US the civilian police have killed over 500 citizens, mostly AAs, since Jan of this year.

Two Americans, sometimes 3, die at the hands of what are in my view, the real enemy the government SHOULD be protecting people from.

Once again, another sad RIP

[Enthusiast]

11. Sabrina, that is a fine post. You make such an excellent point.

We are spending trillions chasing ghosts while the very police being paid to serve and protect are killing far far more American citizens than any terrorists.

Just a guess, bit I imagine the police have unjustifiably killed more citizens since 9/11 than were killed in the 9/11 event.

President Obama needs to have a megaphone on the rubble pile moment.

[sabrina 1]

12. I used to follow a blog which was trying to keep track of the number of Americans killed by cops

each day. It was hard because they don't even record, imagine that, they do not record all of the killings by cop and apparently are not required to do so.

I was shocked every time I checked into the site. In fact sometimes I simply could not believe this could go on and NOT be headline news until something was done about it.

It literally sickened me. Years after I discovered that site, Ferguson happened and it did make the news, a few have in the past too, and I thought 'wall to wall coverage for a week or so, then nothing' is how this will end.

Still, I was hoping that while Michael Brown's death was just one more, this might be the pivotal moment that WOULD end the silence on this issue.

The media did go away as was predictable, though I was surprised to see the coverage it DID get, for a while.

But today we have a better tool, Social Media, and even after the media went away, and little interest was shown on forums like this sadly, I began to follow the protesters on twitter, as I had with OWS, who btw, were joining in the effort to keep the protests public as they had with their own movement.

So while the media wasn't there over the past year, and few who are now expressing enormous 'interest' in these protesters, were absent, the protests continued, the arrests, the NG, the declared 'states of emergency' from both Repub AND Democratic mayors and Govs, as with OWS.

Then Bernie Sanders entered the race for the WH. The one candidate with a long record on trying to end the legislation, tough on crime eg, that has facilitated the oppression by the 'authorities' of AAs, AND empower those same minorities by providing them with access to the same economic opportunities White americans have.

And suddenly, those same 'absent' individuals for the past year, suddenly discovered their 'cause'.

And their target became the one person who had been fighting for that cause all of his adult life.

And it is sickening to see this hundreds of years old issue being USED as a political football so cynically.

Bernie has masterfully handled the attempted smear campaign in order to use THAT to draw attention to what he has been saying for his entire political career, but with little or no help from the suddenly crowned 'champions' of Civil Rights, who were nowhere to be found, until now.

[Enthusiast]

10. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

What a travesty! These officers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Of course they will not be held accountable for what is essentially murder.

Where is the DOJ in cases like this? This officer should be made an example of. I see this as an opportunity. This would be a good time for President Obama to piss off white policemen all over the nation. If I was in Obama's shoes I would make a point of it. I would go after these racist bastards with everything I had.

[artislife]

16. How many more?

You are not a full human to the jailors.

Ralkina Jones, she tried to advocate for herself and still, she died.

Peace to her loved ones