Ex-officer convicted in Matthew Ajibade case allowed to serve time on weekends

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

A former Georgia sheriff’s deputy, convicted for using a stun gun on a restrained detainee who later died alone in his cell, was sentenced on Friday to one month in jail and three years’ probation.

His conviction for cruelty of an inmate carried jail time of up to three years. But significantly shorter jail time was not the only way Chatham County superior court judge James Bass issued a more lenient sentence: he also allowed the former deputy to serve his time on the weekends.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...georgia-student-taser-officer-prison-weekends

The victim was having some emotional bipolar manic issue and the police had received a call about domestic violence. The victim was handcuffed. Okay. His feet were shackled. Weird. Then, he was tased multiple times. Very weird.

There was a coverup with the blue wall of silence:

Another ex-deputy, Maxine Evans, received six years’ probation for providing false grand jury testimony, along with a $1,000 fine and 350 hours’ community service. A jail nurse, Gregory Brown, was found guilty of making false statements to investigators and received three years’ probation.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

 

[laughing dog]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

Are you seriously suggesting this sadist is back on the job during the week? Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?

 

[Derec]

The victim was having some emotional bipolar manic issue and the police had received a call about domestic violence. The victim was handcuffed. Okay. His feet were shackled. Weird. Then, he was tased multiple times. Very weird.

If he continued to trash after being handcuffed and shackled that would explain it. It is obviously very difficult to deal with combative people with mental disorders, especially in the middle of an acute episode.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

Wasn't this about a person that died?

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The victim was having some emotional bipolar manic issue and the police had received a call about domestic violence. The victim was handcuffed. Okay. His feet were shackled. Weird. Then, he was tased multiple times. Very weird.

If he continued to trash after being handcuffed and shackled that would explain it. It is obviously very difficult to deal with combative people with mental disorders, especially in the middle of an acute episode.

And it is too bad some officers clearly seem incapable of dealing with such situations.

 

[KeepTalking]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

Are you seriously suggesting this sadist is back on the job during the week? Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?

A can attest to the fact that it is not the case that violent criminals are allowed to do their time on weekends. When I was doing time in the county, the weekenders were entirely those convicted of DUI.

 

[ZiprHead]

The victim was having some emotional bipolar manic issue and the police had received a call about domestic violence. The victim was handcuffed. Okay. His feet were shackled. Weird. Then, he was tased multiple times. Very weird.

If he continued to trash after being handcuffed and shackled that would explain it. It is obviously very difficult to deal with combative people with mental disorders, especially in the middle of an acute episode.

Then you take them to a fucking hospital for treatment, not a morgue.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

Are you seriously suggesting this sadist is back on the job during the week? Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?

I didn't say he was back as an officer. Rather, I was suggesting it was likely he had some job. And it's common for things like DUI.

 

[bilby]

Are you seriously suggesting this sadist is back on the job during the week? Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?

I didn't say he was back as an officer. Rather, I was suggesting it was likely he had some job. And it's common for things like DUI.

...and other non-violent crimes, like tazing a restrained inmate?

 

[laughing dog]

Are you seriously suggesting this sadist is back on the job during the week? Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?

I didn't say he was back as an officer. Rather, I was suggesting it was likely he had some job. And it's common for things like DUI.

Why would it be likely he has some job since he was full time deputy before his incarceration? And I will repeat my question your response ignored - "Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?". DUIs are not violent criminals.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

The victim was having some emotional bipolar manic issue and the police had received a call about domestic violence. The victim was handcuffed. Okay. His feet were shackled. Weird. Then, he was tased multiple times. Very weird.

If he continued to trash after being handcuffed and shackled that would explain it. It is obviously very difficult to deal with combative people with mental disorders, especially in the middle of an acute episode.

When did we become a nation where torture-induced compliance is so routine that we do not even consider the existence of alternatives?

 

[RavenSky]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

Sort of like the life he destroyed?

 

[Nexus]

Allowing people to serve sentences on the weekend is common when they have productive lives that would be destroyed by a normal sentence.

Unfortunately some of the productive work he does is killing.

 

[Frikki]

Are you seriously suggesting this sadist is back on the job during the week? Do you have any evidence that violent criminals are routinely permitted to serve sentences on the weekend so that they can return to their jobs during the week?

I didn't say he was back as an officer. Rather, I was suggesting it was likely he had some job. And it's common for things like DUI.

Are you compairing a DUI to a police officer killing a human being? What is wrong with you?

 

[AthenaAwakened]

I didn't say he was back as an officer. Rather, I was suggesting it was likely he had some job. And it's common for things like DUI.

Are you compairing a DUI to a police officer killing a human being? What is wrong with you?

Should you get him to answer, please let me know.

 

[Derec]

If he continued to trash after being handcuffed and shackled that would explain it. It is obviously very difficult to deal with combative people with mental disorders, especially in the middle of an acute episode.

When did we become a nation where torture-induced compliance is so routine that we do not even consider the existence of alternatives?

If there is a better way, by all means, police should be trained in them. However, there will always be risk associated in subduing a non-compliant suspect. Doubly so if substance abuse or mental illness is involved.
There was another similar case in Virginia where a guy trashed his motel room after taking cocaine and the police trying to take him to the ER. However, when they got there he broke police cruiser window and started running toward the entrance upon which they tased him and shackled his feet. That is logical response to a handcuffed person starting to run, don't you think? You enforce compliance and up the level of restraint.
Now the whole thing gets more controversial because they tased him more times after that and took him to jail instead of leaving him at the ER but the point still stands that police is going to escalate their response if the suspect escalates his.
By the way, the cause of death in the Virginia case is "acute cocaine intoxication" so the cops might be in the clear.

 

[laughing dog]

When did we become a nation where torture-induced compliance is so routine that we do not even consider the existence of alternatives?

If there is a better way, by all means, police should be trained in them. However, there will always be risk associated in subduing a non-compliant suspect. Doubly so if substance abuse or mental illness is involved.
There was another similar case in Virginia where a guy trashed his motel room after taking cocaine and the police trying to take him to the ER. However, when they got there he broke police cruiser window and started running toward the entrance upon which they tased him and shackled his feet. That is logical response to a handcuffed person starting to run, don't you think? You enforce compliance and up the level of restraint.
Now the whole thing gets more controversial because they tased him more times after that and took him to jail instead of leaving him at the ER but the point still stands that police is going to escalate their response if the suspect escalates his.
By the way, the cause of death in the Virginia case is "acute cocaine intoxication" so the cops might be in the clear.

In this particular case,

A video later released showed Kenny shocked Ajibade four times with a Taser, while the Nigerian man’s hands and feet were shackled. A local coroner ruled the student’s death a homicide by blunt force trauma. Kenny and eight other deputies were fired after the incident.

(from OP link). Since the victim in this case had his hands and feet shackled, perhaps you could explain why you think your response is at all relevant.

 

[Derec]

Since the victim in this case had his hands and feet shackled, perhaps you could explain why you think your response is at all relevant.

It was part of the conversation with Don where he expressed bewilderment as to why a handcuffed man would also have to be shackled and tasered.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Since the victim in this case had his hands and feet shackled, perhaps you could explain why you think your response is at all relevant.

It was part of the conversation with Don where he expressed bewilderment as to why a handcuffed man would also have to be shackled and tasered.

What is the benefit of tasering if he is shackled?

 

[laughing dog]

Since the victim in this case had his hands and feet shackled, perhaps you could explain why you think your response is at all relevant.

It was part of the conversation with Don where he expressed bewilderment as to why a handcuffed man would also have to be shackled and tasered.

Perhaps you could explain why you think your response is at all relevant.