Florida cops torture, kill man - no charges

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http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/investigates/photo-shows-pepper-sprayed-prisoner-12142011

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TAMPA - No doubt you've heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it.

The photo shows the Ohio man restrained inside the Lee County Jail with his body covered in pepper spray.

"This photo is a picture of a man who is strapped to a chair naked inside a jail for hours with a hood over his face. That evokes thoughts of being tortured," says Cleveland-based lawyer Nick DiCello who represents the Christie family.

The photo, which was obtained by FOX 13's investigative unit, was taken in the final hours of Christie's life.

The District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff's office of any wrong doing.

It's been more than two and a half years and his wife still can't accept what happened.

"I was shocked. This was something out of a horror movie," says Joyce Christie. She said her husband was depressed and was showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving for Florida.

She called authorities and pleaded with them to take her husband to a hospital and be given his medications. Instead, he was taken to jail for disorderly intoxication.

Her lawsuit alleges he was pepper sprayed 10 times over a 48-hour period, at times while in a restraint chair.

Tom DePolis spent more than 30 years in law enforcement at the Tampa Police Department and Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. He's seen first-hand the effects of pepper spray and knows its limitations. He can see no reason for deputies to repeatedly pepper spray Nick Christie since he was already in custody.

"The purpose is to temporarily incapacitate someone -- temporarily, that's the key word, so you can restrain them," says DePolis.

Monshay Gibbs was a deputy trainee at the jail at the time. In a video deposition, she testified that she thought the way Nick Christie was treated was excessive.

"He had a spit mask on and was naked," she said on the video while under oath. Gibbs testified that Christie pleaded with guards to take off the spit mask because he couldn't breathe.

He later died at the hospital. His heart failed from the shock of the pepper spray. The Lee County Sheriffs Office declined to comment on our story because of Joyce Christie's wrongful death lawsuit, which is scheduled for trial the middle of next year.
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There will come a time when a family member takes justice into their own hands.
 
I think we're close to the point where even the normal people who care more about the NFL than politics can start getting outraged about stuff like this.
 
The county prosecutor already closed the criminal aspect of the case. There is a civil trial moving forward. The county will end up having to pay damages to his family. But why do the tax payers have to foot the bill for the abuse of the officers while none of the officers will face charges or even firing over it? This is really sickening that the people of that county are even putting up with it. That DA should be impeached or recalled or whatever the process is down there in Florida.
 
Too bad the reporters at the end of the video were whining for more government regulations of pepper spray in general.
 
Ever watched Vegas on TruTV? It is a reality show that tapes people being processed in a city or county jail in Vegas. They put people strapped in the restraining chair with the hood on ALL the time, basically whenever they don't feel like dealing with people. It is one of the most dehumanizing shows ever.
 
TexanRudeBoy said:
Ever watched Vegas on TruTV? It is a reality show that tapes people being processed in a city or county jail in Vegas. They put people strapped in the restraining chair with the hood on ALL the time, basically whenever they don't feel like dealing with people. It is one of the most dehumanizing shows ever.
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I watched like 5 minutes and turned it off. It doesn't speak well for the country that there exist enough people who watch it voluntarily for it to be a real show.
 
Anti Federalist said:
I don't know what it will take, screaming in people's faces or what...

DO NOT CALL THE COPS!!!
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A crack head came into the store the other day. He was to messed up to walk so it told him we where closed and pushed him out and locked the door. He started screaming and hit the glass them road off on his bike. The situation had ended, I handled it because it needed to be handled. Then my boss grabbed the phone and some customer was telling him to call the cops because he was clearly deranged. I put a stop to that real quick and in a hurry telling both of them the cops are more then likely to get someone killed then cracky off yonder.

I thought of you while I put a stop to the 2nd situation AF. Your making a difference.
 
Anti Federalist said:
I don't know what it will take, screaming in people's faces or what...

DO NOT CALL THE COPS!!!
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Whenever I talk about the cops in public, some jackass invariably says, "Yeah you talk all big, but who are you gonna call to save you if you are ever in trouble?" I don't think people understand the concept that I literally am NOT going to call the cops. That's the whole goddamn point.
 
Carehn said:
A crack head came into the store the other day. He was to messed up to walk so it told him we where closed and pushed him out and locked the door. He started screaming and hit the glass them road off on his bike. The situation had ended, I handled it because it needed to be handled. Then my boss grabbed the phone and some customer was telling him to call the cops because he was clearly deranged. I put a stop to that real quick and in a hurry telling both of them the cops are more then likely to get someone killed then cracky off yonder.

I thought of you while I put a stop to the 2nd situation AF. Your making a difference.
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Thanks.

You probably saved that guys life.

With any luck, he went home or wherever and slept it off.
 
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