Lee County Deputies Tied Suspect to a Chair, Gagged Him, and Pepper-Sprayed Him to De

[joboo]

Lee County Deputies Tied Suspect to a Chair, Gagged Him, and Pepper-Sprayed Him to Death (http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/23/lee-county-deputies-tied-suspect-to-a-ch)

62-year-old Ohio man who was detained by the Lee County Sheriff's Office for being publicly intoxicated. While Christie's wife asked that he be taken to the hospital, Lee County cops decided instead to strip Christie naked, tie him to a chair, cover his face, and then pepper spray him repeatedly, until he died:

"He had a spit mask on, and was naked,"
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I guess tossing him a holding cell to sleep it off was too easy?

[midnight rambler]

I'm convinced that 'LE' agencies run psych evaluations on all potential recruits to garner as many sociopaths as possible, 'cause only sociopaths and psychopaths are capable of this sort of behavior (e.g. no empathy and a sense of entitlement)

[ximmy]

Desensitize the public with stories and pictures until they accept it as normal.

[letter_factory]

If christie didn't have a birth certificate, it owuldn't have happened. he voluntarily engaged in a social contract to be pepper sprayed to death.

[iOWNme]

INCREDIBLY sad to me.....

Another human being who has been treated like an animal. How can a man treat another man like this? I just cant see it. Maybe because 99% of Kops aren't 'Men'.

[midnight rambler]

INCREDIBLY sad to me.....

Another human being who has been treated like an animal. How can a man treat another man like this? I just cant see it. Maybe because 99% of Kops aren't 'Men'.

Indeed, they are beasts working for the beast system.

[mick silver]

just wait till the ones from the war zones get to be cops then the fun starts. something wrong with a man who treats a person like this and he know better . i just hope they get to spent many many years behind bars and they get to meet a big buck there and he make them his bitch

[Dogman]

Photo shows pepper-sprayed prisoner

Updated: Thursday, 15 Dec 2011, 5:19 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 14 Dec 2011, 11:37 PM EST

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http://media2.myfoxtampabay.com//photo/2009/01/28/SMITH_DOUG_4X6_20090128180435804_60_45.JPGDoug Smith (http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/about_us/personalities/Dough_Smith_bio)
FOX 13 Investigative reporter (http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/about_us/personalities/Dough_Smith_bio)

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.


Video at link!

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

[palani]

If christie didn't have a birth certificate, it owuldn't have happened. he voluntarily engaged in a social contract to be pepper sprayed to death.

You don't expect trespasses to come at you one at a time do you?

Pepper spray is a drug. All drug laws are controlled by the FDA under "man or other animal" laws. There is a downside to being classed an "animal".