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| Texas sheriff fires 11 employees, suspends 6 over inmate's death in cell following investigation |
| 2021-05-29 |
| [FoxNews] A Texas sheriff fired 11 department employees and suspended six others without pay this week in connection with the death of an inmate who was found unresponsive in his cell in February after allegedly being hit multiple times by officers. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Friday that the terminated employees "betrayed my trust and the trust of our community," in their treatment of Jaquaree Simmons, 23, who allegedly had three altercations with detention officers on Feb. 16, a three-month sheriff’s office internal investigation found. Simmons had been booked into jail on weapons charges a week earlier, according to Houston Public Media. On the morning of Feb. 16, Simmons clogged his toilet with his clothes and after officers went in to clean the flooded cell they returned him to his cell stripped of his clothes, a policy violation that was allegedly not reported. "When removing an inmates clothes, you're supposed to advise a supervisor, you're supposed to increase the rate in which you conduct visual checks, and you're supposed to provide a suicide smock," Major Thomas Diaz of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said, according to Houston Public Media. "None of those occurred." Later that night, a detention officer allegedly hit Simmons in the face after he threw his meal tray at the officer and charged at him, according to authorities. When more officers were called in to take him for a medical evaluation, they hit him multiple times in the head, Diaz, who led the internal affairs investigation, said. Simmons told a jail doctor he didn’t have any pain, just cuts to his face, and was returned to his cell. Officers failed to bring him back to the clinic for follow-up X-rays, Diaz said and he was found unresponsive in his cell at noon on Feb. 17. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital. President Biden nominated Gonzalez last month to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 ZFG |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-29 14:22 |
| #1 Jailers did go over the line a little but I shed no tears for the idiot inmate. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-05-29 10:07 |