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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Prison gang beat schizophrenic inmate unconscious with broom before throwing MICROWAVE on his head four times while guards making NO attempt to stop them
2021-11-23
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Video posted to social media on Sunday shows the moment a prison gang beat a schizophrenic inmate unconscious with everything they could grab

  • Jayshawn Boyd, 22, was standing in a common area of the Essex County Correctional Facility when a group of inmates started beating him

  • One of them could be seen holding an industrial broom, which he uses to hit Boyd with as the others grab other items

  • Another inmate dumps water from a mop bucket on him

  • And others hit him with everything they can, including one shirtless man who threw a microwave on his head four times

  • The seven men have been charged but have not yet gone before a grand jury

  • No guards interfered during the altercation

  • Lawyers for Boyd are now suing Essex County, New Jersey officials claiming they violated his Constitutional rights by putting him in a dangerous situation

  • They claim he was put in the 'gang unit' of the prison, despite not being a gang member

  • They also claim negligence and improper training by the Essex County Department of Corrections prompted the attack

  • Boyd is now in a medically-induced coma at a Newark hospital
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Another white supremacist gang beating on a hapless black man?
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-11-23 13:43  

#3  Sounds like he was arrested for multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon, plead down, bailed, and then failed to appear at a hearing.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-11-23 08:26  

#2  Boyd is now in a medically-induced coma

..but only after hiring lawyers?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-11-23 08:10  

#1  More from the article:

Boyd's lawyers filed a tort claim late last month against Essex County officials claiming that correctional officers violated Boyd's Constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment by putting him in a 'gang unit' - even though Boyd is not a member of any gang.

Boyd was taken into custody at the jail on September 9 for two domestic altercations involving his mother and his brother.

In May, Boyd - who suffers from schizophrenia - was transferred from the Essex County jail to Ann Klein, a psychiatry hospital, as he awaited sentencing and a trial for the domestic assaults, NJ.com reports.

Mr. Boyd should be in a locked psychiatric ward for the violent insane, but the only place that has such long term housing is the prison system — but not all prisons have separate areas for the criminally insane. Contra the Daily Mail’s report, we don’t know what happened after these few minutes.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-11-23 08:06  

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