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| Jan. 6 Prisoners And Families Expose Brutal Truth About Jail Lockdown | |
| 2022-09-11 | |
‘[EXPLETIVE] JUST WENT DOWN’ According to the text message sent by one Jan. 6 prisoner to a family member, “[Expletive] just went down” at the Correctional Treatment Facility in Washington, D.C., around 9:46 a.m. on Sept. 5. One of the guards had just “assaulted McAbee because he wasn’t wearing a mask.” The prisoner’s name is Ronald Colton McAbee. His wife, Sarah, described to The Epoch Times what happened. McAbee had just been let out of his cell by a pod officer in order to receive his medications. Inmates, Sarah explained, have to take their meds in front of the nurse to prove they swallowed the pills. The med cart was about 25 feet from the door of McAbee’s cell. When he walked out of the cell to go get his meds, he was not wearing his mask. Lieutenant Crystal Lancaster began yelling at him and ordering him to put his mask on. He said he was going to get his medication and didn’t need his mask. It was after McAbee had taken his medication it is alleged that Lancaster doused his face with OC spray. While pepper spray and OC spray are essentially comprised of the same ingredients, the higher concentration of Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) is what sets them far apart. A March 1994 report (pdf) issued by the United States Department of Justice acknowledged the more potent and potentially lethal properties of OC Spray when used outside of recommended guidelines or on someone with pre-existing respiratory conditions, such as asthma. With McAbee on the ground in pain, Lancaster ordered the pod officer to handcuff him. As McAbee was being handcuffed, Lancaster sprayed him again, point blank, in the face. Sarah’s account is validated by the texts sent by other Jan. 6 prisoners to their family members. By now, Sarah said other Jan. 6 prisoners had emerged from their cells. Three of them, Ron Sandlin, Bart Shively, and Ryan Nichols, began yelling at Lancaster, telling her to stop her assault on McAbee. Sandlin was then handcuffed. He and McAbee were taken away to solitary confinement. Shively and Nichols were also sprayed, cuffed, and placed in isolation pods. According to Sarah, there are no cameras in the isolation pod area. “It’s very concerning because the guards can come in and do whatever they like to these people with no accountability,” she said. Messages sent by two more Jan. 6 prisoner provides corroboration and more detail. A HISTORY OF ABUSE AND SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS Sarah then recalled that the facility has a long history of sub-human conditions. She also noted that Lancaster, notorious among Jan. 6 prisoners and their family members for being particularly vulgar and brutal, had been banned from the Jan. 6 pod for verbal abuse and for stealing the inmates’ mail. “I don’t know if that ban was lifted or why she was in that pod,” she said. Her account was again validated independently by the messages from other Jan. 6 prisoners. | |
| Posted by:Gravinter Graviper2440 |
| #6 Senile or not, Joe Biden is quite clear-eyed when it comes to Carl Schmitt's Friend/Enemy Distinction. Something we should all remember in our day-to-day lives. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2022-09-11 20:46 |
| #5 Where is Amnesty intl. on this? Hanging out with the ACLU. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-09-11 17:42 |
| #4 ^ second that. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-09-11 16:55 |
| #3 If you attack the king you must be sure to kill him. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-09-11 16:40 |
| #2 Everything about the pre trial confinement and two-tiered justice system is an abomination with respect to our Constitution. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-09-11 15:29 |
| #1 Where is Amnesty intl. on this? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-09-11 14:48 |