Every single supposedly progressive white person who says "I don't see color" should be held to account for horrific torture like this. Because it is exactly the refusal to acknowledge what happens every fucking day to non-white people that makes it not even a crime to murder them by literally boiling them alive.
On June 23,
2012, Darren Rainey, a schizophrenic man serving time for cocaine
possession, was thrown into a prison shower at the Dade Correctional
Institution. The water was turned up top 180 degrees — hot enough to
steep tea or cook Ramen noodles.
As
punishment, four corrections officers — John Fan Fan, Cornelius
Thompson, Ronald Clarke and Edwina Williams — kept Rainey in that shower
for two full hours. Rainey was heard screaming “Please take me out! I
can’t take it anymore!” and kicking the shower door. Inmates said prison
guards laughed at Rainey and shouted “Is it hot enough?”
Rainey
died inside that shower. He was found crumpled on the floor. When his
body was pulled out, nurses said there were burns on 90 percent of his
body. A nurse said his body temperature was too high to register with a
thermometer.
And his skin fell off at the touch.
But in an unconscionable decision, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s office announced Friday that the four guards who oversaw what amounted to a medieval-era boiling will not be charged with a crime.
“The
shower was itself neither dangerous nor unsafe,’’ the report says. “The
evidence does not show that Rainey’s well-being was grossly disregarded
by the correctional staff.’’
What is there even to say at this point?
Only Blue Lives Matter.
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