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@TexasObserver

>On this particular day last year, she feared leaving the shower because she thought someone was trying to harm her. She hears voices and sees imaginary people. The officer on duty tried to calm her down. Her mental health counselors tried to persuade her that no one was out there or going to harm her. To no avail.
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>After about an hour of trying to get Timmons out of the shower, Senior Warden Audrey England seemed frustrated. ...
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>“Get this dumba** out of here! Run a team,” I thought I heard the warden say.
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>“Run a team” means suit up for combat. The team, which were mainly male officers, raced into the shower where the woman in crisis was naked. They were carrying Tasers and batons and after deploying those weapons left her on the floor, cooking like a steak on a grill. It was the first time I saw or heard a Taser used in prison.
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>After hours of being left on the shower floor, Timmons was hogtied with shackles and dragged to her cell naked by male officers. Burn marks could be seen where the prongs from the Tasers roasted her skin. The smell of seared flesh filled the air.

The cruelty is the point. If Timmons was going to be left in the showers for hours anyway, why bother deploying tasers or a team on her in the first place? I want to say that a psych ward is a better place for addressing mental illness, but having been involuntarily committed before myself, the similarities between a ward and and a prison are too uncanny to ignore.

#CriminalJustice #bipolar #bp2 #MentalHealth

@TexasObserver

>On this particular day last year, she feared leaving the shower because she thought someone was trying to harm her. She hears voices and sees imaginary people. The officer on duty tried to calm her down. Her mental health counselors tried to persuade her that no one was out there or going to harm her. To no avail.
>
>After about an hour of trying to get Timmons out of the shower, Senior Warden Audrey England seemed frustrated. ...
>
>“Get this dumba** out of here! Run a team,” I thought I heard the warden say.
>
>“Run a team” means suit up for combat. The team, which were mainly male officers, raced into the shower where the woman in crisis was naked. They were carrying Tasers and batons and after deploying those weapons left her on the floor, cooking like a steak on a grill. It was the first time I saw or heard a Taser used in prison.
>
>After hours of being left on the shower floor, Timmons was hogtied with shackles and dragged to her cell naked by male officers. Burn marks could be seen where the prongs from the Tasers roasted her skin. The smell of seared flesh filled the air.

The cruelty is the point. If Timmons was going to be left in the showers for hours anyway, why bother deploying tasers or a team on her in the first place? I want to say that a psych ward is a better place for addressing mental illness, but having been involuntarily committed before myself, the similarities between a ward and and a prison are too uncanny to ignore.

#CriminalJustice #bipolar #bp2 #MentalHealth

@TexasObserver

>On this particular day last year, she feared leaving the shower because she thought someone was trying to harm her. She hears voices and sees imaginary people. The officer on duty tried to calm her down. Her mental health counselors tried to persuade her that no one was out there or going to harm her. To no avail.
>
>After about an hour of trying to get Timmons out of the shower, Senior Warden Audrey England seemed frustrated. ...
>
>“Get this dumba** out of here! Run a team,” I thought I heard the warden say.
>
>“Run a team” means suit up for combat. The team, which were mainly male officers, raced into the shower where the woman in crisis was naked. They were carrying Tasers and batons and after deploying those weapons left her on the floor, cooking like a steak on a grill. It was the first time I saw or heard a Taser used in prison.
>
>After hours of being left on the shower floor, Timmons was hogtied with shackles and dragged to her cell naked by male officers. Burn marks could be seen where the prongs from the Tasers roasted her skin. The smell of seared flesh filled the air.

The cruelty is the point. If Timmons was going to be left in the showers for hours anyway, why bother deploying tasers or a team on her in the first place? I want to say that a psych ward is a better place for addressing mental illness, but having been involuntarily committed before myself, the similarities between a ward and and a prison are too uncanny to ignore.

#CriminalJustice #bipolar #bp2 #MentalHealth

@TexasObserver

>On this particular day last year, she feared leaving the shower because she thought someone was trying to harm her. She hears voices and sees imaginary people. The officer on duty tried to calm her down. Her mental health counselors tried to persuade her that no one was out there or going to harm her. To no avail.
>
>After about an hour of trying to get Timmons out of the shower, Senior Warden Audrey England seemed frustrated. ...
>
>“Get this dumba** out of here! Run a team,” I thought I heard the warden say.
>
>“Run a team” means suit up for combat. The team, which were mainly male officers, raced into the shower where the woman in crisis was naked. They were carrying Tasers and batons and after deploying those weapons left her on the floor, cooking like a steak on a grill. It was the first time I saw or heard a Taser used in prison.
>
>After hours of being left on the shower floor, Timmons was hogtied with shackles and dragged to her cell naked by male officers. Burn marks could be seen where the prongs from the Tasers roasted her skin. The smell of seared flesh filled the air.

The cruelty is the point. If Timmons was going to be left in the showers for hours anyway, why bother deploying tasers or a team on her in the first place? I want to say that a psych ward is a better place for addressing mental illness, but having been involuntarily committed before myself, the similarities between a ward and and a prison are too uncanny to ignore.

#CriminalJustice #bipolar #bp2 #MentalHealth

@TexasObserver

>On this particular day last year, she feared leaving the shower because she thought someone was trying to harm her. She hears voices and sees imaginary people. The officer on duty tried to calm her down. Her mental health counselors tried to persuade her that no one was out there or going to harm her. To no avail.
>
>After about an hour of trying to get Timmons out of the shower, Senior Warden Audrey England seemed frustrated. ...
>
>“Get this dumba** out of here! Run a team,” I thought I heard the warden say.
>
>“Run a team” means suit up for combat. The team, which were mainly male officers, raced into the shower where the woman in crisis was naked. They were carrying Tasers and batons and after deploying those weapons left her on the floor, cooking like a steak on a grill. It was the first time I saw or heard a Taser used in prison.
>
>After hours of being left on the shower floor, Timmons was hogtied with shackles and dragged to her cell naked by male officers. Burn marks could be seen where the prongs from the Tasers roasted her skin. The smell of seared flesh filled the air.

The cruelty is the point. If Timmons was going to be left in the showers for hours anyway, why bother deploying tasers or a team on her in the first place? I want to say that a psych ward is a better place for addressing mental illness, but having been involuntarily committed before myself, the similarities between a ward and and a prison are too uncanny to ignore.

#CriminalJustice #bipolar #bp2 #MentalHealth

The day job had some shenanigans which got me out of the house today.
I was driving past the cinema and I thought 'oh I should see BP2 while Im out' and then I remembered I saw it literally yesterday. Was the movie really that forgettable? Or am I just getting old?
#movies #bp2

The day job had some shenanigans which got me out of the house today.
I was driving past the cinema and I thought 'oh I should see BP2 while Im out' and then I remembered I saw it literally yesterday. Was the movie really that forgettable? Or am I just getting old?
#movies #bp2