Let's be clear: The brutal death of Natasha McKenna was not an accident
Last edited Mon May 11, 2015, 08:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Added: 5/11/15 - 9 pm I'm almost sorry I posted this ...but then all these killings and killers need to be known.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/11/1383983/-Let-s-be-clear-The-brutal-death-of-Natasha-McKenna-was-not-an-accident?detail=facebook
On April 28, the Fairfax County, Virginia, medical examiner ruled that the in-custody death of Natasha McKenna was an accident.
It wasn't.
Her death was the brutal, intentional, and of force so excessive that both of her eyes were blackened, a finger was amputated, she was covered in bruises, and never woke up again after being repeatedly Tasered by the police. Mind you, this was all done to her after her hands were cuffed, her feet were shackled, and a hood put over her head. Some reports also state that she was apparently stripped completely naked as well.
No, this wasn't an accident.
<snip>She died because she was restrained and repeatedly shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity. She went into cardiac arrest and never spoke another word again because of the Taser, not because of her mental illness. Anything above three shocks by the Taser is known to cause real problems and even cardiac arrest.
Drago also noted, “If you put too many of these charges together, the folks in the medical field say when you go above three (charges), you get into a gray area about whether it causes cardiac arrest or not. It’s all part of the analysis. That’s the problem with the Taser. It doesn’t have a mind of its own. Officers have to read the warning bulletins.”
She should've never been in jail in the first place. Even though she had a clearly identifiable mental illness and had been hospitalized by the state on other occasions, Natasha McKenna sat in the Fairfax County jail for eight long days without the appropriate medical attention she so badly needed. During this time, McKenna had been assaulted by officers on January 31.
This just makes me sick! more at link
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the intent of your post, is what again?
Our police forces need to be cashiered. What a bunch of perverted psychopaths.
for Natasha McKenna
One of the all-time great blues guitarists, "a suicide."
According to Carl Peed, now sheriff, then PR officer, shortly after Buchanan was placed in holding cell R-45, he was discovered with a crushed larynx and died en route to the hospital. The sheriff said an investigation showed that the 220-pound Buchanan had hung himself from a waist-high bar in the cell door using his own t-shirt.
There are still missing pieces to the puzzle of what happened that night. Even 10 years later, a hard look at the evidence requires withholding judgment. At Buchanan's funeral, one former band member recalled that Judy opened the coffin for them.
"It was obvious he'd had his head bashed in," this witness said. "There were bruises on his head. I saw them." The Fairfax County coroner's report did not mention bruises on Buchanan's head. Thus questions have arisen that still call out for answers.
If he took his own life, perhaps darkness won out in the end. If he was killed, we've done him a disservice by drawing attention to his demons. Roy Buchanan had something musical to say - something deep inside him, often beautiful and too often painful - and it only came out when he had a guitar, preferably his '53 Tele, in his hands. Despite the difficulties and missed opportunities, Buchanan's soulful honesty lives on.
SOURCE: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/guitar-legend-roy-buchanan-died-15-years-ago-today.19998/
Mr. Buchanan died in 1988 in the Fairfax, Va, county jail. His music was amazing. FWIU, his wife tossed him out of the house after he and a friend were drinking heavily. He subsequently had some kind of run-in with the police. I saw him perform in California in 1986 in a small bar holding maybe 150 people with Lonnie Mack and Dickie Betts. Roy Buchanan certainly did not seem like a violent person.
My heart breaks for Ms. McKenna. Hers is an important story, thank you for bringing it to DU, L0oniX. These are strange days when the police are acting like We the People are enemies of the state.
Interesting story on Roy Buchanan.
TYY
