Protesters To March On New Hampshire Jail Where Homeless Fast Food Worker Died Mysteriously
Protesters To March On New Hampshire Jail Where Homeless Fast Food Worker Died Mysteriously
by Alan Pyke Mar 25, 2016 10:11 am
Jeffery Pendleton was only 26 when he was found dead in a jail cell in Manchester’s Valley Street detention facility earlier this month. The Arkansas native had been working at a Burger King in Nashua, New Hampshire, earning something like $100 a week and sleeping on the streets because he couldn’t afford housing.
An official autopsy found no signs of trauma or clear cause of death, leaving Pendleton’s family in Arkansas and friends in the Fight for $15 workers’ movement confused, angry, and suspicious.
A group of workers from the area and police watchdogs from elsewhere in New England are set to march Friday on a Department of Corrections headquarters in New Hampshire to demand answers.
A GoFundMe page raising money for Pendleton’s family to cover burial costs says they commissioned a second examination of his body. That second autopsy indicates he “was harmed prior to his death and likely that harmed caused his death,” according to the burial fundraising page. The family were not available for interviews.
More:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/25/3763402/jeffery-pendleton-protest-fast-food-cash-bail-police-brutality/
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