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Originally Posted by ChrisAnubis
As far as the sick cell goes, the kid played basketball in school and would have to have to pull himself from the games due to fatigue. Now, as a parent, for the number of times this kid would pull himself out of a game, I would have had it looked into.
As far as the parents go, I don't know them. But knowing that your kid has a problem and NOT checking it out is child neglect at the least. Perhaps the NAACP shouldd be questioning why the parents weren't more poractive concerning their child's health and whereabouts they screaming racism.
The problem I have with this story is that it has been slated as a hate crime against a BLACK kid. And the black community is who is spurring this on. That is what gets me steamed about this story.
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I can agree Chris. If I'm wrong, weren't some of those deputies black? I dunno. Vid is real bad.
Bottom line is, if the kid had Sickle Cell and it's the cause of his death then it should have been detected by his thorough medical exam when he entered the criminal justice system. Bottom-fucking-line. He's a minor, his medical condition prior and during incarceration is mandatory. What if he had some allergy or heart malfunction etc.? It goes to ask the bigger question as to how they fucked up missing something like Sickle Cell when it's clearly one of the easiest tests to do with just a finger prick and a high school microscope.
He shouldn't have been on that field exercising with that condition in the first place. That ALONE is negligence and incompetence on part of the sheriff's dept. whether the parents knew he had it or not.
That's the lawsuit. Not the supposed beat down which we don't see on the vid.