You may already know this, but the number one cause of death for people who live with sickle cell anemia is heart failure. Medication is an important part of mitigating this eventual set of fatal heart complications.
Of course doing cocaine and partying all night isn’t going to be good for the heart, but preventing someone with complex medical needs in your care/custody from accessing their life saving medication is criminal negligence. Dying from heart failure is a known complication of sickle cell anemia and is generally preventable with medical care.
Again, anyone else with a duty of care over someone who contributes to their death by preventing them from accessing their medication would be in jail. Only cops get away with this kind of criminal behaviour with what’s basically a slap on the wrists. Never in a million years would a parent, or a nurse get away with doing the same thing.
Apparently you think ACAB unless they murder someone through criminal negligence, then “both sides are bad”.
My issue wasn’t with your use of “passed” it was with your use of the passive voice in a situation where the death was directly caused by the active failure of the police to meet their duty of care. Their negligence directly killed an innocent person, or as you put it an “alleged criminal”. Maybe you don’t think those are the same thing.
I certainly don’t feel like all cops are bad unless they let people die. I don’t know how you got that interpretation. I said the cops didn’t do their job and deserved a harsher penalty for failing to do so. I meant that not just for the two cops in the story, but for all their peers to witness the consequences of dereliction of duty too.
I also said this young man didn’t die due to the cops’ negligence, but to his own poor choices. He knew that medication was important and didn’t bring it. He knew sickle cell anemia weakened his organs. And he knew that his choices that night weren’t good for his body, especially with his condition. He chose to do all the things he did anyways, and he paid the ultimate price. Is this sad, yes. Is this preventable, also yes. Did he make the choices he needed to make to ensure his safety? No. He was found motionless less than an hour after being detained, and pronounced dead less than an hour after that. He was more than two hours away from home and his meds.
I see this as being not much different than lathering one’s self up in blood and taking a walk through the savannah. Sure there’s a chance you’ll make it out the other end ok, but most times not. Is it the lions fault that person died, or is it their own fault for not heeding warnings and making unsafe choices?
We all know what our system is. We need to keep that in mind if we do things that risk running afoul of it (And no, I don’t like our system much either, hence the acab statement). If we fail to heed the warnings of our family, friends, doctors and news outlets, well then we shouldn’t be so surprised when Darwinism happens.
You may already know this, but the number one cause of death for people who live with sickle cell anemia is heart failure. Medication is an important part of mitigating this eventual set of fatal heart complications.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7417280/
Of course doing cocaine and partying all night isn’t going to be good for the heart, but preventing someone with complex medical needs in your care/custody from accessing their life saving medication is criminal negligence. Dying from heart failure is a known complication of sickle cell anemia and is generally preventable with medical care.
Again, anyone else with a duty of care over someone who contributes to their death by preventing them from accessing their medication would be in jail. Only cops get away with this kind of criminal behaviour with what’s basically a slap on the wrists. Never in a million years would a parent, or a nurse get away with doing the same thing.
Apparently you think ACAB unless they murder someone through criminal negligence, then “both sides are bad”.
My issue wasn’t with your use of “passed” it was with your use of the passive voice in a situation where the death was directly caused by the active failure of the police to meet their duty of care. Their negligence directly killed an innocent person, or as you put it an “alleged criminal”. Maybe you don’t think those are the same thing.
I certainly don’t feel like all cops are bad unless they let people die. I don’t know how you got that interpretation. I said the cops didn’t do their job and deserved a harsher penalty for failing to do so. I meant that not just for the two cops in the story, but for all their peers to witness the consequences of dereliction of duty too.
I also said this young man didn’t die due to the cops’ negligence, but to his own poor choices. He knew that medication was important and didn’t bring it. He knew sickle cell anemia weakened his organs. And he knew that his choices that night weren’t good for his body, especially with his condition. He chose to do all the things he did anyways, and he paid the ultimate price. Is this sad, yes. Is this preventable, also yes. Did he make the choices he needed to make to ensure his safety? No. He was found motionless less than an hour after being detained, and pronounced dead less than an hour after that. He was more than two hours away from home and his meds.
I see this as being not much different than lathering one’s self up in blood and taking a walk through the savannah. Sure there’s a chance you’ll make it out the other end ok, but most times not. Is it the lions fault that person died, or is it their own fault for not heeding warnings and making unsafe choices?
We all know what our system is. We need to keep that in mind if we do things that risk running afoul of it (And no, I don’t like our system much either, hence the acab statement). If we fail to heed the warnings of our family, friends, doctors and news outlets, well then we shouldn’t be so surprised when Darwinism happens.