Inmate was heard screaming "I'm sorry" and "stop" as he was beaten to death by guards

[davidn3600]

A mentally ill Santa Clara County inmate was heard screaming, “I’m sorry” and “Stop,” as he was allegedly beaten by correctional officers hours before he was found dead, authorities said Tuesday as they charged the jailers with murder.

Court documents described a brutal beating by three correctional officers at the Main Jail in San Jose that culminated in the death of 31-year-old Michael Tyree, who was found naked and covered in feces and vomit in his cell Aug. 27, hours after the beating was meted out when he initially refused to take his medication, prosecutors said.

The attack came after the jailers had roughed up another inmate, prosecutors charged.

Jereh Lubrin, 28, and Matthew Farris and Rafael Rodriguez, both 27, made their first appearance Tuesday afternoon in Superior Court since their arrests last week. All three are on unpaid leave in what Sheriff Laurie Smith has described as a “vile and cowardly act.”
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Tyree’s “distinctive voice could be heard screaming, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Stop,” the affidavit says. “Screaming could be heard throughout the pod for several minutes, and was accompanied by the sounds of thumping, wall banging and what sounded like blows to a person’s body.”

At one point during the alleged attack, Rodriguez closed the door until it was open only a small amount, authorities said.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Clara-County-jail-inmate-died-screaming-6491750.php

The officers never called for medical as they moved on to search other cells. Tyree was found dead later having died from internal bleeding.

[frylock]

1. I hope the fuckers meet with the same fate..

I mean that in all sincerity.

[randys1]

3. Indeed, but no chance. Until we address the reason why so many of us are in jail

in the first place, we can expect more of this.

I havent looked but I wonder if the victims are white.

Not because guards wouldnt beat to death white prisoners, just seems to be a lot more Black people in jail or Latino people, proportionally, than white.

And they are there in higher numbers for one of two reasons:

1. Black people and Latinos are born inferior to whites, and are more prone to violence simply from birth

OR

2. something else is going on.

[secondvariety]

10. He's white.

Shouldn't make any difference what his race is.


http://abc7news.com/news/inmate-allegedly-killed-by-deputies-died-of-blunt-force-trauma/968392/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. True, but it possibly reveals why the guards got into trouble.

[murielm99]

21. I don't think race was the issue this time.

He was mentally ill, or it sounds that way.

Why are the mentally ill in jail?

Thank you Raygun, for de-institutionalization. The mentally ill have nowhere to go but the streets and the jails. They are not getting help.

[hifiguy]

6. +1.

[jeff47]

7. I don't.

I don't want them to die from a beating.

That way it can happen again.

[Enthusiast]

15. Me too.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

19. I try to stick with principle ...

... but when it involves someone who is defenseless and vulnerable like the victim in the OP, then all bets are off.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Michael....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. This is so painful to read. May he rest in peace.

I'm pleased that they were arrested. I hope the jailers are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Just horrifying.

[irisblue]

11. very painful

[daleanime]

5. So what does that make for this year?

Over 800 dead at, or in, the hands of "Law Enforcement".

Jesus wept.

[passiveporcupine]

12. And many of them mentally ill

we need to do something about this system that keeps locking up mentally ill people in jail because there is no other place to hold them when they are not safe to be out in public.

But that may not even be the answer, as things like this have happened in mental institutions too, in the past.

[Ed Suspicious]

8. Somebody should call Amnesty International.

Our country is failing its people.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. They have been writing reports that mostly nobody reads

here is one

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/military-police-and-arms/police-and-human-rights/mass-incarceration-in-the-usa

You want to weep. after that look for this one

http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/entombed-isolation-in-the-us-federal-prison-system

I cite their work regularly in my reporting.

The UN has also written them as well.

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_ICCPR%20Race%20and%20Justice%20Shadow%20Report.pdf

Get yourself some strong coffee and a strong stomach. It is far worst than you think.

And of course there are a slew of others in this vein... from the NCAAP, the Urban League the Sentencing Project... Youth and Justice, I could go on...

[mountain grammy]

9. Another "death in custody" to

add to the "deaths not in custody." Shameful, disgusting, terrifying.

[Enthusiast]

16. +100%!

[Enthusiast]

17. Another travesty!

[Downtown Hound]

18. Life in solitary for these pigs

And if you're going to jump on me and say solitary is cruel and unusual, well, first of all it's for these own worthless pig's protection. And second of all, I don't care. Terrorist pigs like these that abuse their authority and murder people deserve to suffer, and suffer hard.

[brer cat]

20. Mentally ill inmates

need treatment not jailers.