No Charges Prison For Guards Who Allegedly Boiled Schizophrenic Black Man to Death

[Dill]

(03-20-2017, 06:05 PM)Benton Wrote: LeonardLeap's noting of the differences pretty well covers the "more believable" part. There's a lot of editorializing in the first one, some interpretations, some omitted information. My wife was an RN in a psychiatric unit. From her experiences, I find it more believable a mental patient would cover himself or his stuff in feces and he was forced to clean himself up, as opposed to some guards didn't like a black guy so they tortured him.

It's still hard to tell exactly what happened.  But I don't see a path from "covered with feces and refused to wash" to "scalded to death" which does not involve serious negligence at the least. 

I don't automatically distrust a DA's version in such cases either.