I’m a paramedic, these are absolutely fatal temperatures. “Oh WeLl He HaD a SeIzUrE dIsOrDeR”, yeah, it’s called heat stroke, you mop handle. People have seizures from heat stroke. Turns out that stuff that makes seizures more likely tends to provoke seizures, go fucking figure. “Well, hold on, they had medical conditions”, yeah, medical conditions make people more vulnerable to heat exposure, which means that when you let their core temperatures get up to the level of causing a heat stroke, they’re going to fucking die.
I really hope the next of kin can try to get an independent examiner to review their case and sue these jackasses to the point where they can’t even keep their dog’s shit, because this is absolutely 100% gross negligence, manslaughter, and downright immoral, unethical behavior.
It’s not manslaughter. The Depraved Indifference (also called Depraved-Heart) rule elevates it to murder.
When someone actively chooses to act in a way that is so dangerous that death is a likely outcome, the depraved indifference to human life is essentially treated as intent to kill. The classic example would be choosing not to recall a tainted batch of medicine in order to maintain profits.
This would certainly qualify for the rule.
It’s how they got Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. They couldn’t prove that he planned to kill him, but they were able to show that he intentionally acted in a way that was potentially lethal and was so indifferent to the consequences that it elevated it past an accident to an intentional assault resulting in death (murder).
If George Floyd had had a heart attack from the stress of being arrested and Chauvin had tried to provide medical aid and filed, it would have been a tragic accident. Instead he intentionally retrained him in a known dangerous manner and refused to provide or allow for medical care when it was clear that Floyd was suffering a medical emergency. That’s murder.
As a Texan, I can say there’s very little we take more seriously than working air conditioning.
No. It was all of his proteins denaturing that killed him, the heat was merely a part of his totally not cruel and unusual punishment.
It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Good thing there’s nothing in the Constitution about no cruel and unusual punishment. This is fine.
The dying is what killed him.
Indeed, ones responsible for keeping him in that cell are the ones who murdered him by not providing care nor suitable living conditions.
My average fellow citizen: ThEy PrObAbLy DeSeRvEd It!
We’re such petty vindictive assholes, it kills me…
Most conservatives I know: “weeeeell I guess you should have thought of that before you committed crimes!”
