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Officers had already coated her face with the thick, orange substance once — and despite being a bit drunk, Swink recalls the jailers laughing outside the sterile isolation cell immediately before Sgt. Sealey’s inexplicable act.
In fact, it takes quite some time for officers to even attend to Swink — and when someone finally enters the cell to douse her eyes with a cruelly sparing amount of water, the air is so thick with pepper spray, he’s forced to vacate the room more than once.
Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer agreed in September that — even though he had yet to view the surveillance footage — pepper-spraying a restrained individual violated departmental policy.
But Plummer characterized Swink’s experience as an “isolated incident.”
“Thirty percent of my jail is people suffering from mental illnesses,” the sheriff told the Post by phone, unintentionally highlighting one of the most critical issues surrounding America’s prison- and police-industrial complex. “There are a lot of situations that the police officers should not be dealing with, but everybody wants to blame the police.”
Police — including officers working in jails and prisons — in the overwhelming majority of departments across the United States do not receive proper or sufficient training to manage encounters with people suffering a wide variety of mental illnesses; and the resulting lack of understanding means those individuals are often subjected to excessive force.
Swink has filed an excessive force lawsuit in U.S. District Court accusing the sheriff’s department of acting in a manner “that amounted to torture,” and alleging law enforcement attempted to hide wrongdoing by destroying evidence.
Swink acknowledged to the Washington Post she had, indeed, been drinking heavily at home that evening when police arrested her, and was still somewhat intoxicated when cameras recorded what happened. But she doesn’t understand what brought on the senseless attack.
“It felt like somebody just crushed up fresh peppers and made me use them as face cream,” Swink told the Post. “It took my breath away. You’re fighting for air. I remember my mouth was filling with a thick slobber, like foaming up — and that was also blocking my airway.”
As the Post described, “In the four-minute clip captured by a camera in the isolation cell, Swink can be seen struggling and coughing; she appears to pass out after her face is covered with a bright orange substance.”
As the Post pointed out, a National Institute of Justice memo says pepper spray has been used by law enforcement in the U.S. since the 1980s “as a use of force option to subdue and control dangerous, combative, or violent subjects in the field. OC [oleoresin capsicum], with its ability to temporarily incapacitate subjects, has been credited with decreasing injuries among officers and arrestees by reducing the need for more severe force options.”
Swink — with arms, legs, and body restrictively strapped to a restraint chair — obviously posed no threat to jailhouse officers, however, and video proves the motivation to spray her must have been akin to unadulterated sadism.
“You cannot find any training manual that will tell you it is allowable to pepper-spray somebody who is restrained,” Kamran Loghman, a U.S. Naval Academy professor who helped develop pepper spray for law enforcement use, told the Post. “It is used to avoid confrontation or injury, so you don’t escalate to higher levels of confrontation. Pepper spray, therefore, should not be used if the subject is expressing verbal disagreement or anger.”
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Published on Sep 14, 2016
http://branlawfirm.com/amber-swink-case/
Video shows Capt. Sealey of the Montgomery Sheriff's office pepper spraying Amber Swink in the face. Ms. Swink was restrained in a restraint chair and was unable to protect herself. She fell unconscious after inhaling a huge amount of pepper spray.
In an effort to cover up the misconduct, the Montgomery County Sheriff's office destroyed video evidence and documents. Our firm was able to obtain a backup copy of the video surveillance and has filed a complaint in Federal Court against the Montgomery County Sherriff's office on behalf of Ms. Swink.
Video shows Capt. Sealey of the Montgomery Sheriff's office pepper spraying Amber Swink in the face. Ms. Swink was restrained in a restraint chair and was unable to protect herself. She fell unconscious after inhaling a huge amount of pepper spray.
In an effort to cover up the misconduct, the Montgomery County Sheriff's office destroyed video evidence and documents. Our firm was able to obtain a backup copy of the video surveillance and has filed a complaint in Federal Court against the Montgomery County Sherriff's office on behalf of Ms. Swink.
http://filmingcops.com/video-cop-torturing-restrained-woman-mace-falls-unconscious/
COMMENTS:
Hudson Valley Wire Disgusting. There is NO reason to spray a person who is already restrained, not to mention that she was FULLY restrained. This is not just a crime by an officer, but a crime in the eyes of the international community. It's little wonder the terrorists have no respect for torture laws when we do this to to our own people every day.
Robert Morse Pepper spray is an allergen, the reason it has effect, due to allergic reaction.
It is designed to close the eyes, and restrict breathing to take the fight out of someone.
It is designed only be used in "open air" environment as it concentrates in closed air systems.
She fully passes out.
What the deputy is doing s what's called a "sternum rub" Its used to discover if a person is conscious or not.
Its applied by taking your knuckles and rubbing the sternum. It is EXTREMELY PAINFUL! And will elicit a response from all people who are conscious to any degree.
This woman SHOULD be flaying about in her restraints in sheer agony!!!
But there is absolutely no response what so ever.
That's why this officer acts panicked, he knows his partner just seriously fucked up.
That little it of water does not help at all, It only serves to reactivate the the spray, so it's like getting a double dose.
Sadly, because this is a woman, her anatomy probably caused her to urinate on herself, both when she was gasping for her last breaths, and when she lost full consciousness, where she probably lost bowl control on herself.
What happened to her is in effect, the same as drowning.
Even torture like waterboarding isn't as bad as this.
This should be tried as attempted murder and torture.
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