Saturday, November 24, 2012

Double Murder/Suicide in CA Senior Home

Three people died recently in double murder/suicide in California at the Golden West Tower, a senior home. Residents and the staff had complained about the elderly shooter, saying that Chuck acted strange, but no one acted on their complaints. People who suffer from mental diseases are much more likely to be harmed than to do harm, but ignoring mental illness endangers the entire community. Tragedies often happen when mental illness goes untreated. Sometimes, soldiers on the battlefield experience a mental meltdown like Sgt. John Russell did in May 2009. Should signs of PTSD be ignored and soldiers remain armed in combat zones, endangering our troops? Sgt. Russell shot five of his fellow servicemembers in Baghdad and was charged with murder. Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 33 people, including himself, had a history of mental illness. But nothing was done when Cho's college professor warned about Cho's apparent mental state. America's list of avoidable disasters is lengthy. People die because of the "danger to self and other" rule that usually bars enforced psychiatric treatment in the absence of a dripping knife or smoking gun. See an excerpt from the news report about the avoidable tragedy at Golden West Tower below.

 Dog Justice for the Mentally Ill and Their Communities

Three Dead in Murder/Suicide in California Senior Center (AP) -- Three people died Tuesday in what appears to be a double murder-suicide at a senior citizens' high-rise south of Los Angeles, police said.A man in his 80s apparently shot two women shortly after noon before turning the gun on himself. Police are still investigating the man's motive, but residents and staff from the senior center told NBC4 that the man had been behaving erratically, and many of them were seeking to have him kicked out of the complex.

"People knew that he was a little bit off," Golden Tower employee Alex Galindo told the TV station. "People were warned, but nobody did anything, so I know there's going to be blood on a lot of people's hands. That's all I can say at this point."


Police help residents return to Golden West Tower after being evacuated for safety
 
In the video at the link below, Chuck was described as being an "unstable, violent, angry man who was feared by residents and staff members alike." More information about the senior center shootings is at the second link. See also links below that carry news about the Virginia Tech Massacre and about Sgt. Russell's mental meltdown in Iraq during his third consecutive tour of duty.

Golden West Tower Shooting: Three Dead In Murder-Suicide At California Senior Center [Video]

Three Dead in Murder/Suicide in California Senior Center
http://news.yahoo.com/3-dead-murder-suicide-calif-senior-center-003004522.html

"Virginia Tech Massacre"
http://www.virginiatechmassacre.com/

Save Sgt. Russell Petition Launched by AIMI
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/save-sgt-russel-petition-launched-aimi

Fairness for acute mental patients means making timely treatment available. However, it is unwise to rely on people to make rational health decisions while experiencing psychiatric crises. A condition called Anosognosia makes it impossible for acute mental patients to recognize their own illness and seek or willingly accept treatment. When in crisis, family members or authorities must be allowed to help keep sick people and communities safe by authorizing involuntary commitment. One of the main reasons why acute mental patients revolve in and out of jails and prisons is because Anosognosia makes patients feel they do not need to stay on their psychiatric medications and keep appointments with their health care providers once they are freed from incarceration or hospitalization. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice certified assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs, which combine mandated psychiatric treatment and subsistence assistance. Learn more about AOT programs and Anosognosia at the website for Treatment Advocacy Center http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/ . Treatment for mental illness must stop being withheld until after crimes. If people in crisis do commit crimes because their symptoms were ignored, they do not deserve to be imprisoned for behavior that arose out of their disability. Society can avoid tragedies like the three deaths at Golden West Tower by (1) making it easier to commit people in crisis to inpatient hospitals for evaluation and treatment, and (2) using mandatory AOT programs to maintain mental health for acute patients upon release from hospitals and prisons or jails.

Most stories in DogJustice blog are about brutality against acute mental patients. Please see the blog's index for titles. Thanks for your interest in creating safe environments for America's most vulnerable citizens and for communities at large.

Golden West Tower, scene of double murder/suicide - an avoidable tragedy

Sgt. John Russell

Cho Seung-Hui

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Mentally Ill Man Freed after 30 years Wrongful Conviction

Police hid evidence to wrongfully convict a mentally ill black man for murder. George Allen was freed after 30 years in a Missouri prison. Some police officers and prosecutors are content to close cases by lying on minorities and mentally ill Americans. It is relatively easy to extract false confessions from children and mentally ill people. See the VIDEO at this link http://goo.gl/icdfG   

Dog Justice for the Mentally Ill
Dogs have more advocates and better protection under the law than
mentally challenged Americans.

George Allen was incarcerated 30 years for a rape and murder, but thanks to hard work by the Innocence Project, he is a free man today. The prosecutors sought death in Allen's case, but a juror had to leave jury duty on an emergency. Otherwise, Allen might be DEAD  http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/old-st-louis-police-cases-need-scrutiny-lawyers-for-released/article_c6985f47-74df-521c-9c33-dc29bb1d2f9c.html



There should be two links above this line. Censorship is applied to stories of wrongful convictions, especially with the factors that such as George Allen faced: (1) deliberate falsification by police and prosecutors; (2) wrongful death penalty; (3) racism; and (4) a mentally or physically challenged victim.

After Allen was freed, he had lunch with his mother, Lonzetta Taylor (pictured below). More cases may be examined that were investigated by the same detective who withheld information to win Allen's wrongful conviction.
  
Repeat of Paragraph 1 -- Police hid evidence to wrongfully convict a mentally ill black man for murder. George Allen was freed after 30 years in a Missouri prison. Some police officers and prosecutors are content to close cases by lying on minorities and mentally ill Americans. It is relatively easy to extract false confessions from children and mentally ill people. See the VIDEO at this link http://goo.gl/icdfG

 
 


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Mitrice Richardson: Another Police Cover-up?

MITRICE RICHARDSON - a beautiful 24-year-old college graduate disappeared after her release from jail custody near Los Angeles, California in 2009. Who can prove she was ever really released? Mitrice's story was on "Disappeared" on Mon. Nov. 20, 2012, at 10:00 p.m. ET on ID. Larry Neal's family was told he was not incarcerated in Memphis/Shelby County Jail for 18 days. His social worker and family were continuously told lies: "Larry Neal is not in custody." The morning Larry died, August 1, 2003, police finally admitted to Larry's family that he had been in jail during his entire time "missing." Nine years after Larry Neal's secret jail death, the government REFUSES to say how they killed Larry Neal, but his sister is stalked and censored to prevent disclosure about his murder under secret arrest. Timothy "Bulldog" Allen disappeared after talking with police on a bridge in St. Joseph, Michigan in November 2011. Police refused to drag the lake when Allen's family and community searched for him, but his body surfaced in the lake a month later. What is happening to black people who experience mental health problems? Mitrice Richardson's bones were found in the desert a year after her "disappearnce." Police claim they released her on foot at 1:30 a.m., a few hours after her arrest, but is that the truth? Mitrice Richardson's disappearance in or after police custody is far from being an isolated incident. See "Patrick Toney - Death in Custody After Mental Breakdown" http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/patrick-toney-death-in-custody-after.html Are mentally ill black people being treated as expendable like the 300,000 mentally challenged people who were Nazi Germany's first Holocaust victims?

Hear a recording at this link of Mitrice Richardson's mother asking police not to release her daughter until morning when she could come and get her (Huffington Post): "WOMAN KILLED AFTER RELEASE FROM POLICE CUSTODY" http://goo.gl/IXAE0 . Mitrice Richardson's mother is heard telling police that Mitrice did not have her car and should not be released in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar area. Police claimed that is exactly what they did, but did they really? The censorship force that was hired to contain my advocacy for justice for America's mentally ill people fought me about publishing news about Mitrice Richardson's disappearance. They refused to let her photographs show on the link to the petition for a federal investigation that was launched after her "disappearance." Cyber stalkers prevented my posting news about Mitrice Richardson at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) site at Care2 several times, but I was persistent and finally got the news to post. Why did [government?] cyberstalkers want to interfere with my posting news about Mitrice and her missing poster? I captured much of the interference I encountered reporting Mitrice's disappearance on videotape.

Mitrice Richardson's post kept disappearing from AIMI like this video that proves cyberstalkers prevented my right to advocate for Medicaid to be resumed as insurance for mentally ill inpatients H.R.619 Advocacy Censored at AIMI   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTnBUYoJtk4  At Care2, Mary Neal's video captured censorship regarding H.R.619 - the congressional bill introduced by Rep. Eddie Johnson in Jan. 2009 to resume Medicaid for mentally ill Americans to have hospital insurance. Medicaid was removed as a funding source for mental hospitalization decades ago, and it led to 1.25 million sick people being incarcerated today. H.R.619 has zero news coverage despite its relevance to milions, and Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill members are censored when we post info about the bill online. I am usually censored no matter what human rights issue I write about at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) at http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI  - It often takes many tries before posting news, especially advocacy for H.R.619 and anti-death penalty reports.

Mitrice Richardson's parents received a $900,000 settlement after suing police for negligence. Was it really negligence or wrongful death? Did police murder Mitrice Richardson? Listen to the tape, and make your own decision http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/disappeared-killed-after-police-custody-video_n_2163838.html

See four more articles about Mitrice Richardson by Mary Neal:
WHAT HAPPENED TO MITRICE RICHARDSON
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-happened-to-mitrice-richardson.html

WRONGFUL DEATH OF MITRICE RICHARDSON
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/mitrice-richardson-found-dead.html

DISCUSSION ON MITRICE RICHARDSON - MISSING THEN DEAD - AT CARE2
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=17280&pst=884068

MARY NEAL'S CARE2 SHAREBOOK - WHAT HAPPENED TO MITRICE RICHARDSON?
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/sharebook/513396753&tag=for?share_type=&tag=change.orgpetition&pid=513396753  Notice that cyberstalkers surreptitiously removed the link to the petition for a federal investigation from this article


(top to bottom - Mitrice Richardson, Larry Neal, Timothy "Bulldog" Allen)


Repeat of paragraph 1 - MITRICE RICHARDSON - a beautiful 24-year-old college graduate disappeared after her release from jail custody near Los Angeles, California in 2009. Who can prove she was ever really released? Mitrice's story was on "Disappeared" on Mon. Nov. 20, 2012, at 10:00 p.m. ET on ID. Larry Neal's family was told he was not incarcerated in Memphis/Shelby County Jail for 18 days. His social worker and family were continuously told lies: "Larry Neal is not in custody." The morning Larry died, August 1, 2003, police finally admitted to Larry's family that he had been in jail during his entire time "missing." Nine years after Larry Neal's secret jail death, the government REFUSES to say how they killed Larry Neal, but his sister is stalked and censored to prevent disclosure about his murder under secret arrest. Timothy "Bulldog" Allen disappeared after talking with police on a bridge in St. Joseph, Michigan in November 2011. Police refused to drag the lake when Allen's family and community searched for him, but his body surfaced in the lake a month later. What is happening to black people who experience mental health problems? Mitrice Richardson's bones were found in the desert a year after her "disappearnce." Police claim they released her on foot at 1:30 a.m., a few hours after her arrest, but is that the truth? Mitrice Richardson's disappearance in or after police custody is far from being an isolated incident. See "Patrick Toney - Death in Custody After Mental Breakdown" http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/patrick-toney-death-in-custody-after.html Are mentally ill black people being treated as expendable like the 300,000 mentally challenged people who were Nazi Germany's first Holocaust victims?

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Officer Sentenced: Beat Mentally Ill Man to Death

All he wanted was a Snickers bar. Instead, the mentally ill janitor (pictured) was beaten to death by police. Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr., 65, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Van Sickle to four years and three months for his role in the 2006 death of Otto Zehm, a mentally disabled janitor who was killed after being erroneously suspected of stealing money from an ATM.


Read more at the article entitled "Otto Zehm Beating: Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. Sentenced in the Beating Death of a Man With Mental Disabilities," by Huffington Post, dated November 16, 2012.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/otto-zehm-beating-death-karl-thompson-mental-disabilities_n_2143920.html

It is seldom that a week goes by without another beating or shooting death by police officers who kill mentally ill Americans. The mentally ill need DOG JUSTICE. Thank you for your interest in police brutality cases involving America's most vulnerable citizens. Thank you for giving ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL.







George Allen: Wrongly Convicted Mentally Ill Inmate in Missouri

Police hid evidence to wrongfully convict a mentally ill black man for murder. George Allen was freed after 30 years in a Missouri prison. Police withheld evidence that indicated Allen's innocence, and the prosecutor went for the death penalty. Allen might have been killed if a juror had not had an emergency and could not finish the trial. Some police officers and prosecutors are content to close cases by lying on minorities and mentally ill Americans. It is relatively easy to extract false confessions from children the mentally ill. See the entire article at this link http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2012/11/mentally-ill-man-freed-after-30-years.html

George Allen was sentenced to the "other death row" - life in prison. But thanks to hard work by the Innocence Project, he is a free man today. If a juror had not had an emergency, Allen would probably have been executed for a crime he did not do http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/old-st-louis-police-cases-need-scrutiny-lawyers-for-released/article_c6985f47-74df-521c-9c33-dc29bb1d2f9c.html

Thank you, Innocence Project and supporters! Ten ways you can help are listed at the Innocence Project website http://www.innocenceproject.org/fix/What-can-I-do.php

Free the innocent.

Friday, November 16, 2012

SF Mental Health Board: No Tasers for SFPD

On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, The San Francisco Mental Health Board passed a resolution urging the San Francisco Police Commission and San Francisco Police Department to oppose the adoption of electroshock weapons, or Tasers, for SFPD Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) officers. See the video on YouTube at this link http://youtu.be/5br06cJ3QBw In public comment, 99-1/2 percent strongly opposed Tasers in cops hands. Mesha Irizarry, of Idriss Stelly Foundation, wrote the proposal with final edits by MHB secretary, David Elliot Lewis.



Mesha Irizarry's only child, Idriss Stelly, an college honor student, was killed in a hail of 46 bullets during a mental health crisis in 2002. He suffered from bipolar disorder.

People on the video make reference to the Memphis Crisis Intervention Program. My schizophrenic brother, Larry Neal, was secretly arrested for 18 days and murdered in Memphis, Tennessee in 2003, but care is given to censor the story about Larry Neal's murder by his government. Therefore, the San Francisco Mental Health Board may not know about the many police shootings and jail deaths that happen in Memphis to mentally ill people. The latest such killing happened in summer 2012 to Christian Freeman, a 19-year-old schizophrenic youth, whose story is included in an article in this blog called "Don't Become 'Nazi America.'" See an excerpt below:


MPD continues to kill the mentally ill. The most recent of nine people killed by Memphis police so far in 2012 was Christian Freeman, 19, a paranoid schizophrenic. He was shot to death on June 12 about 1:40a.m. behind FedEx Forum near Fourth and Beale. Police claim Freeman charged at two officers with a knife and they shot him to death. That was Freeman's second encounter with police. He spent a month in a mental health ward after allegedly yelling and making obscene gestures at police officers in April 2012. Freeman's uncle in Texas, Todd Jones, said police should have tried to incapacitate and restrain Freeman rather than shooting him. Memphis Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is used as a model for intervention services regarding arrests of mentally ill people, but Memphis police do not use it. If his mother tries to sue the police department, will she become a gangstalking target, too? See the article at the "MEMPHIS POLICE BODY COUNT" link
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/memphis-police-body-count.html
My letters to the Memphis CIT were not answered, so I put it on public view at this link http://www.nowpublic.com/health/letter-memphis-cit-mary-neal
Can the Memphis CIT Explain the Wrongful Death of Larry Neal?
Date: 3/24/2008 7:26:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: mneal000@... (Mary Neal)
To: cit@..., rdupont@...
CC: mfitzpatrick@..., iolmisha@... (mentor)

Randolph T. Dupont, PhD

University of Memphis
School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Memphis, TN 38152-3330

Re: Secret Arrest and Wrongful Death of Larry Neal and Subsequent Cover-up


I have read with interest how police departments all over the country are modeling their police departments after the Memphis CIT model. I suppose it may be partly to protect this image that my family is the only American family in the 21st Century to have a member secretly arrested and returned to his family as a corpse with no explanation, apology, excuse, arrest records, inquest, or investigation. At least, I certainly hope this is an uncommon tragedy and denial of due process of law.


See
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal,

The Memphis CIT has never explained how Larry Neal, a life-long mentally ill heart patient, could be secretly arrested in mid-July 2003, incarcerated for 18 days while his family and social worker looked for him as a missing person while Shelby County Jail repeatedly and falsely denied having him incarcerated, until he died of a fatal heart attack.


The Memphis CIT has never explained why The (Johnny) Cochran Firm, which was managed by Julian Bolton, Esq., 20+year Shelby County Commissioner and past Chairman, would then contract with my family to act as our wrongful death attorneys against Shelby County Jail, withholding from my family information about Bolton's position with our intended defendant, the jail where Larry died.


The Memphis CIT has never explained why Shelby County Jail neglected to send the Department of Justice an inmate fatality report regarding Larry Neal's death, when the jail was already under suit by the USA for previous violations of inmates' civil rights, and was required to send such inmate fatality reports under the terms of its Agreement with the USA.


Larry's family believes that his death was actually a euthanasia followed by an elaborate cover-up between The Cochran Firm and others to keep his wrongful death case out of court. Interested parties have also managed to keep his death and his family's quest for justice out of mainstream media, which likely would have led to investigation and closure for his family.


For years, I have written to

Shelby County Government officials,
the U.S. Justice Department,
Tennessee representatives,
including the governor,
United States Senators and Congressmen,
mental health organizations,
civil rights organizations,
and civic leaders about Larry's death,
the denial of any investigation and accountability.

No one has come forward with any investigation or reports to date -- over four years after Larry's death. At this point, the shroud of secrecy seems impenetrable to the point that Larry's family would be skeptical of any reports that ensued from an investigation.


We have sued The Cochran Firm twice to recover damages for tricking my family while under contract as Larry's wrongful death attorneys (secret conflict of interest, fraud, malpractice),
and we are hopeful of getting answers during discovery of our present suit in USDC, Northern District of Gerogia. On our first attempt to sue The Cochran Firm, we served the suit to the firm's advertised Atlanta office, the law office that conducted our initial client intake interview the day Larry died.

Strangely, this law office which was widely advertised as The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office on television, MARTA, Internet, Bell phone books, etc., had our suit dismissed in May 2006 by claiming it is no part of The Cochran Firm. Larry's family certainly hopes that nothing so fantastic will happen in our pending USDC case against this law firm.


CIT is a good idea, and I hope it benefits mentally ill citizens in the Memphis area and around the country. However, when there is a failure in the system, as evidenced by Larry Neal's secret incarceration and wrongful death, that failure should not be covered up at the expense of justice.

 

Sincerely
/s/
Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill 


My comment at YouTube that was prevented at the video about the SF Board of Mental Health's resolution:

Why does the video on SF Board of Mental Health praise Memphis Crisis Intervention (CIT) program? Don't they know about the continuous police shootings of mentally ill people in Memphis and the murder of Larry Neal while under 18 days of secret arrest? See http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2012/11/sf-mental-health-board-no-tasers-for.html . That is why it is important to expose police violence on PressTV, Lawless America, and my book Cochran Firm Fraud. Hiding deaths reduces security. 

DOG JUSTICE IS NEEDED FOR
AMERICA'S MENTALLY ILL CITIZENS

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Terrorism to Stop Lawless America Filming Mary Neal

Bill Windsor, they killed another mentally ill inmate like they murdered my brother, Larry Neal, after 18 days of secret arrest in Memphis Shelby County Jail. This one was in Tulsa, and he died of untreated blunt force trauma to the head and/or starvation and dehydration. Incarcerating the mentally ill for prison profits is the most corrupt practice in America's penal system, and they kill some without accountability OFTEN. Former Vice President Chaney and Attorney Gen Gonzales were indicted for ignoring prison abuse in 2008 in Willacy County, Texas. They did not go to trial, but the D.A. who brought the indictment did. (Google Juan Guerra, now a Texas defense attorney).
 

Paragraph 2 of 11  -- I know it is frightening to expose officials in the highest echelons of government who may be misusing their positions to make money from corrupt police departments and prisons by withholding investigations after murders and abuses, but I hope Lawless America will carry the story of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill for the sake of 1.25 million mentally ill inmates who should be in hospitals or community care programs, depending on their offenses and suitability to live outside a controlled environment. Yes, they send stalkers to harass you and send death threats via cyberterror. But no story about corruption in America is complete without telling about the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal and his family's gangstalking and terrorism after asking for accountability and lawsuit against The Cochran Firm frauds. Americans deserve a consumer report regarding the law firm that operates in Johnnie Cochran's name and defrauds its own clients to help police and jails escape accountability after murders of black people. When I told mainstream media companies The Cochran Firm had Judge Wendy Shoob in Georgia Superior Court to declare falsely that there is no Cochran Firm office in the state of Georgia, the media companies said, "So what?" They will never warn people about this CoIntelPro operation.

Paragraph 3 of 11 -- I write this because of your announcement, "LAWLESS AMERICA MOVIE IS CHANGING ITS SCHEDULE FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY REASONS" http://goo.gl/RRKoE . I had hoped my nightmare of being stalked and censored to contain my advocacy would end on November 22, when I was to be interviewed for "Lawless America - The Movie." Now they have you going into hiding for security. Another documentary I was interviewed in regarding the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584tgKJwobY was recorded by PressTV in June 2012, but it has not yet been released. See the short promo film on systemic racism that continually victimizes Africans in America, especially those who have other issues like poverty or mental illness. The mentally ill comprise 60% of those inmates who awakened in solitary confinement today, and 80% of inmates who are tortured in 9 foot x 6 foot solitary cells are blacks. What is particularly tragic is that America has between 5,000 and 10,000 wrongful convictions every year, according to a recent study. Inmates earn prison investors the same fee, whether innocent or guilty.

Paragraph 4 of 11 -- No movie about injustice is complete without telling about mental hospitals being closed across America to leave sick people homeless and later arrest them for crimes from vagrancy to murders in order to get the nation's first generation of private prisons started. They are kept full today by victimizing other mental patients over the next 40 years. Municipalities contract with private prisons to maintain prisons at a certain occupancy level, and incarcerating the mentally ill in America is the main way this contractual obligation is met.

Paragraph 5 of 11 -- I spoke with a distraught mother last night - Ms. Goolsby. She has two sons, both are mentally ill inmates who were incarcerated as teens. Police told her that some thugs took advantage of her oldest son's mental illness and used him as a lookout during a robbery. He is in prison now being raped and beaten by other inmates when he should have been sent to a hospital. Her youngest son was arrested for masturbation. He was visiting his dad, who Ms. Goolsby said has always been ashamed of his sick son and grew tired of paying child support for him. Her ex had another son who was younger than the mentally ill teen. The youngster walked into a room where Ms. Goolsby's son was masturbating and watching a sex tape his dad had left in the VCR. The dad pressed charges, saying his mentally ill son exposed himself to his younger child. Both of Ms. Goolsby's sons are in Georgia prisons. Like many mentally ill inmates, they face abuse from inmates and guards, and their sentences may be lengthened for failure to follow prison rules because they are sick and not always in control of their actions (especially when not medicated) and are slow to understand instructions.  

Paragraph 6 of 11 -- The oldest son should have been released in 2012, but now the prison told Ms. Goolsby he has to stay until June 2013. In June, they may say another year - and another. One mentally ill youth in Los Angeles who was arrested after he threw a chair through his mom's window may get life in prison because he threatened the judge and a prison guard with light rays from Mars. They called it a "terrorist threat." This is how prison investors make money off the mentally ill. Even if they are arrested for misdemeanors, they may end up in prison for life.  

Paragraph 7 of 11 -- My testimony is about Larry Neal's murder under secret arrest and the elaborate government cover-up that has lasted nine years by lawyer fraud, censorship, cyberterror, gangstalking, cooperation from the sold-out media companies, and payoffs to public officials who joined the conspiracy to deny my family's civil rights and became accessories to the murder after the fact. But it is also about all the mentally ill people who are wrongly victimized in and by the injustice system - Kelly Thomas, who was murdered by six Fullerton, California police officers who beat the homeless mentally ill man to death before witnesses; Tim Souders, who was died of dehydration on a Michigan jail's restraint table where he was left for four days without food or water; Sean LeVert, the entertainer who was killed in a restraint chair while arrested for child support, and many others.

Paragraph 8 of 11 -- Today George Allen, a mentally ill inmate from Missouri's death row, will be released from prison, where he has languished for 30 years for a crime that the DNA test he was finally allowed to take proved he did not do. Thank God for the Innocence Project and all of its financial supporters. The Missouri District Attorney challenged Allen's right to go free even after proving actual innocence. That shows how corrupt our justice system is more than anything - the fact that courts are under no obligation to consider post conviction evidence to stop executions or release inmates who lose their youth behind bars working as prison slaves for crimes they did not do. It is wrong for the inmates, their families and communities, and wrong for taxpayers to pay to execute or rehabilitate innocent people. I am an abolitionist who has big problems communicating with the world about wrongful executions. Every execution that happens without irrefutable proof of guilt is wrong, and no state should ignore the law and execute mentally ill people and those with low I.Q. scores, but they do. Consider the case of poor Andre Thomas who is literally eating his own body parts on Texas death row. So far, the poor mentally ill man ate both his eyes.  

Paragraph 9 of 11 -- Three minutes on "Lawless America - The Movie" will not be enough time to tell about the denial of civil and human rights that my family endured after Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder or adequately explain the corruption that victimizes mentally ill Americans and their families, but I would like to try. Most Americans are decent, compassionate people. Therefore, testifying about these crimes may do more than merely expose corruption in government and the judiciary, which is the stated goal for "Lawless America - The Movie." I believe that once the public realizes these crimes against humanity are happening in their names and with their tax dollars, many innocent lives will be saved - maybe my own.

Paragraph 10 of 11 -- I am a non-violent Christian who would never hurt anyone. But I am not above taking a basket of pine cones from my backyard and throwing them at the windows of the court-declared "nonexistent" Cochran Firm law office in downtown Atlanta if it will end my terrorism and censorship - even if cops Taser and arrest me like they threatened to do in 2010 for exposing my brother's lynching and The Cochran Firm fraud against black families after police kill their mentally disabled or elderly relatives. They won't let me before a jury in civil court, but throwing pine cones should get me before one in criminal court. I am just that sick of the FEMA camp they have made of my home - taking over my computers, telephones, and sending stalkers to follow me to monitor and control computers I access at Kinkos or the public library. I cannot let it continue. I say with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" I will have someone to follow me while I enter a building with a metal detector and trail me to the Cochran Firm building so they cannot lie and say I threw something else. Still, the Taser might kill me if Atlanta police do what they threaten, because I have a heart murmur. If they kill me, publish my work, and continue to give ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL. Family, publish my book manuscripts right away, and don't worry about me. Jesus is my Lord.

Paragraph 11 of 11(a) through 11(d) -- See articles at the four(4) reference links below:

(a) MENTALLY ILL MAN DIES INJURED AND ALONE IN A JAIL CELL WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER
http://solitarywatch.com/2012/11/05/mentally-ill-man-dies-injured-and-alone-in-a-tulsa-jail-cell/

(b) TEXAS GRAND JURY INDICTS VP CHANEY AND AG GONZALES

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/19/us-usa-texas-cheney-indictment-idUSTRE4AI11B20081119\


Whatever deal the U.S. Attorney General's office may have made with Shelby County Jail to help county officials cover-up Larry Neal's murder in custody is being continued by Eric Holder, apparently. The United States Department of Justice refuses to answer our Freedom of Information Act request about Larry Neal's police kidnapping and murder even nine years after his death, but the Justice Department allows or does terrorism against his family for asking for accountability.

(c) HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, COCHRAN FIRM FRAUDS
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/happy-anniversary-cochran-firm-frauds.html
Lawyer fraud against its own clients to save government entities and certain large corporations is The Cochran Firm's specialty

(d) HELP A FAMILY WITH MENTALLY ILL INMATES VISIT FOR CHRISTMAS
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-help-family-with-mentally-ill.html

This article tells about the Goolsby family, who are separated again this Holiday Season because two sons are imprisoned for having an "illegal" health condition - mental illness. Please pray for and help get them get out of prison, where they are being raped and beaten by inmates, into mental hospitals, if not into community care programs.

Blessings from Mary Neal, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Repeat of paragraphs 1 and 2 --

Bill Windsor, they killed another mentally ill inmate like they murdered my brother, Larry Neal, after 18 days of secret arrest in Memphis Shelby County Jail. This one was in Tulsa, and he died of untreated blunt force trauma to the head and/or starvation and dehydration. Incarcerating the mentally ill for prison profits is the most corrupt practice in America's penal system, and they kill some without accountability OFTEN. Former Vice President Chaney and Attorney Gen Gonzales were indicted for ignoring prison abuse in 2008 in Willacy County, Texas. They did not go to trial, but the D.A. who brought the indictment did. (Google Juan Guerra, now a Texas defense attorney).
 

Paragraph 2 of 11  -- I know it is frightening to expose officials in the highest echelons of government who may be misusing their positions to make money from corrupt police departments and prisons by withholding investigations after murders and abuses, but I hope Lawless America will carry the story of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill for the sake of 1.25 million mentally ill inmates who should be in hospitals or community care programs, depending on their offenses and suitability to live outside a controlled environment. Yes, they send stalkers to harass you and send death threats via cyberterror. But no story about corruption in America is complete without telling about the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal and his family's gangstalking and terrorism after asking for accountability and lawsuit against The Cochran Firm frauds. Americans deserve a consumer report regarding the law firm that operates in Johnnie Cochran's name and defrauds its own clients to help police and jails escape accountability after murders of black people. When I told mainstream media companies The Cochran Firm had Judge Wendy Shoob in Georgia Superior Court to declare falsely that there is no Cochran Firm office in the state of Georgia, the media companies said, "So what?" They will never warn people about this CoIntelPro operation.

Friday, November 9, 2012

Starving Mental Patients in U.S. Jails

Elliott Williams, 37, a mentally ill black man, died in a Tulsa, Oklahoma jail cell where he was kept for days without food or water. He was dead within five days of his incarceration.
Dog Justice Is Needed for America's Mentally Ill Citizens

In a horrific story out of Oklahoma, lawyers representing the estate of a prisoner who was found dead in the Tulsa Jail have sued the local sheriff’s office and the jail’s private health care provider. In a motion just filed in federal court, attorneys have asked a judge to release a video made of the man’s final two days, during which he allegedly languished in an isolation cell without food, water, or medical attention.

Elliott Earl Williams, 37, was pronounced dead in his cell at 11:21 a.m. Oct. 27, 2011, after allegedly going days without food and water.

According to the motion seeking release of the video and related documents, Williams–who had exhibited signs of mental illness–tried to hurt himself and ran into a steel door head-first after being placed in a booking cell upon arrival at the jail October 22.  Read more about Williams' murder at this link http://solitarywatch.com/2012/11/05/mentally-ill-man-dies-injured-and-alone-in-a-tulsa-jail-cell/


This writer does not know if Williams died of an untreated head injury caused by running into a steel door or by dehydration and starvation. Another mentally ill man was arrested in October 2011 and emerged from incarceration in a body bag. Carlos Umana, a schizophrenic youth, starved to death after four months in a Utah jail. See the excerpt below from an article I published in my MaryLovesJustice blog about his demise:

The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that a young prisoner who apparently suffered from serious mental illness died of starvation and dehydration after spending four months in the Salt Lake County Jail, much of them in solitary confinement. Carlos Umana, 20, weighed at 180 pounds when he entered the jail in October 2011; when he died on February 27, 2012 he weighed just 77 pounds (see photographs below). Tests showed that none of his prescribed psychiatric drugs were in his system at the time of his death.

Carlos Umana before arrest


Carlos Umana's emaciated corpse
after starvation in jail

As a teenager, Umana was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. According to the Tribune, his mother, Tammy Martinez, said that Umana had stopped taking his medication in the fall. Then he started hearing voices and thinking people were poisoning him. "Umana was so concerned about people poisoning him," she said, "that he started preparing all his own food." (Continue reading about Carlos at "Mass Incarceration and Murders of America's Mental Patients - Utah Story" http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2011/06/mass-incarceration-and-murders-of.html  )

My mentally ill brother, Larry Neal, died after 18 days of secret arrest in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003 http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com . Our family does not know if Larry was starved to death, Tasered, brutalized, or killed in a restraint chair, because his death is a government cover-up, and my family is denied any release of records. Since that time, I have endeavored to alert the world as to how mentally ill people and their families are mistreated. Homelessness, prison, and death must cease to be our response to mental illness, a common, treatable health condition. Please see more stories in this blog and also visit Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill at http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi . America presently has 1.25 million mentally ill people incarcerated. I would especially appreciate it if someone would check on and please help Rodriguez Nelson, who was given a 56-year sentence for having a fight with his girlfriend. http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2012/03/rodriguez-nelson-56-yr-sentence-for.html

Williams, Umana, and Larry all had documented mental health issues, but not every person who experiences a mental health crisis does. Some people snap under the strain of economic hardships and other life-changing stresses. Unfortunately, many people who break under pressure do not live through a lunacy arrest. Police should apprehend mentally challenged persons without resorting to deadly force. Consider the case of Dejuan Eaton. Fremont police shot Eaton as he allegedly chased his wife with a knife from their apartment while he was naked on November 4. See an excerpt of a news article about his death:

DEJUAN EATON, 37, had just received the news that his 18-year-old brother had accidentally shot himself in the head while handling a loaded firearm earlier that evening, according to his father, Alonzo Eaton. It was at that time that Dejuan Eaton, described as a loving, family man, was pushed to his limit.

"He had just lost his grandfather last Thursday, then to hear about his brother, it blew him over the edge," Alonzo Eaton said Tuesday. "I lost two sons within an hour of each other." (Read more at this link http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_21940151/fremont-authorities-identify-naked-san-jose-man-shot )
 
Our condolences to the families of Umana and Williams. Both these deaths resulted in lawsuits that burden taxpayers for brutal treatment under the color of law. Luckily, the families found attorneys who filed their lawsuits, unlike the Neal family. We contracted with The Cochran Firm, which pretended to act as our wrongful death attorneys but held Larry's wrongful death case secretly inactive while the Tennessee statute of limitations passed in order to help the jail escape accountability. Google "Cochran Firm Fraud." Condolences for Alonzo Eaton and his family, also.