Showing posts with label U.S.Veteran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S.Veteran. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Mark Bowles: 99-month sentence for epileptic crisis of dying veteran


  • Diana Beth I'll write him. The Stearns County Sheriff's beat my son in the head, and choked him while be was in his suicide smock in a restraint chair, Mary Neal. Then they took him to prison! He has another brain concussion! The prison sect him to St Cloud Hospital..smh
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  • Mary Neal What sentence did Mark Bowles receive for having an "illegal" epileptic crisis, Diana Beth? You talked to Mark and he told you about the latest brutality he endured?
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  • Diana Beth He received 33 months and another 63 for a total of 99 months in St Cloud Prison. 
    His mug shots told me what happened and again, Mary Neal
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  • Diana Beth The first time Stearns County Police beat him in the head when they arrested him out of his hospital bed on April 12, 2013
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  • Diana Beth The second time was last Thursday, April 16, 2015 when Stearns County Sheriff's Department took him to prison
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  • Diana Beth They keep beating him in the head. I'm filling criminal charges against them for both counts. My son is a vulnerable adult, Mary Neal with brain injuries and brain atrophy. They don't care.
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  • Diana Beth I haven't spoken to my son, but the prison tells me that Stearns County sheriff's did this because my son wouldn't get on his knees. He has a titanium plate in his spine and a spacer where his L-1 Vertebra was shattered. He cannot get on his knees. He wouldn't be able to get up again. They took his cane away too.
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    • Update on Mark Bowles, U.S. veteran, who was recently sentenced to prison for having an "illegal" epileptic crisis after enduring a trial before a court which reportedly  allowed Bowles to present NO information and evidence in his defense. The Mark Bowles case is discussed in numerous articles in this blog, including
    "Testimony by Diana Sprouse re Mark Bowles"
    http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2015/04/testimony-by-diana-sprouse-re-mark.html

  • We believe that the way Mark Bowles was and is being treated violates the U.S. Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), the Civil Rights Act, the Convention Against Torture, and Executive Order 13107, implementing human rights treaties.  
  • Contact the U.S. Department of Justice on Mark's behalf: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
    Contact the governor of Minnesota on Mark's behalf:
    Gov. Mark Dayton
    Telephone: 651-201-3400
    Toll Free: 800-657-3717
    Minnesota Relay: 800-627-3529
    Fax: 651-797-1850
    Twitter: @GovMarkDayton
    https://twitter.com/govmarkdayton
  • Diana Beth Thank you Mary Neal for doing this for my son. He called for the first time tonight and said they had slammed his face into the cement when he refused to get on his knees and wasn't walking fast enough for them earlier with his shackles cutting into his ankles. He had been in that restraint chair all day with the shackles breaking through the skin because they were so tight. I hope everyone contacts Governor Mark Dayton about this.
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It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after nearly 12 years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally challenged inmates and free people in the USA are common and vile.

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Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs (subsistence assistance plus mandated treatment) to stop recidivism, resumption of Medicaid insurance for certain facilities, and other needed changes. Support "AIMI vs. USA" to compensate mentally ill people and their families for health discrimination.
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Cop Kills Naked, Unarmed, Sick U.S. Veteran


NAKED, UNARMED, SICK U.S. VETERAN KILLED BY POLICE ~ DeKalb County police officer Robert Olsen fatally shot Anthony Hill, 27, on Monday, March 9, while responding to reports of a suspicious person knocking on doors and crawling on the ground naked at an apartment complex just outside Atlanta. Hill began running toward Olsen and didn't stop when ordered to, DeKalb County Chief of Police Cedric Alexander told reporters Monday. 

Hill had served more than four years in the U.S. Air Force when he was medically discharged a few years ago, his girlfriend, Bridget Anderson, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday. He was being treated by a VA doctor for bipolar disorder but stopped taking the medication a week or two ago because he didn't like the side effects, including stiffening in his jaw, she said. (by KATHLEEN FOODY and KATE BRUMBACK, of Associated Press)

As a black mentally ill man, Hill was considered extremely expendable in the United States. Either of those distinctions is potentially deadly, but it is extremely dangerous to be both. It should have been obvious to Officer Olsen that the naked man had no concealed weapons and lethal force was unwarranted. The article reports that Christopher Chestnut, Esq. said his law firm will conduct its own investigation, but argued that a naked and unarmed man posed no imminent threat to the officer or anyone else. Read the entire AP article and see more photographs at http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/28402319/calls-for-police-accountability-in-death-of-naked-man  

 Anthony Hill walks naked and harmless in the picture below, which was taken only minutes before his fatal shooting by police. (The Root)

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How can you help? Follow this blog, and share the link to it with your friends. Human and civil rights of persons with mental disabilities in the United States are sometimes treated as being nonexistent. Mentally challenged people are regularly killed by police officers whether they present a threat or not. In addition, many mentally challenged people are tortured and killed behind bars. Volunteer to work part-time for AIMI. The contact information is MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com, phone (678)531.0262 and (571)335-1747. Volunteer conferences are on the first Saturday of each month at 10am PST, except April, when we will meet on April 11.

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after eleven years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally ill inmates are common and vile.
Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill by Rep. Tim Murphy provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), and other needed changes.

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