Florida Inmate Starves to Death, Unable to Reach His Food after Officers Paralyzed Him

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.theroot.com/florida-inmate-starves-to-death-unable-to-reach-his-fo-1849668781

“My neck is broke. I’m paralyzed,” said Craig Ridley from a wheelchair. “You’re bullsh*tting. You’re just trying to get a lawsuit,” responded a corrections officer.

Ridley laid on the floor of his cell for the next five days pleading for help as officers dropped trays of food he couldn’t reach. Just hours before, officers tackled him to the ground, dislocating his neck. A report by the Miami Herald, including details from a 383-page investigation by The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has shined a light on the hidden story of Ridley’s death.

FDLE’s report found Ridley died because of his injuries and starvation. His fellow inmates and family members told investigators his death may have been a cover up.

Ridley was sentenced to a 20-year mandatory minimum on attempted murder charges in 2007. The morning of Sept. 8, 2017, correctional officers got into a struggle with Ridley, tackling him to the ground face first. According to the video footage, he was brought a wheelchair after telling the officers he couldn’t walk. He was taken to solitary confinement and officers propped up him on the cell’s toilet. He fell over, breaking his nose.

An inmate signaled to the officers that Ridley was lying in a pool of his own blood. Ridley was finally taken to see a doctor, Jean Dure, who concluded there was nothing wrong with him and conducted no neurology tests despite the lifeless appearance of Ridley’s limbs and his inability to move on his own, according to the FDLE.

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. So utterly horrifying. :(

[Celerity]

2. Shithole nations act like this.

[malaise]

9. And yet they preach to others about human rights

[Celerity]

11. indeed they do

[erronis]

25. Problem is that this is not a real "nation" with uniform laws and controls. The states

are too able to do their own injustices with impunity. And these horrors are usually what make the news.

Getting rid of states rights and implementing universal national rights would be a huge step forward. France did in with its myriad of provinces with their own idiosyncrasies and redrew the country into departments.

As far as I know, most of the abysmal human rights abuses happen in a few states - won't impugn any but Southern comes to mind.

[Celerity]

33. some of the most viscous copper shit is in Blue States, it certainly is not just the South

[Ray Bruns]

3. What a horror show

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. This system is unreformable. K&R

[Stuart G]

29. WOULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED IN ALL 50 STATES? OR MAYBE FLORIDA & A COUPLE OF OTHERS?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

30. Incarcerated people die from neglect or direct violence in every state. Not sure why you're yelling?

[Stuart G]

31. This death was covered up 5 years ago, would DeSantis have been elected "SENATOR" if this was known

about, and what he was responsible for as "Governor"?

Or would this have been a major scandal which would have derailed any political ambitions.?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

34. You think the murder of a Black convicted murderer in a Florida prison would derail a Republian's

political ambitions? Lol, lmao.

[brush]

5. Straignt racism.

[Sky Jewels]

6. The brutality and cruelty of this country never cease to amaze me.

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[marble falls]

7. Florida. It's only purpose is to divert attention from the Texas State Prison system. If this ...

... happened in an animal enclosure system, people'd been fired and arrested.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

...

[spanone]

10. MURDER.

[crickets]

24. 👆👆

[MuseRider]

12. As soon as you say, "Thats the worst thing I ever heard"

you get worse. I think of how many people who saw this happening and let it go and I just want to leave this insane, cruel, brutal country. How many people from all the jobs in a jail thought to do something about this?

I do not care what he did, this is not right. Murder (maybe) gets murder for sure from those who house him. Of the two here who is the obvious criminal?

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Well. It looks like the police walked right into that lawsuit.

[electric_blue68]

14. Hideous treatment, lethal results! Horrific!

That was like revenge (death for a murderer when not state sanctioned [I'm against it]) instead of justice (being in prison).

[2naSalit]

15. I hope something...

Really bad happens to every one of the fuckers involved in this.

[yardwork]

16. Like a horror movie - but real.

[DFW]

17. With malice of forethought

I would prosecute the perpetrators accordingly

[SarcasticSatyr]

18. ACAB

There are two kinds of cops, the bad ones and the ones that look the other way. There are no good cops .... none

[MontanaMama]

19. So many arrests need to happen here.

Including the "doctor". My gawd. This makes me sick.

[Orrex]

20. Has DeSantis issued a statement yet praising the corrections officers?

[live love laugh]

21. 💔💔💔💔💔💔

[Joinfortmill]

22. This needs a reckoning.

[Marthe48]

23. Tortured to death

another horror story

Cruel inhuman monsters killed this man.

[Stuart G]

26. Who ultimately is in charge of the prison system in Fla. That is who to blame. It ain't complicaed.

Is it? That is who to blame. Could that happen in another system? The security cops who did this knew they could
get away with it, and have .......absolutely NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL

tHIS STORY WAS KEPT SECRET FOR A PURPOSE. i WONDER IF THE ELECTION COMING UP WILL PROVIDE A
CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP? THAT IS NOT UP TO ME, I LIVE IN ANOTHER STATE.

[Stuart G]

27. .........ALSO...THIS HAPPENED 5 YEARS AGO... AT LEAST IT IS BEING REPORTED NOW, BEFORE AN ELECTION.

I GUESS DE SANTIS RUNS THE FLORIDA PRISON SYSTEM, ULTIMATELY. HE WAS GOVERNOR IN 2017, OR WAS IT
SOMEONE ELSE?

[Stuart G]

28. Rick Scott who is now Senator Rick Scott was governor in 2017. Scott is up for reelection in 2024..

not this year.... And yes, this was and is a "Cover Up."... YES, SCOTT KNEW ABOUT THIS, HE HAD TO KNOW"

And Scott believes that this will be forgotten in 2 years. & Scott doesn't give a s**t, except that this has come
out now, and De Santis might lose because of this. ......AND THIS IS NOW PUBLIC INFORMATION,

SO SCOTT WILL HAVE TO CONTEND WITH IT IN THE FUTURE.

This story is truly HORRIFIC

[Buckeye_Democrat]

32. Absolutely outrageous!