Inmate Who Died in Fulton County Jail Had Alarming Injuries
The family of an Atlanta inmate who died days after filing a civil rights complaint against the same jail that Donald Trump briefly found himself in last month say the 32-year-old suffered bite marks and other substantial injuries before his death.
The revelation came on the same day authorities confirmed a tenth death this year alone at the Fulton County Jail, which is already the subject of a federal civil rights investigation.
It comes three weeks after Samuel Lawrence, 34, was found unresponsive in his cell during dinner rounds. Lawrence, who was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, had been in custody for about eight months and held on a $30,000 bond for second-degree arson.
“No man wants to bury his son,” Lawrence’s father, Frank Richardson, said during a Wednesday press conference outside the jail. “You don’t want to bury your children, no one wants to bury their children.”
The Atlanta Police Department said last week that a death investigation and autopsy were ongoing. In the press conference with Lawrence’s family, Muhammad revealed that a private autopsy showed that Lawrence suffered from some alarming injuries after being “routinely attacked” while in jail.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/samuel-lawrence-inmate-who-died-in-fulton-county-jail-had-disturbing-injuries
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