He Couldn’t Breathe
NEWSER) – Another death in police custody has a Tennessee family scrambling for answers. Family attorney Tim Edwards tells NBC News that Troy Goode, 30, “ingested” something outside a Widespread Panic concert in Southaven, Miss., on Saturday and “got paranoid.” The Memphis man, father to a 15-month-old child, reportedly left his wife’s car at some point during the ride home, reports WREG, and was spotted “in a field running in circle,” Edwards says. Officers say they responded to a parking lot to find Goode “running from the area acting strange and not cooperative,” according to a rep, who says they believed Goode was suffering from an LSD overdose. Goode, an asthmatic, ran from officers and resisted arrest before he was taken into custody, the rep says.
A lawyer who witnessed the arrest tells the Clarion-LedgerGoode “looked to me like he was struggling or convulsing or both. He appeared to be in distress.” The lawyer’s son began filming the scene as Goode was loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher. A woman can be heard telling him to record the event “just in case he dies.” “His face was buried in the mattress of the stretcher,” Edwards says, repeating witness statements heard in the video. “There was a strap over the back of his head so he couldn’t move his head. His hands and feet were hogtied so he couldn’t move those, either.”
Wow. How entrenched is the nobility of victimhood in our culture?
Videotape it, “just in case he dies.”
How about, “Make sure he doesn’t die.”
But no, her mind is already running off towards the glories of victimhood, which she anticipated and, on some level, was hoping to see.
In a field running in circle.
Reminds me of a sick joke.
How do you stop a n******r kid from going around in circles on the floor?
Nail his other hand to the floor.
Oh, but we can be quite sure that tying his hands and feet and strapping his head face down into a mattress were utterly essential for officer safety.
You grew up crazy with no wife or kid: take the unknown powerful mind blowing drug.
You gotta a wifey & 15 month old: DO NOT take some unknown powerful mind bending
mind blowing drug.
He’da crashed in a day or two.
All they had to do was leave him alone – or get him some whiskey.
Quaalude or Seconal could have helped, too.
Man, I remember this concert, 69 or 70, Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers in DC … anyhow … come to think of it, I don’t remember it at all … just the crash … shit … it was great! I tried to hit on this biker chick and … well, I woke up in Delaware …