The woman in charge of this jail is notoriously a hardcore Trump-hater...this is infuriating.
Capitol riot defendant "viciously and savagely" beaten by guard in Washington, D.C. jail, lawyer says
A Capitol riot defendant was "viciously and savagely" beaten by a guard in a Washington, D.C. jail and may lose sight in one eye because of his injuries, one of his lawyers told the CBS affiliate in the city, WUSA-TV. Ryan Samsel is accused of pushing over barriers and knocking down a police officer – causing her to suffer a concussion – during the January 6 riot.
Samsel is from Bristol, Pennsylvania, in Bucks County, CBS Philadelphia reports.
Samsel has been in federal custody since his arrest in January on charges of forcibly assaulting or interfering with a federal agent, obstructing an official proceeding and obstructing an officer.
This week, another Capitol riot defendant, Ronald Sandlin, told a federal judge during a bail hearing that Samsel was one of a number of defendants in the case who'd been subjected to violence by D.C. correctional officers.
In an interview with WUSA, Elisabeth Pasqualini said Samsel was "viciously and savagely" beaten by a corrections officer in the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility after the guard zip-tied Samsel's hands.
She said she was only alerted to the alleged attack when two attorneys representing other defendants contacted her and said her client had gotten "a beatdown" by a guard and was in the hospital.
"He has definitely suffered serious injuries, including a shattered orbital floor, a broken orbital bone, his jaw was broken, his nose was broken," Pasqualini said, adding that Samsel is currently unable to see out of his right eye and may permanently lose vision in it.
Washington DC is like GITMO where your miranda/human rights and Constitutional rights are not in force. All these people that allowed themselves to get suckered into doing down there.........they had no idea how they were being setup. It seems even the lawyers have a hard time getting into see their clients and even congressman and senators are barred from going and I don't hear one peep out of the Republican party about abuses of power....... SURE MEETs THE DESCRIPTION OF A GULAG for POLITICAL PRISONERS.
harddriver wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:54 am
Washington DC is like GITMO where your miranda/human rights and Constitutional rights are not in force. All these people that allowed themselves to get suckered into doing down there.........they had no idea how they were being setup. It seems even the lawyers have a hard time getting into see their clients and even congressman and senators are barred from going and I don't hear one peep out of the Republican party about abuses of power....... SURE MEETs THE DESCRIPTION OF A GULAG for POLITICAL PRISONERS.
EXACTLY. I remember leading-up to it hearing about the caravans that were being organized and thinking something was definitely up.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” - George Orwell