P O S Dayton cops allow man to kill himself

• Devils Advocate

  

  This otta give ya a woody ender.
  

  County Jail, 20-year-old Kylen English told the police officer behind the wheel “I want to die.”
  
  English also asked the officer, “Do you believe you go to heaven if you kill yourself?”

  The 6-foot, 210-pound English,
who was handcuffed with his hands behind his back but not belted to his seat, dove out the broken window, then jumped off the bridge to his death below

  “Shouldn’t people be safe when they are in custody?” Forward asked. “We expect our men and women in blue to protect and serve the citizens of our community. This also includes citizens in the custody of the police department.”
  

  http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime/man-told-officer-i-want-to-die-before-jumping-out-of-cruiser-1209762.html
  
  Enjoy!
• Tiernan

  Good riiddance the guy was wasting perfectly good O2 the rest of us could be using.
• Steel Valley Football

  Thread title FAIL.
• thavoice

  Do they usually seatbelt them in when they are under arrest?
• Iliketurtles

  

  thavoice;834280 wrote:Do they usually seatbelt them in when they are under arrest?

  
  I don't think so. I know I wasnt when I got arrested 2 years ago. My thing is how does a guy in handcuffs get out of a car window and over to the bridge before the cop can get out of the car and stop him.
• Tiernan

  Iliketurtles;834288 wrote:I don't think so. I know I wasnt when I got arrested 2 years ago. My thing is how does a guy in handcuffs get out of a car window and over to the bridge before the cop can get out of the car and stop him.

  Who cares?
• vball10set

  Tiernan;834298 wrote:Who cares?

  
  this....RIP
• SnotBubbles

  

  ccrunner609;834267 wrote:
  
  
  Does this guy throw up red flags for you? I am sure the cop didnt think so.

  Uhhhhm....yeah!!! He IS black!
  
  (kidding, kidding)
• Devils Advocate

  

  Steel Valley Football;834271 wrote:Thread title FAIL.

  How do you figure? when under arrest, the State is responsible for your health and well being. He obviously was under some form of direess, IE: banging head on brick wall. I would thing they should have put his ass in a straight jacket and hauled him of to the Ole Loony bin.
  
  Not that I care, I think this is Darwinism at its finest.
• thePITman

  

  It's always someone else's fault. *rolls eyes*
• sej

  

  I think a lot of the Dayton cruisers now have molded plastic seats in the back. I'm not sure if they have seatbelts or not.
  
  iliketurtles, where the cruiser would have been stopped only has a narrow sidewalk between the roadway and the side of the bridge. It would not take long at all to clear that distance, especially if traffic was still flying by on the driver's side and stalled the officer from exiting for a moment. I've also seen cruiser windows get kicked out, and it appeared suprisingly easy compared to what I thought it would be.
  
  cc, he hit on the rocky flood plain area where there was no water.
  
  
  Devil's, as I understand it, the officer had pulled over to address the fact that he was beating his head on the window.
  
  With all the information I've read thus far, blaming it on the cop is like placing the blame on the gun when someone gets shot.
• Y-Town Steelhound

  

  thePITman;834343 wrote:It's always someone else's fault. *rolls eyes*

  
  It's also never the police's fault *rolls eyes*
• dlazz

  There aren't seatbelts in the backseat of most cruisers, at least from what I've seen.
• FatHobbit

  

  Devils Advocate;834339 wrote:How do you figure? when under arrest, the State is responsible for your health and well being.

  If he broke out of the car, I don't feel the officer/state is responsible for him anymore. His actions had consequences.
  

  Devils Advocate;834339 wrote:Not that I care, I think this is Darwinism at its finest.

  
  Agree.
• Apple

  

  I was talking with my son yesterday about this guy. Turns out they were in the same class together a couple years ago. My son said the guy did have a good singing voice, but other than that, the dude was worthless. Though DPD don't deserve any awards for their handling of the kid, I don't think they deserve the POS moniker. I agree with Devil's Advocate that this was Darwinism at its finest.
• Tiernan

  ccrunner609;834306 wrote:I bet the river was only a couple feet deep.......went over it a couple days ago and it was low.

  wouldn't have made a difference how deep it was, he prolly couldn't swim anyway cuz he's....
  
  
  
  
  
  (in hand cuffs) bet you thought I was gonna say "black" didn't ya? buncha racist mo fos.
• ksig489

  He was perfectly safe in that car...he chose to forgo that safety.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Shit happens. Rest in Peace genius.
• said_aouita

  

  Good. One less criminal we'd have to pay for in prison.
• ohiobucks1

  

  FatHobbit;834401 wrote:If he broke out of the car, I don't feel the officer/state is responsible for him anymore. His actions had consequences.
  
  
  

  
  I agree with everything you said. +1