Lee Stinton is a 45-year-old Northern Irish hairdresser. He once lived in the US as a legal resident with a work permit. The Social Security Administration had checked his bona fides and given him a Social Security number. He paid his taxes. And he had...
  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    19 days ago

    …"They told the doctors to cut out all of my [subdermal] piercings. … “I told the nurses specifically: ‘I do not consent to this.’ But they put lidocaine [for numbing] on my face and on the back of my neck. The thing is it is only supposed to work for 40 minutes; I was lying there for well over an hour and they just started doing it. I was shackled to the bed. I couldn’t move. “The guards who brought me there were laughing at me. They were just like: ‘Oh, that’s gnarly.’ I kept saying: ‘I can feel this. It hurts.’”

    Holy fucking shit.

    This man describes a completely arbitrary arrest process followed by being packed into a 10 man cell with 100 people in it and one toilet, consistently being denied food and hygiene, being punished for speaking to a lawyer and watching someone who’d been begging staff for their heart medication die of a heart attack right in front of him.

    It’s important for Americans to hear this man’s story in his own words: https://archive.is/XpPIO