Justice for Emily Rae Rice March & Rally Sunday, 1PM- Denver CopWatch
Submitted by strongwindsahead on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 17:31
Justice For Emily Rae Rice
Denver CopWatch will hold a march and rally on Sunday, February 17, to call for justice in the wrongful death of Emily Rae Rice. The march will begin at 1PM at Bannock and 6th in front of the ER sign at Denver General Hospital. The group will then march to the City Jail at 13th and Bannock.
Emily Rae Rice (24)died on the morning of February 19, 2006 inside a Denver Jail Cell after Denver Sheriff’s Deputies refused to get her medical aid. Ms. Rice complained that she couldn't feel her legs, other women in her cell asked that she be given medical aid but those calls were ignored. The autopsy showed that she had major lacerations to her spleen and liver, sustained in a traffic accident immediately before her arrest. Denver CopWatch considers this a Wrongful Death and is calling for the immediate firing of the deputies who refused Ms. Rice aid.
Since then, the little information to come out about the case indicates a nurse and several deputies at the jail insulted and possibly used force against Emily in response to her complaints. Incomplete video from cameras at the jail show two deputies with Emily, a segment of the video is missing, when the video resumes the two deputies are standing over Emily, who is lying on the floor of a hallway inside the jail. A report by the Office of the Independent Monitor was supposed to be released in August, but has been delayed.
Please join CopWatch this Sunday to remember Emily Rae Rice and to pressure the City to resolve this case.
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Now maybe I'm missing something but it sounds like those deputies have committed manslaughter at the very least, and if they did use any force that should be considered murder. Forget asking for their termination we should be calling for their arrest? Where are the criminal charges? I mean I realize an officer's job is tough, but there is absolutely no excuse for this! Police and other "authorities should be punished FAR more severely than the average Joe. When they are granted all that power they need to be held accountable not only as a normal citizen, but they need to be held responsible for their use/misuse of the powers we grant them. When you join the force and they give you Kevlar, a truncheon, a badge (authority), cuffs, zip-ties for when you run out of cuffs, a taser, mace/pepper spray, a handgun, a shotgun, sometimes even an assault rifle, extra ammunition, sometimes tear gas, a suped-up car, hand-to-hand combat training, and a radio to call for back-up, you can't act surprised when bad things go down and you can't complain about how rough it is either. Oh, and I forgot, some cops get dogs capable of tearing you to shreds in mere seconds too.
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