Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office destroyed evidence diabetic prisoner died | The Daily Dolt

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office destroyed evidence diabetic prisoner died | The Daily Dolt.

Today’s revolting Republican is once again Sheriff Joe. He’s the tougher-than-thou-on-crime sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Phoenix. We know all about his d-bag tactics, from immigration to prisoner care. This is just more of the same shit.

In this case, a prisoner, Deborah Braillard, age 46, was taken in on some drug charges. Deborah was diabetic, and needed regular insulin injections, as many diabetics do, in order to stay alive. Guards, however, did not allow her her insulin, and she went through four days of hell before succumbing to an irreversible diabetic coma and eventually dying. From the article:

According to the pretrial deposition testimony of the guards and inmates who witnessed the incident, Braillard was constantly moaning and crying out in pain, asking for help, repeatedly vomiting, defecating on herself and having seizures.

“She would shake. Her body would stiffen up,” said Tamela Harper, an inmate in the jail with Braillard. “They never did anything to help her.”

Oh, and on top of this…the Sheriff’s office falsified documents after the fact to cover their ass. Also from the article:

In this instance, [Dr. Todd] Wilcox [Editor’s note: a former employee of the County Jail who left because he was seeing way to much of this sort of thing] testified the medical screening document that should have been created when Braillard was booked into the jail was missing. At trial, the Sheriff’s Office produced a document indicating that Braillard had — for some unknown reason — told jail staff during intake that she was not diabetic. However, the document is dated three days after the intake took place and hours after Braillard had already been rushed to the hospital in an irreversible diabetic coma. The family’s lawyers say the document is a fake. Wilcox explained this sort of thing is not unusual on Sheriff Joe’s watch….

Read the whole thing. It’s horrifying. This sheriff is a conservative, teabagger hero.

Is this the best they can do? Worship this asshole?

He’s also up for re-election, and the article has links to his opponent’s web sites, and so I beg you, if you are in Maricopa County, to please vote this scum-sucking d-bag out. Now.

Sheriff Joe, you’re the reason I don’t live in Arizona. You’re just another Republican thug.

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