Young black man jailed since April for alleged $5 theft found dead in cell

No. That would be a case for actual outrage. This is just race baiters race baiting. The person's race has nothing to do with the story, nor really does the fact that the theft was for $5 of merchandise. The story has some connection to the under funding of mental health care in the United States (lack of available beds at the state hospital), but is mostly just about a crazy moron acting like a crazy moron. It isn't as though he was not being treated for his mental health issues though, he was being provided his medication, he just refused to take it.

 

Yes it does... Because the tax payers are being billed for every day that person stayed in jail for the theft of 5 bucks worth of merchandise.

Locking people up for excessive time for a petty crime just to make money.

 

Cool. Where do you live? I'm coming to take 5 dollars worth of item from your house. It's no big deal.

 

I don't know the statutes in Virginia, but in California petty theft is punishable by up to 6 months in county jail and a fine of up to $1000 or both. So four months is not excessive time. Perhaps it would be better if there were some cheaper alternative available, like corporal punishment, but in America today we have a limited number of punishments available for crimes.

 

What the ****.

Do people understand the value of a life? The value of living in this world, the value of a son, a cousin, a nephew and a friend? Do you understand that he has loved ones and how hard it is for them to loose him, do you understand that he just lost his life due to 5 dollars worth of theft.

The whole idea that you have to contribute positively to this man mad society or else you would be better dead is ridiculous. There is no bright side to a young man unnecessarily dying, it's a tragedy.

 

That's not the point I'm making here but you're more than welcome to try. But tell your mom to buy a black dress and tell your friends to get ready to be pallbearers before you show up.

In this situation... That's something that could be worked off instead of punishing the tax payers.

 

For $5? More than 1 week is excessive IMO.

These type of policy cause our mass incarceration issue in the US. I'm not even sure if such policy yield much of any return either. We might be not only wasting money, but wasting money for the heck of nothing much.

 

I like how you try to change the subject of this thread from racial to mental health.

 

I'll tell you what, you can take 5 bucks for me and I promise that I would never kill over it or hold you hostage in my basement for 4 months. Because it's 5 dollars, and it is no big deal.

 

They can't see that it's the tax payers that suffer more because they are paying to create jobs because of the excessive laws on the books... But they will complain about spending 35 bucks a year in taxes for food stamps.

 

curious what the stats are for young bipolar/schizos dying in county mental health facilities.

Don't mean this as a debate on the OP. I'm just genuinely curious what happens to these kids when in "better" care.

 

You're the one who made it into a racial issue

 

Not every life is as valuable as the next. I would argue that this person's life wasn't all that valuable....so much so that he threw it away.

 

All of that money taxpayers dish out to the DoD and there's military personnel who serve the country have to be on welfare. That's ridiculous and even more ridiculous that people aren't paying attention to the shyt that's going on.

 

Contradictory that conservatives trust government when it comes to arresting and jailing people.