It's quite possible someone did. How would that have changed anything?
If the people that put him in the cell forgot he's there I highly doubt a missing person's report is going to make them start looking around for him...
kinda makes you wonder, how come no one filed a missing person's report? He was 'missing' for 5 days? And he missed his midterms, wouldn't a friend/family notice he's gone?
kinda makes you wonder, how come no one filed a missing person's report? He was 'missing' for 5 days? And he missed his midterms, wouldn't a friend/family notice he's gone?
kinda makes you wonder, how come no one filed a missing person's report? He was 'missing' for 5 days? And he missed his midterms, wouldn't a friend/family notice he's gone?
another problem with law enforcement dolling out 'punishment' is the number of dogs they kill. For many police 'stations' it's almost one dog per day.
Most don't believe this and think there'd be tons of documentation. However, even police killings of people don't get well documented historically.
The sad part is many people weren't even related to who they were looking for in anyway (wrong address usually). They've even killed dogs tied up and others just sitting wagging their tails.
There is currently a pretty big movement nationally to rectify this issue.
http://kutnews.org/post/details-emerge-police-shooting-cisco-pet-dog
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Student left in cell for 5 days wants $20 million from DEA
May 3, 2012 | 7:36 am
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Daniel Chong
Daniel Chong, a 23-year-old UC San Diego student whose five-day ordeal behind bars has made national headlines, plans to sue the Drug Enforcement Administration over the incident, his attorney said.
The DEA apologized Wednesday to Chong, who was accidentally left unattended in a holding cell for five days and reportedly drank his own urine to survive.
San Diego attorney Gene Iredale said his client was "still recovering" from the ordeal. The attorney submitted the initial paperwork needed for a lawsuit Wednesday. The claim seeks $20 million in compensation for the incident.
"He is glad to be alive," Iredale said of Chong. "He wants to make sure that what happened to him doesn't happen to anyone else."
News of the incident came to light when Chong told a San Diego television station he spent nearly a week in the cell without food, water or access to a toilet after an April 21 raid on a house in San Diego.
The DEA, which identified Chong only as "the individual in question," said he and eight others were swept up during a raid of a suspected Ecstasy distribution operation where agents found guns, ammunition, 18,000 Ecstasy pills and other drugs.
The nine suspects were taken to a DEA area headquarters, where they were fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed, the agency said. After processing, seven were taken to a county detention facility and one was released.
Chong, the agency said, was "accidentally left in one of the cells." He told NBC San Diego he kicked the door "many, many times" in a futile attempt to get agents' attention.
When they finally found Chong, he was taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital, where he spent five days. Iredale said Chong, who was close to kidney failure and had trouble breathing, spent three of those days in the intensive-care unit.
Chong also suffered hallucinations and "thought he was going insane," Iredale said. Chong told NBC San Diego he tried to kill himself by breaking his glasses and cutting his wrists.
"I didn't care if I died," he told the station. "I was completely insane."
William R. Sherman, acting special agent in charge of the DEA's San Diego Division, apologized in a statement Wednesday and said he had ordered "an extensive review" of DEA policies and procedures.
"I am deeply troubled by the incident that occurred here last week," Sherman said. "I extend my deepest apologies [to] the young man and want to express that this event is not indicative of the high standards that I hold my employees to."
The DEA said Chong told agents he had been at the house that was raided "to get high with his friends" and later admitted that he used a white powdery substance found in his cell that tested positive for methamphetamine.
Iredale confirmed Chong had stayed with friends the night of April 20 to "celebrate" the day heralded by many marijuana aficionados "in the typical way -- by smoking some pot."
But the attorney said the meth found in the cell was not his client's and was there before his arrival.
"The DEA's protocol was so sloppy that somebody who was a previous prisoner secreted a small amount of meth in a plastic bag inside a blanket," Iredale said.
Let me help you understand since your little bartender brain can't keep up.
It's about our law enforcement like our people today going beyond what's acceptable and dolling out a punishment assuming guilt.
Try to keep up.
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Doesn't seem all that shocking when you consider how many people are jailed for drug-related offenses. Yet another failing of our war on drugs...I've heard reports drugs are shockingly commonplace in jail.
Next on "I Shouldn't Be Alive," the Daniel Chong story.
Next time they'll just kill the person and dispose of the body to prevent this kind of backlash.
Don't want to sound like the guy wearing the tinfoil hat in the room but I feel like this could already be happening in certain departments of our government.
Eh maybe... in something like this hell no.. His friends were all there when he was detained. Although I'm curious as to how no inquiries were made?
Probably one of the biggest troll posts i've seen on ATOT. COngrats. Lol.The DEA is helping to keep scum and their poison off the streets. They are the most effective and useful element of the government followed by ICE and DHS.
If you dont want to be kept without food and water for five days.....dont be involved with drugs to begin with.
Eh maybe... in something like this hell no.. His friends were all there when he was detained. Although I'm curious as to how no inquiries were made?
Don't want to sound like the guy wearing the tinfoil hat in the room but I feel like this could already be happening in certain departments of our government.
5 days without water? He lived?
Ima have to call shens.