Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.

‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’

Imagine falling and breaking your neck, but no one takes you to the hospital right away.

That’s exactly what a local woman says happened to her inside the St. Clair County Jail and now she’s trying to make sure something like this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.

    • yuriy@lemmy.world
      532·
      8 months ago

      In a perfect world the payout fucking destroys this police force and a new one is built from the ground up.

      Realistically something as bad if not worse will happen there within a year. 50/50 whether it even makes news.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        401·
        8 months ago

        The taxpayers are gonna lose millions while the cops responsible for this suffer no consequences whatsoever. And any politician trying to hold them responsible will be treated as being “weak on crime.”

        • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
          4·
          8 months ago

          The taxpayers are gonna lose millions while the cops responsible for this suffer no consequences whatsoever.

          That’s the really disgusting part. It’s disgusting they designed a system like this, and that the system is working as designed. This is not an oversight. This is intentional.