Officers were dispatched to a business to assist an elderly customer who appeared to be suffering from dementia. At the scene, officers found him extremely confused. He told them the year was 1948 and that the president was George Washington. So they call his daughter to come pick him up. So how did things go so terribly wrong that day, that this 74 year old man ended up dying alone in a jail cell 9 hours later, confined in a restraint chair with a hood over his head? The story of Lester Isbill is one that could happen to anyone. He wasn’t a criminal. He was a good man. He had committed no crime. Yet he would nevertheless fall victim to this terrible death at the hands of the very people who were supposed to protect and care for him.
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Every single jailer and medical staff in that disgusting jail need to be fired then arrested for elder abuse
of course cops killed him. I'm on mock jury for cops abuse to innocents 😢
cops are stupid and have no common sense, these fools have authority over us and are heavily armed, that's a problem looking for a place to land.
I find it hard to believe the sheriff watched 9 hours of CCTV footage of this man dying and thought it was a good thing.
If so then he's inhuman.
He gives him choices when the victim can't think. Sadistic. Satanic.
It baffles me how you are able to make consistent content how is there such a surplus of police misconduct
🤬🤬🤬🤬 that entire police department need to be taken out and beaten. They were TOLD he was having a medical emergency. They MURDERED him. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
How did things go so trabley Rong couse the cops are there cops never help anyone all thay do is kill innocent civilians 🖕🖕🖕🤮🤮🤮🤮
FTP
Was the shotgun, the walking stick?
Omg!!! Wake up AMERICA!!!! OUR GOVERNMENT IS VERY EVIL!!!
Somebody please help this man😮😢😮😢❤🙏🙏🙏🙏 I'm having an anxiety attack just watching this video
A person with dementia should not be left alone under any circumstance.
This is the worse kind of torture! I cannot imagine The feeling so helpless while dying slowly! Everyone involved needs prison time!! EVERYONE! The pain the family must feel watching the video of a loved one tortured to death must be enraging. Justice must be served! 🙏
Every person involved deserves 9 hours in that chair with that same hood.
Rot in hell
The sheriff of that county is so dumb for not firing his staff
I'm shocked that the gang leader is upset that several of his gangsters were indicted. Shocked, I tell ya!
No consequences for the gang leader is pretty disappointing, though.
This one is going to be difficult to spin in order to get a good outcome, but there is a little hope, the police can say they lack the competence to make medical decisions and all responsibility rests with the two medical staff present. The medical staff could argue they were never given full information from the police and therefore they cannot be held responsible. It is a long shot but it's worth giving a try, a good lawyer might even find some other angles to put into the mix so all hope is no lost, it might still be possible to turn this around and everyone comes up smelling of roses!
“Uhh I do not” Wow!!!! Everyone involved need to be charged with negligence homicide at minimum and others with manslaughter.
it shouldve been more than 1.9 mil🙄🤬
He is obviously impaired so why did they think that they needed to arrest him instead of calling an ambulance.
I understand the trope "Don't judge a book by its cover" but this Sheriff… Another trope comes to mind… "A picture is worth a thousand words". 26:58
Amen !! Amen !! Amen !!! Thank God they put all these LIEN TYRANT'S KILLER BYTCH CLOWN'S in PRISON for MURDER 🤡 !!!! Never ..Never Trust any LIEN TYRANT'S KILLER BYTCH CLOWN'S 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Smh omgggg they wouldn’t be able to do that had that been my Dad. Eff that. This is so crazy. Literally unbelievable 😡
The smerk on Courtney's face in her mugshot, though …
He had already been arrested so his POS daughter knew he had dimensia and major medical issues…how irresponsible of her not to take his car keys and gain custody…POA of him to care for him.
Fuck the family for taking a settlement. Fucking disgraceful.
EMS should have taken control of that situation when they knew he was in a medical crisis
More mentally unstable Veterans as police. Problem
A lot of avoidable heartache and grief caused by people who didn’t want to do their job.
These jail employees murdered him. Every officer involved with bringing him there should be brought up on murder charges. Everyone in the jail that had anything to do with him should be charged with aiding and abetting the officers and brought up on the same charges as the officers. Qualified immunity does not apply to these officers anymore. They murdered him.
Many do not know how to manage patients with dementia and behavioural issues. They can’t be ordered to behave. Needed ambulance and place of safety.
And cops wonder why people hate them so much.
The point this interaction went horrifically wrong – Police arrived
Good samaritan calls police who coerce the mans daughter into signing his death warrant, drag the poor sick man to the jail where he falls and the answer to his facial injuries is to confine the injured and sick man for 9 hour with a spit hood and without water or any comfort while the medical staff watches and laughs. Then the sheriff condones the death at the hand of his employees and rubs salt in the wounds of the dead by implying the dead man was uncooperative.
So why would anyone want to contact 911 for help? Learn a lsson and do NOT call the government for help. Just let your tax dollars go without expecting any return, because they will kill you if they can and the sheriff will probably be elected again and again.
Just guess, but I would wager the man would give back the $millions just to have another day, just enough to say good bue.
Evil. Just pure evil. They do not deserve our tax money if they treat people like animals. Each person involved in this situation needs to be fired jailed and for the worst offenders death.
They waited until they tortured him and he died before calling for and allowing medical care!
https://www.youtube.com/live/Etp_T56v4b0?si=OMJjg6TiMCqLk0oV
I've crawled on the floor to use the bathroom in county jail all because of lack of medical.
For profit jails mean no medical?
Like our Gov. and this Admin: blame others for their F^%$ ups geeze, they don;t even care someone died in their custody WTF . Shines a light on the Supreme court ruling ,police in the US are in no way to protect the citizens of the US ,or are they accountable for our safety hummm .
Classic US Police Serve and Protect behaviour.
No civilised country or state would allow this to occur to a senior.
Police need to be held to account.
What a great daughter smh
There are normally strict policies when it comes to restraint chairs/beds you have to allow extremidity movement every hour for at least 5-10 minutes every hour where i use to work… an you could only keep them in a restraint chair like that for 6 hours max
This sheriff is the epitome of why people hate cops. That POS stuck up for these torturing mother fuckers.