I would say, given the professionalism of the guards in their “horseplay” and other duties, that he was never being checked on at all. What most likely happened is that some guard was signing his name off on the 10 minute check either without doing it at all, or while paroling the halls without even looking in the cells. In all likelihood the vomit and feces from his death is probably the only thing that got anyone’s attention, and they didn’t notice or care that he was dead until they went to clean up the cell.

All this proves is that the most dangerous thing about pot is what the government can do to you once you are caught with it. If you happen to be a black teenager you can even get the death sentence, without trial or appeal.

As said above the evening news won’t report this – doesn’t fit the memo. Disagree that his race matters (on reporting) – the evening news job is to put everyone at ease -its all ok, go to bed, wake up and go to work tomorrow, the other governments are worse to their citizens, etc.

How much group think to you have to believe in before you look at a kid (mouthy or not) soiling his pants, displaying these symptoms, and do NOTHING. Not for an hour. Unbelieveable.

These incidents, rarely if ever, produce a Hugh Thompson like figure (great man – google his story) that stops the bad stuff. It is sad really, what our society has become.

Prayers to the family -

Really? The absence of chest rise and respiration sounds didn’t get the officer’s attention. That is rudimentary first aid stuff there. And the whole sit there as he vomits and defecates on himself is pretty charming stuff too. PCSO deprives this kid of his humanity because he allegedly bought a weed that the government doesn’t approve of? Very humane stuff.

Us and them. Bad guys vs. good guys. Dopers vs. good citizens. LEO’s vs. “those people.” Man’s obsession with duality somehow makes this atrocity acceptable in the eyes of some. Nuke ‘em! Kill ‘em all and let god sort it out! But the next victim could be you. Or your child. But this is all beside the point: How could we let this happen to another person?

No surprise, it has happened before (but interesting to read about the guy who resigned)

Eric’s death is eerily similar to the death of a 17-year-old in the Miami lockup eight years earlier.

Omar Paisley, who had been detained at the Miami-Dade Juvenile Detention Center after getting into a fight, died June 9 of a ruptured appendix after begging guards and nurses for three days for medical attention. A grand jury rendered a blistering 50-page report that criticized “the utter lack of humanity demonstrated” by officers at the 226-bed Miami-Dade Juvenile Detention. Omar’s death, the panel said, was “tragic” and “preventable.”

“History repeats itself, and this was, frankly, inevitable,” said former Miami-Dade Superintendent Dale Dobuler, who took over the lockup in Miami following Omar’s death, and left three years later, saying there was nothing he could do to help prevent a similar tragedy from unfolding again.

Oh yeah, and about that “horseplay”…

Perez was being housed in module B-2 of the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Detention Center on July 9 at about 7:40 p.m. when he and other detainees were taken to a cafeteria for snacks. When the youths were finished eating, an ordinary search of the boys for contraband food turned into an episode of “horseplay,” as officers laughed and joked with the youths they were searching, the report said.

Eric was “roughly tossed in the air, striking the wall and/or floor with his head and shoulder as he came down,” the report said. Security video from that day showed Eric wobbly on his feet after he fell.