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The world will never know how Eric Perez died
Ursus:
Comments left for the above article, "Guard suspended in teen's death was fired from last job" (by Carol Marbin Miller, 07.26.11, Miami Herald), #s 21-26:
Jim Mac · 07/27/2011 12:08 PM
Cops are unskilled punks with badges, who have no other skills so Florida makes them cops.HHERALD99 · 07/27/2011 05:11 PM in reply to Jim Mac
You can not generalize this, you are mistaken. Not all cops are the same.merrychristmas · 07/28/2011 04:31 PM in reply to Jim Mac
cops were not involved in this it was jailers, two different animals. and btw most police depts require a college educatione before hiring and all require college education for promotion. This hiring smells of favors and unfortunately "favors" occur in all industries.[/list]
cp111 · 07/27/2011 12:40 PM
How many idiots in DJJ did not see "NO REHIRE IN ANY POSITION" in this lazy, negligent's (I cannot use the word I want here) personnel file? Anthony Flowers in a position to be able to hire? Nepotism or exchange of "favors" methinks.HHERALD99 · 07/27/2011 04:23 PM
Well, it is time for a big law suit. Nail the department. BIG TIME.Pat · 07/27/2011 05:51 PM
This is so sad, I hope his parents will demand justice. This should not have happened, especially not to someone so young. The state of Florida must be held accountable for the actions of its employees.
Copyright 2011 Miami Herald Media Co.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---The [above] article was also published ... by the Palm Beach Post, ...on the 27th, under the title Guard, suspended in teen's death in custody, was fired from last job.
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The publication of Carol Marbin Miller's article in the Palm Beach Post also elicited some discussion:
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Comments left for the above article, "Guard, suspended in teen's death in custody, was fired from last job" (by Carol Marbin Miller; July 27, 2011; Miami Herald/Palm Beach Post):
leslie · 7:54 AM, 7/27/2011
Now heres a real story, corruption and incompetence involving government run institutions. Never heard this before, must be a new trend.
This is what happens when people are hired based on federal tax credits and to fill quotas. You get the employees that no self respecting private business would hire.
Yet we as tax payers get to pay for this continued incompetent behaviour from civil servents.
And people are calling the shooter in Oslo crazy. He's more sane than any government worker.Sa · 8:10 AM, 7/27/2011
Sounds like the kid was poisoned and left to die an agonizing death.Mohawker · 8:17 AM, 7/27/2011
NOW fire the one that hired this one and so on . 0% tolerance . No more morons .Sandy · 8:40 AM, 7/27/2011
A simple phone call verifying her last employment record, and a child might still be alive. Flowers should go also.@ Sa · 8:45 AM, 7/27/2011
@ SA NO THEY DIDNT POISON HIM HE HAD A BRAIN ANERISM THAT BURST.....The Truth · 10:48 AM, 7/27/2011
They stopped him for a broken bicycle light???? COME ON!!!! I'm all for locking up thugs, but the cops obviously had it in for this kid. I agree he shouldn't have had dope on him. There's definately more to this story that's not being told.R.C · 12:17 PM, 7/27/2011
SOMEONE REALLY NEEDS TO COME IN A CLEAN HOUSE WITH THIS PEOPLE WHO DON'T GIVE A **** ABOUT THIS YOUNG KIDS. HOW WOULD THEY LIKE IF SOMEONE LOCKED THEM UP IN A ROOM AND LEFT THEM TO DIE? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY DID THAT'S WHY THIS WORLD IS SO F***** UP NOW. BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T GO THAT EXTRA MILE TO PROTECT THESE KIDS.leeeo · 1:51 PM, 7/27/2011
Our community need to know that Anthony Flowers has an outstanding reputation amongst juvenile justice advocates in Palm Beach County.
He also is well respected by his staff and the youth under his care.JS · 5:08 PM, 7/27/2011
Ms. King was cleared by WPB Police of any wrong doing due to the video tape that showed the entire incident. Ms. King was not involved but was on duty at the time of the incident. If you place someone in a situation (Orlando) where they are over worked and the facility under-staffed, mistakes happen. If you waited tables, washed dishes, seated people, and answered the phone; something will obviously get overlooked. Of course the PTB never fall on their sword and we all know what rolls down hill!
Copyright © 2011 The Palm Beach Post.
Ursus:
Video news footage at the title link:
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WPEC - CBS12 News
PEREZ ATTORNEY: DJJ suspended guard previously fired in Orlando facility
July 27, 2011 9:30 PM
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Just more than one week ago Maritza Perez buried her 18-year-old son Eric after he died in custody at the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Detention Center in West Palm Beach.
On Wednesday Perez sat down with one of her lawyers William Zoeller, tears welling up in her eyes, as she reacts to a news report in the Miami Herald. The Herald got the file of detention center guard Laryell King. She was on duty the day Eric Perez died at the facility and is now on suspension.
"She was the guard that was put in front of his room to watch him, while he was put into the medical confinement room about 5:00 in the morning," said Zoeller.
Zoeller says that information comes from one of the two guards fired following Eric's death.
"She apparently was sitting outside the door in a chair when he went to the cafeteria. When he came back, there was nobody watching him," said Zoeller.
The Herald reports the documents show that guard Laryell King had been fired from a DJJ facility in Orlando for negligently leaving a child alone in a room. In her file is a notation, "no rehire in any position." Yet here she was working in West Palm Beach.
"Apparently on their employment file, it said do not rehire. Why do you hire that person again? Obviously it's got to mean someone was negligent in what they were doing," said Zoeller.
"They should not have her there. They should not have rehired again. If it happened one time, it's going to happen again. It's going to happen again," said Maritza Perez.
Copyright © 2011 Freedom Communications · CBS 12 News
Ursus:
The Florida DJJ expresses its intention to release the video to the mother, as they are required to do, by law, upon request of a family member. Why haven't they already done so?
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The Miami Herald
Posted on Thursday, 07.28.11
Mom will get video of son's death in lockup
The head of Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice promises to release the video of a teenage boy dying in a lockup to the teen's mother.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
CMARBIN@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Florida's top juvenile justice administrator said Thursday that several hours of video depicting a teenager's death at a South Florida lockup will be released to the teen's mother.
Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Wansley Walters told The Miami Herald Thursday that she intends for her agency to speak openly in the coming days about what happened to 18-year-old Eric Perez, who died July 10 at the Palm Beach County detention center after his distress and pleas for medical attention were ignored for several hours.
At the center of ongoing investigations into Eric's death are seven to eight hours of video shot by two cameras at the lockup.
A new Florida law, passed this spring, forbids state agencies from releasing pictures, audio or video tape capturing the death, or events leading to the death, of any person — except to family members, who are entitled to any such footage.
Eric's mother has formally requested the video.
"Absolutely," Walters said Thursday afternoon. "We are going to release it as soon as we can."
"They are the only ones who have the power to do with the tape what they want to do — not us," Walters said of Eric's family.
The youth's mother, Maritza Perez, repeated her vow Thursday to make public the images. "I want everybody to know what happened to Eric," she said. "I don't want this to happen to any other kid. I don't want any other mother to go through what I'm going through."
Eric, who turned 18 on July 2 while detained at the West Palm Beach lockup, had been arrested a few days before his birthday when police found a small amount of marijuana in his possession after they stopped his bicycle for having a broken light. Beginning around 1:30 a.m., records show, Eric began to complain of a severe headache, and he spent the next several hours vomiting and apparently hallucinating that someone was on top of him. He was pronounced dead at 8:09 a.m.
A lockup guard who was fired as a result of Eric's death told The Herald his supervisor and the detention center's superintendent barred him from calling 911 to seek help for the teen.
In June 2003, DJJ was involved in a similar episode when 14-year-old Omar Paisley died at the Miami lockup of a ruptured appendix after begging guards and nurses for medical care. In the wake of a stinging grand jury report, as well as a series of tense legislative hearings, DJJ administrators vowed to ensure that the health of detainees never again would be compromised.
Since Eric's death, Walters has insisted that policies, procedures and training were in place to prevent another tragedy.
"Those policies are not only on the books, but probably among the single, strongest policies we have," Walters said. "We have documents that show people have been regularly trained in them."
Administrators currently are researching the number of times guards and supervisors have either called 911, or driven a detainee to the hospital themselves, Walters said, adding that "this occurs on a regular basis."
The tape of Eric's death is soundless, Walters revealed, despite a grand jury's 2004 recommendation that DJJ surveillance cameras be equipped for audio as well as video. At the time, the panel said it was hindered in its investigation of alleged mistreatment of detainees by the lack of audio-equipped cameras.
"I suspect it was a money issue," said Walters of the continued lack of audio equipment. She took over the agency earlier this year following the inauguration of Gov. Rick Scott.
Administrators also are looking into how Laryell King, a guard on duty the night Eric died, was hired by the West Palm Beach lockup despite being forced to resign from another lockup three years earlier for "negligently" leaving detainees unsupervised. At that time, a notice was put in her file stating she should not be rehired.
"That entire thing is under review," Walters said. "How did it happen? Trust me, we're asking the same question."
Copyright 2011 Miami Herald Media Co.
Ursus:
Comments left for the above article, "Mom will get video of son's death in lockup" (by Carol Marbin Miller, 07.28.11, The Miami Herald), #s 1-21:
Carl Ellis · 07/28/2011 08:15 PM
This comment was flagged for review.[/list]
MIAMIVICING · 07/29/2011 06:17 AM in reply to Carl Ellis
A bad means for a good end. Who said life was fair?CarolMarbinMiller · 07/29/2011 11:57 AM in reply to MIAMIVICING
Here's the deal, people: If my newspaper won't moderate the discussion here, I will. We will not be congratulating ourselves that a mother's son is dead for the crime of smoking marijuana. We will not be expressing joy at the death of a teenager - any teenager. If you can't live by these rules, go post your venom somewhere else, because I will personally ensure that you go away.OnLine · 07/29/2011 11:31 PM in reply to CarolMarbinMiller
I agree with you, but as much as we may not like it, that is just how it goes. They have as much right.jim444 · 07/30/2011 07:48 AM in reply to CarolMarbinMiller
You go girl, I'm behind you 100 percent.[/list][/list][/list]
Hopie · 07/29/2011 07:59 AM in reply to Carl Ellis
What???? What an idiotic replycassiuscasio · 07/29/2011 08:50 AM in reply to Carl Ellis
Would you say the same thing if Rush Limbaugh was arrested for all of his illegal narcotics and died the same way?OnLine · 07/29/2011 11:29 PM in reply to cassiuscasio
Rush is a Billionaire he would never see a day in jail, this America.[/list][/list]
enriquesanchez · 07/29/2011 10:48 AM in reply to Carl Ellis
Carl Ellis: You're response is so typical... of alien life forms that have littered the landscape of America for +500 years. Always spewing hateful manure.[/list]
Richard Nixon 2012 · 07/29/2011 12:18 AM
Only reason mom wants the tape is so she can use it to sue and get a paycheck.Hopie · 07/29/2011 08:00 AM in reply to Richard Nixon 2012
Really? Were it a child of yours put into jail for possession of "a small amount of marijuana" and died.OnLine · 07/29/2011 11:28 PM in reply to Richard Nixon 2012
so? the kid went in breathing, and came out in a box, she should drag them through the streets.jim444 · 07/30/2011 07:57 AM in reply to Richard Nixon 2012
Is that such a bad thing? That's the least they can do. She lost her child.I feel awful for her.I feel awful for you too,because you are a very sad and sick person to say what you said.[/list]
MIAMIVICING · 07/29/2011 06:14 AM
Great rule. This allows the families to capitalize on early moneys, due to effects of supply and demand of these videos for the media, who then heralds and exposes these wonderful acts. Then you sue these dumps run by nazi rednecks. I love it.Steph Rendon · 07/29/2011 08:34 AM
she will do what any mother would do if put in that situation.OnLine · 07/29/2011 11:27 PM in reply to Steph Rendon
agree.[/list]
vic1 · 07/29/2011 10:08 AM
If a person knows that 911 needs to be called then what is stopping that person from calling 911 if he or she is really concerned....there is no logic in that statement.
I think the law prohibiting the public from obtaining the video is not right because that prevents public scrunity of a public official.
Most likely the state was negligent in his death. The state is negligent the majority of the time when it comes to abuse and the death of a child in Florida.creator · 07/29/2011 04:26 PM
IN CA WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ARRESTED
WE JUS LIVE IN DA BACK WOODSOnLine · 07/29/2011 11:25 PM in reply to creator
We are not in"CA", why are you here?[/list]
William Keeley · 07/29/2011 10:59 PM
I hope the mother sues and wins at least 12 million dollars. This should help the D.J.J. change its behavior. $12 million dollars is about a week's worth of budget for the Department of Juvenile "Justice." If the state decides to fight the award, it should also be held responsible for both sides' legal fees on top of the award.
It is time to change the D.J.J.'s behavior in how it treats kids in its custody. The D.J.J.'s budget should not be increased to offset the award either. My pay was not increased to offset a speeding fine I received. If I were to take my case to (a kangaroo) court, I would have to pay court costs on top of my fine.
When I was caught speeding, it costs me a weeks pay even though I harmed absolutely nobody for driving over the speed limit. The officer told me that the fine is to change my behavior. The state's behavior in this case caused actual harm. What's the state considers appropriate for citizens should be appropriate for its agencies.OnLine · 07/29/2011 11:26 PM in reply to William Keeley
I hope she wins also, but I don't agree with your comparison.[/list]
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