In all this #occupy madness, I lost track of posting about the article I reported this week on the sad, unsatisfying end of the case of Kyeron Fair.
Fair was a 17-year-old North Portlander when he was arrested for his role in an armed robbery of a medical marijuana user last year—his acceptance of a plea deal this week closes the case officially. But the family is still left with its most important questions unanswered. When Fair had a mental health crisis upon entering custody, he wound up being Tasered multiple times and handcuffed to a hospital bed at OHSU for 20 days with no contact with his family besides a daily phone call. He was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The scary thing is that, in Fair’s case, the justice system worked that way it was legally supposed to. A 1,100-page inquiry into Fair’s treatment found no criminal wrongdoing. Everyone from the jailers to the hospital staff followed legal protocol. The fact that emerges from Fair’s case is that the legal protocol is horrifying and inhumane. When a 17-year-old has a mental breakdown in custody, there must be a better way to treat them than shackles, Tasers, and cutting off family contact. A big part of this has to do with the dismantling of our mental health system—the largest providers of mental healthcare in the state are our jails and prisons. Fair’s case shows exactly why that’s a problem.
Armed robber gets no sympathy. Had he not been caught, he would have continued until he was caught or shot.
You really think he’s that redeemable, put your money where your mouth is and be his adopted big sister. When he gets out you can put him up.
I’m also sure that I too would have a mental breakdown after I got caught and realized I had screwed up and made shit decisions.
Fry him, the community would be better off.
Then to the next candidate for public hazard dirt-bag.
Just sayin
Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
hard to say what really happened in these instances, and sure, cops and the hands of law are on power trips and abuse it. But “mental health crisis” sounds like he developed an acute disease, which is probably not the case; he probably reacted like shit, making things worse.
Getting locked , up, especially for the first time in yer life, would do it to you I imagine.
I hope his buddies learned a lesson from this too.
Maybe I’ve become hard hearted, but I find it difficult to have sympathy for him.
Typical and predicable that the “tough-on-crime” shit talkers would chime in here. FACT is, nothing’s been PROVEN against him. Cops just came and snatched him out of school one day. He’s probably fucking innocent. But even if he were guilty, he NEVER recieved proper due process. Sure, he pleaded out, only b/c he had no decent defense and the cards were stacked against him.
The ONLY goddamn reason Kyeron is sitting in jail now is b/c he’s poor! NOT b/c he committed any crime.
You as always are a douche 🙂 /cheers.
If that kid came to me and tried to hold me up, aka armed robbery, I’d have no hesitation to put him down. As its pretty clear that he has no issue with threatening someone over property that he wants.
>”The ONLY goddamn reason Kyeron is sitting in jail now is b/c he’s poor! NOT b/c he committed any crime”
You are a jackass DamonA. Consistent and regular. Or just a self absorbed idiot.
The kid stole pot with a weapon cause he’s poor? He was charged with a crime cause he’s poor? He freaked out cause he was faced with reality and we should cry him a river, cause he’s poor? Maybe he should have sold his kicks, ipod, or fancy phone and bought a bag of weed.
I work every day, often for jobs that others would pass up. I am poor. I would never take from another unless I was starving. Apparently young mr Sadstory was starving for tokes and took the easy way.
He is fail and should pay the piper.
You should just abort yourself LOL
Judging by your petty insults and BRAVE personal attacks, i’d say you probably don’t know shit on the issue. Nice to see another ignorant sheep staunchly defend a thuroughly racist and brutal so-called “judicial” system. Great job being PART of the problem.
To add, your gun-ho eagerness to demonize a young black kid whose guilt has NOT been proven, who was subsequently brutalized and abused by said system speaks VOLUMES to a nasty bright red streak of racism on YOUR part.
You sir are white knighting someone you dont know. Do you?
Calling me a racist cause I dont fall in line with your BS?
You are a douche. NO color in that.
Do the crime, do the time. Dont cry about it. Do the crime with a weapon, and expect the WORST.
Holy lord, people on here were right. You are a total fuckhead LOL
Again I dont care what color or lack of it he is, or you are. Why dont you contribute to his funds if you feel so strongly about it? Oh cause you mr Big talker cry baby.
And just how in the fuck do YOU know that he committed ANY crime to begin with? Yeah, fucking racist prick. Typical!
Typical? They didnt round him up randomly because of his appearance. Although articulate, you obviously didn’t follow up on the details. Just shoot your mouth off like a bottom bunk punk.
You know nothing of my diversity. You throw the race card because I expect a douche-bag who was a armed robber to not get special treatment than any other prisoner would get.
Boo freaking hoo.
If a fucking martian tried to rob me with a weapon, I’d go to deadly force without a second thought, DGIAF about their problems or experience. Their choice just infringed on my peace; that is the essence of the issue. Responsibility. This man, at 17 you are a man, freaked out when reality creeped in that his choice put him there and there’s no toughing your way out of it.
Report showed that he assaulted the staff, was uncooperative, and was verbally abusive. What a fucking moron to rattle the cage when he’s in custody.
It’s the choices that you make that define you, or end you in this case.
So, you call the racist? You sir are the racist looking for validation. Now that you’ve got my attention, douche-bag fuck-face loser, I will be writing the prosecutors office to encourage them to follow the process and the law. I would have stayed out of this further than the forum, but your fuckery has convinced me that a citizen should use his voice for the good of the community.
I suggest you STFU and start a fund to help the little shit-for-brains. So he can get out and do something stupid, perhaps really injure someone next time.
Eat a bag of shit, race card throwing loser.
@Baal – Sorry you had to meet Damos. It’s best just to ignore him…he only wants to get you upset. Manipulating people makes him feel less of a worthless, insignificant loser for a little bit.
It’s nice to see you two sticking together, so that you can back each other up. I guess you need the extra support when you’re WRONG, huh?