USE OF FORCE UPDATE FOR JULY 2, 2007

On July 2, 2007, I refused to abnegate F-section dayroom for F-Pod. Sgt. Youngblood gave me a direct order to climb off the dayroom bars. The nature and vulgarity of her voice was disrespectful. I climbed down the bars and attempted to approach Sgt. Youngblood on the situation with the mail.

The mail has arrived to inmates weeks from the day it was postmarked. Numerous inmates have continuously brought this issue to the mailroom and ranking officers to no avail. On several occasions pieces of letters have come up missing from the mailroom and whole letters have vanished. Mail has still been arriving late after bringing the issue to the administration.

As I addressed Sgt. Youngblood on the situation, she walked off and didn’t want to talk about it. Sgt. Youngblood is very unprofessional and tends to elevate situations instead of attempting to depress the situation as her job trains her to do. Sgt. Chote came to talk to me about what was going on with Sgt. Youngblood, but didn’t attempt to even look into the mail issue. I told him I didn’t want to talk if the mail issue wasn’t being looked into.

Lt. Price came and attempted to talk, but by that time they didn’t want to negotiate anymore.

30 minutes later, 5 men on the special emergency response team entered the pod with a guard controlling the camera and Sgt. Chote and Lt. Price with the chemical warfare. I was ordered 1 time to “submit to a strip-search and hand restraints or chemical agents and a 5 man extraction team will be used.” I obeyed the first order, relinquished the dayroom, submitted to the strip-search and hand restraints. After I was cuffed, I sat down refusing to walk. Leg irons were applied and the 5-man team picked me up and carried me to my cage.

I came out of the use of force with no ijuries,, but wasn’t asked by a nurse if I had any, as procedure states.

Lt. Price has chosen to deprive me of my lunch tray and shower to the use of force. This clearly violates rule 23 of the TDCJ “Execution Directive” PD-21: Employees General Rules of Conduct stating “Mistreatment of inmates/clients or others: Mistreatment usually takes the form of physical abuse, but may also include such actions as threats, unauthorized or illegal denial of privileges, entitlement, etc.”

TDCJ rules also state that an inmate is to be fed 3 meals a day, and a sack lunch can be substituted for a hot meal. I received neither due to Lt. Price’s decision not to feed me.

This protest will continue until the mail goal is achieved!

D.R.I.V.E. ON!!

D.R.I.V.E.

DEATH Row INNER-COMMUNALIST VANGUARD ENGAGEMENT