2-10-2015
Can you imagine being arrested on a minor charge, stripped naked and put into a solitary jail cell for a week with nothing in it?
Can you imagine being slapped in the head by a corrections officer because you didn’t comply with an order that you didn’t understand?
Can you image having five men dressed like Ninja warriors wearing football-like helmets with visors attempting to violently tie you to a chair?
Can you imagine voltage from a Taser being shot into your body not once, not twice, not three times, but four times until your body goes into cardiac arrest?
Can you imagine being rushed by EMTs to a hospital where your urine soaked body looks so horrific that the emergency room crew is sickened by what they witness?
This is not some tale of torture filtering from Abu Ghraib prison.
All of this happened last week here in Fairfax County, Virginia, a wealthy suburb of Washington D.C. where elected officials have stuck their heads in the sand when it comes to facing what now is being revealed as our grim reality.