Unnatural Causes, Update redux:

posted by The Vidiot @ 7:57 PM Permalink

We've covered this before here , and here but the case reaches a new low. Instead of admitting he took one for the team the ME continues lying in the face of facts.

This would almost be funny ... if it wasn't an excuse for killing a 14 year old kid. This 'doctor' is maintaining that the child's death had nothing to do with the videotaped beating he suffered:

"My conclusion, based on more than a decade of practice, is that the exertion from exercise triggered Mr. Anderson’s sickle cell trait which caused Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC), resulting in hemorrhaging," Dr. Charles Siebert said in a statement.

And again this would almost be funny ... no, this could never be funny. If anyone wonders how the abuses at Gitmo or Abu Ghraib could happen, it's because this is how we treat our own prisoners:

The five guards shown on the surveillance video were involved in at least 63 other instances using knee strikes, hammer-fist blows, 'pressure point' restraints and other physical encounters with detainees, according to Florida Department of Juvenile reports filed in 2004 and 2005.

It gets so much worse. The kid collapsed, and how did the guards respond?

"I ordered offender Anderson to stop resisting and relax his arms. When (he) refused to comply with those instructions, I applied a knee strike to his left thigh and escorted him to the ground," Garrett wrote. "After reaching the ground, I applied a bent wrist to offender Anderson’s left wrist for approximately 7 seconds."
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Garrett said the guards continued to "counsel" Anderson by applying knee strikes, pressure point blows and bending his wrists backward until he stopped responding.

They killed a kid. The nurse watched it happen. They aren't in jail.

Whether it's the Army, the White House or a juvenile facility in Florida, the buck stops long before the bucks stop.