The following statement was written by Harold Hempstead, the 'Caged Crusader' of Florida, from a prison in Tennessee on 2nd April, 2017 and first published today on his blog -
Question: Was there any evidence of intent to harm
Darren Rainey?
Dade County State
Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says “No.”
What does the evidence
show?
1) Several inmates said the water in the shower
Rainey was murdered in got very, very hot.
Some said the water temperature in the shower exceeded 180°. Several inmates said Dade C.I. staff placed
inmates in the shower as punishment, and staff use to turn the water on full
hot with no cold while the inmates were in it.
Several inmates also said they were placed in the shower as
punishment. This was the same shower
Rainey was killed in.
2) The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC)
has a procedure called ‘Forced Hygiene Compliance Procedure.’ If Rainey wiped feces on himself and was
refusing to shower, Dade C.I. staff were required to follow this
procedure. They didn’t follow this procedure
because their intent was to harm Rainey and not to help him, because he was
being a headache to them. This procedure
required them to get approval from the Duty Warden and Psychiatrist before
placing Rainey in the shower, staff would’ve had to use a hand-held video
camera to record all their actions and Rainey’s actions while doing Forced
Hygiene Compliance and the Duty Warden and a nurse would’ve had to been present
through the whole process. These things
would’ve prevented Dade C.I. staff from placing Rainey in the shower they
placed him in to punish him and that eventually killed him.
3) Rainey wasn’t placed in any of the 6
operating showers in Wing J1 where he was housed. He was placed in a shower in another wing
that he wasn’t housed in, on a night inmates in the TCU weren’t supposed to be
in any showers. He was placed in the
only operating shower in the TCU that was in a blind-spot, that mounted
security cameras in Wing J3 couldn’t view.
4) Dade C.I. staff who tested the water in the shower
Rainey was killed in said the water temperature exceed 180° which was
approximately 55 to 60° hotter than what FDC’s Environmental Health and Safety
Manual mandated it could be. There was
no lawful or logical reason for the water temperature in the shower Rainey was
murdered in to be so hot. The only
possible reason it was so hot was to punish mentally disabled inmates that
refused to follow staffs’ orders.
5) Rainey was unsupervised and in the shower for
approximately 2 hours as a form of punishment.
6) If staff were trying to shower Rainey, how
come they placed him in the only shower in the TCU that he could avoid the
water in? Rainey wouldn’t have been able
to avoid the water in any of the ten other working showers in the TCU. The obvious and only possible reason Rainey
was placed in the only shower in the TCU that he could avoid the water in was
because he wasn’t placed in that shower to shower. Rainey was placed in that shower as
punishment and that is why he was placed in the only shower in the TCU that
reached temperatures in excess of 180°.
7) Officer Roland Clarke or any of the other
Dade C.I. staff didn’t take Rainey out of the shower even though he continued
to yell and kick the shower door asking to get out (because of how hot it was
in the shower.) If they weren’t trying
to harm him they would’ve took him out of the shower when he was pleading to
get out of the shower.
8) In the state’s own report that I have, Dade
C.I. staff and medical staff that were working on the night Rainey was murdered
said his skin was burned.
9) Dade C.I. Captain Dixon who tested the water
temperature in the shower (according to the State Attorney) said the water was
tested at 160 degrees.
How many times have the
people of America heard obvious lies and twisting of facts by those who don’t
want to prosecute when a black man is killed by a law enforcement
official? It is a sad thing that Dade
State Attorney Ms Rundle has chose to not uphold justice but instead let Rainey’s
killer (Roland Clarke) go free.
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with your friends. If you know anybody
that can aid in getting justice for Rainey, please share this blog with
them. Please sign our petition on
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Caged Crusader
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