Joe arpaio has blood on his hands; when will enough be enough?
Raymond Manuel Farinas, 40, died after posting bail on June 11th.
Another day, another death in the Maricopa County jail system. Following the recent murder (let’s call it what it is) of inmate Marty Atencio , Raymond Farinas, an inmate at the 4th Avenue Jail has died in custody, and the MCSO is saying that he choked on peanut butter:
Ramirez said she was told that her son choked on a peanut butter sandwich, but she said he never would have eaten peanut butter. "My son never ate peanut butter, he was allergic."Pretty shitty attempt at a cover up from Sheriff Joe and crew. And since we’ve already established that they’ve told a lie about the nature of Farinas’s death, the only question that remains is if he died at the hands of a Detention Officer, or if his death was the result of negligence on the part of corrections staff. The culture of dehumanization and degradation that I documented in my previous post is the direct contributor to the pattern of inmate abuse, mistreatment and death in the Maricopa County jail system. This man did not deserve to die – and this mother did not deserve to lose her son. Only in an unjust society could someone’s life be so devalued. I’m not really sure what to say outside of that, other than I that on a personal note, I keep thinking that this could have been me. This isn’t right. Joe Arpaio’s continued human rights violations will be a decades long shame upon the face of this state and Maricopa County.
Ramirez claims when she was allowed to see her son's body, it was covered in bruises. "He was all bruised like they had taken him and beaten him with something. He had a cut on his forehead."
