Results of a grand jury investigation released Monday show that an Orange County sheriff's deputy watched TV and sent text messages while jail inmates beat a fellow prisoner to death.And a slaughterhouse is where the government will send you or me if they catch us violating one of their disarmament edicts and don't just kill us outright. It's where they've sent Rick Stanley and Wayne Fincher.
We don't exploit this simple fact enough: if "The Only Ones" can't protect people who are in their direct custody, how on earth can anyone seriously maintain they will protect people who aren't?