The following email was sent on 10th January 2019:
Attn: Dade County – Florida – State Attorney
Dade County – Florida – Medical Examiner
Dear Dade County State Attorney and Dade County Medical Examiner
Harold Hempstead has published a book entitled “Department of Corruption – Darren Rainey – The Untold Story” – His book can be located at Crusaderbooks dot com – In his book he explains in extensive detail how he obtained covert recordings of Roland Clarke admitting to killing Darren Rainey and torturing mentally disabled inmates in the Dade CI Transitional Care Unit – The March 17 – 2017 State Attorney-s memo doesn-t mention these recordings that Hempstead wrote about in his book – Also it should be noted that Hempstead said he has access to the covert recordings that he obtained – Will you please let me know why you didn-t mention these recordings in your memo~ Will you also let me know how the Medical Examiner could say what she said about Rainey-s body when Hempstead said Roland Clarke admitted that the shower was “extremely hot” on the records~
Will you please respond to these questions as soon as possible~
Sincerely –
Harold Hempstead
CC
Howard Simon
Steve Wetstein
Randal Berg
Casey Frank
Julie Brown
Adam Playford
Craig Patrick
Susan Chandler
Windy Hempstead
Roland Clarke leading Darren Rainey to his death in the torture-shower - Dade CI
Mathew Teague - The Guardian Newspaper - London - England
Reprieve and Amnesty International - International Justice Organs
Dear Julie Jones and Florida officials -
I am writing to you as I am extremely worried about the medical condition of Florida inmate Anthony Bellido-Carbonell (# D31307) - A tumor was found in this man-s leg one year ago - The leg has recently turned black and is losing sensation - these are typical gangrene symptoms - I implore you to ensure that he receives immediate and appropriate medical care for this disease which is threatening his limb and quite possibly his life -
I do not know what crime this man committed but he is entitled to medical care as a fundamental legal right and I ask you sincerely to expedite this urgently before his condition worsens -
A lot of activism involves letter-writing and in some circumstances it is still an effective method of pushing for change - It has the advantage of possibly prompting a response and also letters can be published which makes them powerful evidence in some cases (and helps get a response - especially if you can get them into the newspapers!) - Even if emailing and writing to politicians and decision-makers had little effect on them I think it would still be worth doing - for documentary purposes if nothing else - So that activists can show that they have exhausted all reasonable routes of redress before considering direct-action -
The problem is that when MPs and Chief Constables and various other people in positions of influence simply ignore written approaches to discuss policy they are seriously undermining democracy and forcing people to consider other ways to progress their causes - This particularly applies to MPs who-s job is to represent the people and to the police who must be accountable to those they serve and protect - This brings us back full-circle to the topic of medical neglect in the Florida Department of Corrections - When exonerated British citizen Krishna Maharaj was infected with flesh-eating bacterial disease in the Florida prison system that has wrongly held him for 30 years I made repeated attempts to ask my representative in the democracy - my MP - to ask the British Foreign Secretary (also a Conservative Party member) to speak to the Florida government in Tallahassee and get appropriate medical aid for Mr Maharaj my MP - Derek Thomas - ignored me - He ignored my phone messages - my emails - letters - everything! He was quite happy to let Krishna Maharaj literally rot away in a foreign jail - knowing that he might lose his leg - or quite likely die - without immediate treatment - As far as I-m concerned - officials who neglect their duty to respond to the public are in breach of the social contract - When enough people consider the social contract to be broken it has to be re-written -
The pictures of James Clark-s severely mutilated hand are hard to look at - So is the footage of him being muscled into a British Police station by several burly constables - without due process of being booked in - and severely assaulted in a cell in Llanelli - Wales on 20th June 2016 after he was arrested following a complaint from a neighbour over noise during a domestic dispute -
The videos do not show him being threatened with a stun-gun - in contravention of the United Nations Convention Against Torture - and neither do they show him being gassed with chemical irritant - both these weapons were turned on Mr Clark during his physical subjugation and legal arrest by the squad - (18th December 2017: CORRECTION: It has emerged that Mr Clark was NOT sprayed with irritant - this lie was spread by The Sun - Britain-s foulest newspaper - I apologize for any confusion caused by this)
They do show what happened after the man had been stripped naked and seriously worked-over by several large law-upholders - When they finally dismount him and leave him alone he goes to the door and it is slammed on his fingers - again - the film is very hard to watch - be warned -
There are certain inescapable similarities with so many other cases - Jordan Begley of Manchester - Andrew Pimlott of Plymouth - Marc Cole of Falmouth amongst others - police are called to what is often a potentially-controllable emotional-crisis and it ends in death or serious injury due to excessive and quite unnecessary use of force - In so many of these cases there seems little or no attempt to de-escalate a volatile situation but rather a gang of heavies wades in and starts throwing their weight around - (as with Sean Rigg for example)
Happily this is not always the case and my respect goes out to all police men and women who act with discretion and humanity when upholding the law - I have no problem with proper police-activity but will vigorously expose and oppose corruption and violence whenever I encounter it - This is one of the rights my family fought wars for and I am happy to enjoy my freedom as much as possible - Sadly my actual right of democratic representation has been violated and abandoned by my lying rogue-MP Derek Thomas but I am at least free to write - publish and speak my mind in public -
I only heard about what happened to James Clark today and will be publishing more about his case in the near future - The kind of police-behaviour described here is precisely what gives police a bad image in the public eye and undermines all the efforts of every good cop in the nation - Llanelli Police might inspire fear or perhaps contempt amongst the public they are paid to serve - but have they settled for the public-s fear at the cost of the respect that police can achieve when they act properly?
Notes:
James Clark had to battle the "authorities" to get hold of the film-evidence from the police-cells that they wanted to suppress from public attention -
It is typical in Britain - as elsewhere - in cases where police assault citizens for the victim to then be accused of assaulting the police - as I can verify from the personal experience of a British citizen whom I interviewed in a previous case -
If James Clark assaulted a cop in front of several other cops as they claimed - why did the court believe otherwise and find otherwise - why were the police-s statements "inconsistent?"
Mr Clark was not booked-in on arrival at the police station as is customary and lawful but was forced along to the cells in a headlock - police were wearing blue rubber globes - a typical sign of impending police-violence -
After the savage assault was over three of James Clark-s fingers lay on the floor of the police station - This reminds me strongly of the case of Darren Rainey - the black Muslim man who was tortured to death by the State of Florida on 23rd June 2012 and whose skin was scraped off the floor and thrown into the trash - a similar disregard for basic humanity is demonstrated in both cases
The hours-long delay in getting Mr Clark the urgent medical attention required after finger-amputation is obviously another grave crime by the police -
The fact that the police committed the assault knowing the camera was watching suggests to me that they acted on an assumption of impunity -
WHY DID THE COPS STRIP HIM NAKED?
WHY DID A GANG OF THEM ABUSE AND BATTER HIM?
WHY DID THEY LEAVE HIM SCREAMING IN AGONY ISOLATED IN A CELL WITH THREE FINGERS MISSING WHEN THEIR DUTY WAS TO PROTECT HIS WELL-BEING?
WHY HAVE THESE THUGS BEEN ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS AND CARRY ON AS PUBLIC SERVANTS? WHAT KIND OF MONSTROSITY IS THIS? BBC News report on the attack on James Clark
50,000 (fifty thousand) volts into a human, from a taser, yet the authorities still quibble over 'cause of death' in so many cases! Vacillation by politicians of the Big T'ree (Lib-Lab-Con have all evaded discussion on the status of the UNCAT,) has contributed to ongoing deaths and torture on adults, the vulnerable and the young, by police taser in the UK. The Green Party and Mebyon Kernow have both given me statements saying they support my assertion that taser violates UNCAT. Conservative Member of Parliament Derek Thomas in particular has been lying to me and dodging this issue for nearly a decade now, as is the Tory way...
The recent death of Falmouth man Marc Cole (30) brought the issue of taser back into stark focus here in Cornwall - Marc was the first person in Cornwall to die after being hit by a police stun-gun.
After Falmouth police repeatedly tortured Stefan Naumczyk with a stun-gun during a 'royal street-party,' I tried to register a complaint of torture. He was stunned, cuffed, then stunned again, in front of a large crowd. This constitutes torture - in my book, and also in the book of law... The police's lying response to me that they could not hear my complaint eventually led me to communicate with the U.N. in Geneva, which is how I discovered that Britain had not ratified Article 22 of the UNCAT which would have allowed UN Investigators into the realm. Thanks for the tip, Falmouth Police, I'd never have found out without you!
Due to corruption at all levels in the British State, my MP has totally failed to fulfill his on-camera promise to raise the UNCAT Article 22 Ratification issue with the British Government. This has stalled any progress on the issue and been a major contributory factor in the unlawful slaughter of Marc Cole by these policemen. My MP, Derek Thomas, also claims to be a Christian, but won't lift a finger to save an old man, a British citizen proven innocent, from dying of flesh-eating bacteria in a vile foreign jail, namely Krishna Maharaj, who languishes in the Florida Department of Corrections.
Soft-Tipped, a.k.a. Dum-Dum Rounds, a.k.a. Hollow-Tipped Bullets have been banned in warfare by international law since at least World War One. That didn't stop police in Falmouth, Cornwall from slaughtering Antony Kitts with one, back on 10th April, 1999. These rounds cause massive internal damage, because they expand as they go through a person, thus ripping out a much bigger tunnel than a typical bullet. Not legal to use on enemies in wartime, but legal for the British Police to use for culling troublesome citizens in the streets.
"The use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use," the UN Committee said in a statement, November 2007.
My letter of 13th June, 2017, to the Commanding Officer of Police for Cornwall and Devon, UK:
Public message to:Chief Constable Shawn Sawyer, Cornwall & Devon Pol., Mrs. F.Wills, Complaints Dept., 13.6.2017 RE: RESIST CARDIAC ARREST CAMPAIGN / ILLEGAL INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE & DEATH
C.C. United Nations, Geneva; Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party Leader; Richard Burgon, Shadow Minister of Justice; Dick Cole, Mebyon Kernow; Andrew George; Julie Girling MEP; Danette Chavis, National Action Against Police Brutality and Murder; Amnesty International; The Guardian newspaper, The Independent Newspaper, The Cornishman newspaper; BBC Radio Cornwall; etc.
Dear Chief Cons.Sawyer and Mrs F.Wills,
I am rather surprised to receive a letter from you asking why I am unhappy with police using stun-guns on humans when your constables have recently burned a man to death in public and now slaughtered another young man in the streets of Falmouth, Cornwall.
Strange as it may seem to some, the average citizen is not too happy with cops that publicly burn citizens to death with illegal weapons of torture or kill people with 50,000 volts when they are having emotional crises.
I've requested that you seek clarification with the British Government (if we have one) and the United Nations, as the rightful, lawful and legal authorities who can clarify the legal status of the x-26 stun gun for you.
You have not responded to me, Chief Constable.
Please do so urgently.
I shall be further clarifying my complaint to you in writing within your statutory complaints period of three weeks.
Further to my original communique, would you please inform me whether Marc Cole's bereaved and grieving family have been offered a Liaison Officer from your department yet? This question was not answered by you.
Please let me know as soon as possible what the United Nations and the British Government have told you about the X-16 being defined in international law as an INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE by the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Lisbon in 2007.
Please do not ignore this communication but respond to it fully in accordance with your lawful responsibilities.
Yours sincerely,
Jeremy Sch@nche
Newlyn, Kernow, Britain.
When I wrote to Chief Constable Sean Sawyer about the above, he passed it the IPCC - this is their response.
The IPCC is the 'Independent Police Complaints Commission,' which, I have to say, has a notorious record for either bungling investigations, or basically functioning as the police's alibi-department. A frequent technique of the police is to use the IPCC as a kind of shield, granting them protection and an aura of 'justice.' The so-called 'watch-dog' lives in a kennel adjoining the police-station and seems to live on scraps thrown to it from said building.
I believe that Marc Cole's family had an experience when they contacted police about Marc's death, only to have the matter described as a 'complaint' and referred to the IPCC, who did not respond satisfactorily. The same thing happened to me when I approached Cornwall's Chief Constable about the matter recently. I pointed out the matter of the UN's ruling in 2007 that taser-usage constituted torture, and asked him to liaise with the government and the UN. He did neither, but merely referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, who responded in an unsatisfactory manner. They even said that I had not been affected by the killing of Marc Cole - how can anyone assume that?
There are ways to approach a person in emotional crisis, even in danger, that de-escalate and calm the situation. This takes a basic understanding of human psychology, in which our constables urgently need to be trained to avoid further unnecessary killings. Rather than 'portable electric-chairs' that zap the recipient with 50,000 or more volts, better to issue cudgels to the constabulary, for surely two big strong cops with broom-sticks could easily floor a citizen who's out of order and borderline violent, without inducing cardiac arrest and putting a temporarily unruly citizen and father of young children into a permanent grave.
Tasers are undemocratic, murderous, torturous, illegal cattle-prods that have no legitimate, or even vaguely legal, human use. They also cause cancer in those who use them, as found by the State of California. It's time for genuine debate on how society protects itself from violence, without going to the other extreme and taking the current 'overkill' approach. I appreciate the protection of the police in this quasi-free society and am under no illusions about street violence, but I contend that if policing is claimed to be done by consent, then that claim has to be proven by those who make it, if they wish to retain the 'democratic' image.
Jeremy Sch@nche, 26..9.2017
Marc Cole of Falmouth.
Derek Thomas MP lies on camera about protecting the People from state-torture. Good old tories!
"Over the approximately two years I worked in the Dade C.I. Transitional Care Unit (TCU) I discovered that one of the most common forms of unlawful punishment Dade C.I. staff subjected mentally disabled inmates to was denying the patients food. It was very common on all the shifts to deny inmates one to three of their meals a day. Dozens of security staff used to commonly do the foregoing. There were times I seen twenty to twenty-five inmates denied a meal in one day. This caused a lot of inmate-patients to lose large quantities of weight in the TCU in short periods of time. In two of my other blogs, I explained how Oscar Davis and Darrell Richardson, I believed, died from medical problems associated with being denied large quantities of food/starved over long periods of time. The Miami Herald newspaper referenced Dade C.I. TCU mentally disabled inmates being denied large quantities of food as punishment in several of the articles they published. In April, 2016 The New Yorker magazine published an article entitled ‘Madness’ which also mentions the foregoing. George Mallinckrodt who was a counsellor in the Dade C.I. TCU spoke about inmate-patients being denied large quantities of food in his book ‘Getting Away With Murder.’ This long-term abuse/torturing by denying mentally disabled inmates large quantities of food/starvation was happening in the same Dade C.I. TCU Darren Rainey was murdered in.
Harold Hempstead, a.k.a. The Caged Crusader, Tennessee D.C. May 2017 -------------------------------------------- Notes: C.I. stands for Correctional Institution. TCU means Transitional Care Unit. The picture of the starving prisoner is from the American Civil War, over 150 years ago. Seemingly little has changed and prisoners are still being starved in US prisons to this day.
"In the last twenty-seven years of my life I’ve had a lot of communications with State and Federal agencies (not as a suspect) in more administrative and criminal investigations than I can remember. Over these twenty-seven years I’ve learned that law enforcement agencies highly favor polygraph and voice-stress testing as investigative tools to test the credibility of their own staff, witnesses, suspects and those who aid them in investigations. I’ve never been placed on a polygraph test over these years, but I have been administered voice-stress testing several times. Also, over these last eighteen years of my life I’ve read several criminal cases where law enforcement agencies used these types of testing for investigative purposes. Since Darren Rainey’s murder, I’ve asked the Dade County State Attorney’s Office, Miami-Dade Police Department, and Florida Department of Corrections several times to polygraph or voice-stress test me on the things I told them concerning Darren Rainey’s murder.
These agencies consistently refused to do the foregoing, even though they each have the equipment to conduct said tests and the people trained in administering these tests. In other words, they don’t have to hire somebody to administer these tests.
Why do you think they consistently refused to polygraph or voice-stress test me concerning the things I told them about the Darren Rainey murder? I believe they refused to do the foregoing because they knew beyond all doubt what I told them was the truth about Rainey’s murder and if they tested me, I’d be able to use the results from the test against them to push for a prosecution of those who killed Rainey.
My 2013 FDC Inmate Grievances I filed on Rainey’s murder also document me asking to be polygraphed or voice-stress tested on what I said concerning Rainey’s murder. Why didn’t these agencies polygraph or voice-stress test the Dade C.I. staff that killed Rainey and that were working on the night Rainey was killed? I believe because these agencies knew those who killed Darren Rainey and the Dade C.I. staff that were working on the night Rainey was killed, were lying.
Since these agencies have refused to polygraph or voice-stress test me, I’m asking for your help. I believe if I can get anybody to polygraph or voice-stress test me, I can use the results of my testing, to further prove a cover-up, corruption and racism in the Darren Rainey murder case. I’m absolutely positive I can pass a polygraph or voice-stress test concerning the things I said on the Darren Rainey murder. If you’re reading this blog and you have the ability to polygraph or voice-stress test me, or arrange to have somebody administer one of these tests to me, will you please contact my friend Jeremy who manages this blog and tell him you’d like to help me with this matter? Because I’m in prison, I have several restrictions placed on me. Any law enforcement or State or Federal agency can administer one of these tests to me. The only other people who can obtain authorization to have one of these tests administered to me are private investigators or contractors, lawyers and the media. With the proper paperwork, any person can hire a private investigator or contractor to administer one of these tests to me. If you can help me, I’d really appreciate it. Also, if you can help me, think about your help as being a way of aiding in the fight for justice for the murder of Darren Rainey and as a way of aiding in the fight for the value of life. The people I personally know and I, can’t make arrangements to have me receive one of these tests, because if we paid for me to receive one of these tests, people could say the person who gave me the test was bias in favor of my view of things. I want an unbias tester to administer me one of these tests. Please share this blog with your friends and anybody you believe would like to join us in our fight for the value of life. Please sign our petition on Change.org entitled THE LIFE OF BLACK, MENTALLY DISABLED MUSLIM PRISONER DARREN RAINEY DOES MATTER."
Harold Hempstead, a.k.a. ‘The Caged Crusader,’ May Day (1st of May) 2017, Tennessee Department of Corrections, USA.
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IS FLORIDA HIDING FROM THE TRUTH ON THE DARREN RAINEY CASE?
Criminal justice regularly uses current technology to prove or disprove allegations in criminal investigations. Sometimes the use of such technology can be controversial, as in the numerous cases of falsified human DNA evidence that has been used by Florida’s various corrupted agencies to send innocent people to their deaths - often fitted up by the police to ‘solve’ murder cases.
One form of technology that is remarkably reliable and valid however is the polygraph or so called ‘lie-detector’ test. When the key-witness in an ultra-controversial state-killing asks for the opportunity to prove the truth of his testimony, using the hardware that the tax-payers have entrusted the police and other authorities to use in the pursuit of justice - shouldn’t those authorities either jump at the chance to prove Harold Hempstead a liar (as they have gone to great lengths to impute) or prove him a true witness and start acting on the evidence he has risked his life for years to reveal?
To deny this avenue of truth and justice to the key-witness in a state-homicide is highly egregious and suspicious and this alone should arouse deep dismay and misgivings amongst those concerned with justice; but when you add this fact to the ever-growing mountain of similar facts, observations and witnessings from Harold Hempstead, that are accumulating on his blog-site, I am left with one glaring conclusion - the state effectively tortured Darren Rainey to death and the state is now desperately trying to conceal, bury and deny the truth about Florida Department of Corrections - the systemic torture, the policy of starvation unto death, the super-heated torture-chamber, the taunting of the most extremely mentally disturbed until they are driven to hang themselves as a better alternative to staying in the Dade C.I. Transitional ‘Care’ Unit… in short, dear readers, the Crimes Against Humanity.
"The Dade County, Florida State Attorney’s Office contended that on the night Darren Rainey was killed, a sheet was covering my cell door window at different times so I allegedly wasn’t able to see everything I said I seen. They don’t contest that I seen certain things, just that the ‘sheet’ allegedly prohibited me from seeing everything.
I found from many years of experience that people in society who’ve never been incarcerated in Florida and/or have no knowledge of the life of the incarcerated, are not aware of a lot of things that would at first sound outrageous to them if they didn’t first inquire for more details. For instance, if I said I could be in a locked cell in a Confinement Unit with the whole wing of prisoners in their locked Confinement Cells and I could pass to other prisoners or obtain from other prisoners in their locked cells books, canteen items, clothes, writing supplies etc. without the help of any person outside the locked cells, most people in society would think that I was lying. Especially if I said it didn’t matter if I or the other prisoner(s) were on the first or second tier. Why would most think I was lying? Because they don’t know what ‘fishing’ is. If I said I could do the foregoing to anybody who was ever incarcerated in the Florida prison system (FDC,) they would know I could do such by ‘fishing.’ All Florida prisoners know what ‘fishing’ is.
What is ‘fishing.’ In order to know what ‘fishing’ is I’ll first have to tell you how we make ‘fishing lines’ and a ‘car.’
We make a ‘fishing line’ by taking thread out of a sheet, boxers, pants or shirt and tying all the strings together at their ends until we get our fishing line as long as we need it. We make a ‘car’ by emptying all the toothpaste out of a toothpaste tube, cutting off the side of the tube from about an inch under where the toothpaste comes out, filling the empty tube with soap powder filed from a bar of soap and mixed with water. We use the water to make the soap powder hard, the length and width of the tube and less than a quarter inch thick. We then tie the tube closed (with the hard soap powder in it) with one of the ends of the fishing line. We then have a ‘fishing line’ with a ‘car’ at the end of it. With the foregoing, I can be in my locked cell, hold on to one side of my fishing line and push my car under my cell door in the direction to and under another inmate’s locked cell door. We can then pass anything we want from my cell to his, or from his to mine, by tying it on the car or line. The more experience you have fishing, the better you get at it. We use ramps to fish from the upper tier to the lower tier. We fish in our vents, and even in our toilets. We fish out the top of our cell doors with wet toilet-paper balls we use to bounce off our cell doors until they fly upstairs. The list goes on and on.
I’m going to name just a few more things we do in prison but I’m not going to explain the details on these because I don’t have the space to do it.
Prisoners make wine from scratch.
Prisoners make wall-safes to hide their contraband, with screws and locks.
Prisoners can use a plastic mirror sold in the canteen to hide a cellphone or drugs in the water in a toilet. You can look in the toilet and not see it and the phone or drugs won’t be flushed away.
All these things sound strange to most people in society but if they were explained, like ‘fishing,’ they would then not sound so strange. When the Miami-Dade Police Department interviewed me in June 2014, they were too busy trying to limit me on what I could or couldn’t say instead of asking me how I could see. In June 2014 when I was interviewed I had been incarcerated for fifteen years straight. After fifteen straight years of incarceration it was only common sense to me that inmates can see out their cell doors with a sheet covering the window. Inmates placing sheets on their cell doors covering the windows is very common for inmates in Florida. We place sheets on our cell doors every time we use the bathroom and every time we want privacy for any reason. Having been incarcerated for fifteen years in June 2014, I had placed sheets on my cell doors one to five times a day every day for fifteen years straight. Inmates in the Florida prison system (FDC) are issued two bed-sheets a piece. Most inmates use one sheet to cover their bed and one sheet for the collar on their bed. The collar-sheet is also used to cover the cell door window, to cover the shower door when they shower, etc.. Since the collar-sheet is used for so many different things, inmates usually strive to keep that sheet clean. The more the sheet is washed, the thinner it gets. If you were to take any white sheet off your bed, cover a window with it, stand on one side of the sheet with the light off and look through the sheet into a room (or outside) that is full of light, you’ll be able to see everything on the other side (even if the white sheet is new). If the light is on in the room you’re in, and in the room on the other side of the sheet, you’ll still be able to see through the sheet.
Even though this is common sense, the Dade County, Florida State Attorney contended I couldn’t see through the white sheet I allegedly had hanging in my cell door at different times on the night Rainey was killed.
Not only was my sheet old, but it had been washed with bleach dozens if not hundreds of times. The MDPD and Miami Dade State Attorney never once mentioned a sheet on my cell door at specific times on the night Rainey was killed. I believe they never once questioned me about the foregoing because they had common sense to know anybody could see through a white sheet set up like I mentioned in this blog. I also believe the Dade County State Attorney has attempted to twist this common sense fact and try to get people to believe I (and anybody else) could never see through a white sheet how I present the matter herein.
This is just another matter that the Dade County State Attorney has attempted to twist in the Darren Rainey case. The Rainey case should send out a clear statement to the people of Dade County, Florida and the World that the Dade County State Attorney will do everything possible to let those who killed Rainey continue to walk the streets of Dade County, Florida as free men.
Harold Hempstead, a.k.a. Caged Crusader, a.k.a. 'Miami Harold', Tennessee Department of Corrections, April 2017.
I have a great deal more evidence from Harold to publish on the killing of Darren Rainey and other matters concerning FDC. Please follow this blog and share it widely. Also, please follow Harold's own blog which I administer for him. Please share it with anyone you know who cares about Human Rights. Thanks - Jeremy
30-year old Marc Cole - a painter from Falmouth who had a recent history of severe and enduring mental-illness - a severe condition of the brain called hydrocephalus and a family history of Bi-Polar Disorder died on 23rd May 2017 after being shot by Devon and Cornwall police with a Taser stun-gun when they were called out to attend a mental-health-crisis - Mr Cole is the first person in Cornwall to die after being stunned with a taser -
Letter to: The Cornishman newspaper Cornwall, Britain and other press, 29:5:17
Dear Editor,
I was extremely distressed to hear that 30 year old Marc Cole, a painter from Falmouth died on Tuesday 23rd May, having cut himself in the street and been shot by police with a taser stun-gun.
Over the last seven years I've had a lot of communication about tasers with the police, government, UN and human rights organisations. The law around tasers is something I have touched on with Derek Thomas MP, who has kept me waiting eleven months for a response.
As a citizen of a democracy, I expect my representatives to engage in discussion with me over the issue of arming our police. I agree with the UN that the taser is not safe for street-use. As I've watched the taser-fatalities accumulate in this country, I'd imagine the relatives of the deceased might agree with me. Safer weapons are available. May we as a people discuss this?
Sincerely,
Jeremy Schanche
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NOTICE:
I am very keen to speak to the family of Marc Cole, the man who was killed in the above incident. They can contact me at: save the holy headland at yahoo dot com - I'm a human-rights activist who has worked on taser-law issues for several years and would like to offer them any help I can give.
Jeremy Schanche
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note: since writing the above notice, I have made contact with the family of the man apparently killed by police in the street in Falmouth. If anyone else has been shot or threatened by police with a stun-gun, please contact me for free legal advice.
Please check out my in-depth investigation of everything related to taser RESIST CARDIAC ARREST written in 2010, when I launched my campaign against these illegal and vicious weapons of torure, having seen what was happening in the USA, where people were dying on a very regular basis from being shot with these weapons. The town of Falmouth, in West Cornwall, Great Britain, has played a very important part in the RCA campaign, as it was a previous incident of Falmouth police taser-torture that led to my communicating with the United Nations and learning about how Britain's politicians have lied to us since '85 on this issue. This is an interesting example of 'cause and effect,' or a 'chain of causality.'
Nutshell Version: tasers arrive in UK, RCA Campaign starts after death of Brian Loan, 1st fatality; UN Declaration says tasers are illegal instrument of torture; Brit Gov non-communication and evasion after many, many letters from me about legal basis of weapons; UNCAT never ratified as politicians won't go there or talk about it; police continue to stun-gun people; man dies in Cornwall, as predicted in 2010.
Tributes to Marc Cole from the community.
Please remember Marc Cole, 'Colsey' of Falmouth, Britain and his family, in this most distressing situation. Please respect the family's request to be left in peace.
Gregory Shevlin was one of the most worked orderlies in the Dade C.I. Transitional Care Unit in 2011 and 2012. We worked together as orderlies more days than any other orderlies in the TCU in 2011 and 2012. On the day Darren Rainey was killed Shevlin was one of the two orderlies working. I didn’t know the events that happened with Shevlin on the night Rainey was murdered until a few days after Rainey’s murder. On the day Rainey was murdered, Shevlin slept in Wing J1 and I slept in Wing J3 of the TCU. A few days after Rainey was murdered, I was able to see Shevlin for the first time since Rainey’s murder where I could actually speak with him. It was at a group meeting with several other inmates. Shevlin was expressing to Dr Cesar and the rest of the group that he was mad because Sgt. Fanfan wrote him a Disciplinary Report for refusing to clean up the feaces in Darren Rainey’s cell on the night Rainey was killed. Shevlin said that on the night Rainey was killed, after Ofc. Clarke took Rainey out of his cell to escort him to the shower, Sgt. Fanfan told Shevlin to clean Rainey’s cell. Shevlin said that when he looked in Rainey’s cell and seen the feaces, he told Sgt. Fanfan he wasn’t “going to clean it up,” to “get Hempstead.”
Sgt. Fanfan then told Shevlin to lockdown in his cell and that he would be receiving a Disciplinary Report for disobeying a verbal order. Shevlin said when he got back to his cell he was mad so he took a razor and made a big cut on the top (not the palm) of his hand. Shevlin further said that as Sgt. Fanfan and the security staff dealt with the issues going on with Darren Rainey, he (Shevlin) stood in his cell bleeding. He said security staff refused to help him so he almost bleed out and had to go to the hospital late on the night Rainey was killed. Shevlin knew I had been studying law for a long time, so while he was sharing the foregoing with all of us, he asked if I’d help him “fight the Disciplinary Report.” He wanted to get it thrown-out. I of course said yes. I wanted to see the Disciplinary Report right away. I knew the Disciplinary Report and the events that happened with Shevlin on the night Darren Rainey was killed was more evidence to prove Rainey’s murder.
Gregory Shevlin’s nickname was ‘New York.’ He was a very loud and vocal inmate when he wanted to be. The Disciplinary Report Shevlin received and the medical records relating to Shevlin cutting his hand on the night Rainey was killed are evidence. Another thing that I’d like to point out is that when prison staff, medical staff and law enforcement were at Dade C.I. on the night of Rainey’s murder, Shevlin was in the same general area of all of these people. If I know Gregory Shevlin like I believe I do, I can assure that my old vocal work-partner made sure that everybody he seen on the night Rainey was killed knew what was going on with him (Shevlin.)
Finally, the cell Shevlin was housed in on the night Rainey was killed (even though it was in Wing J1) had a direct view of the shower Rainey was killed in (even though the shower was in Wing J3.) What this means is, when Shevlin was in his cell bleeding on the night Rainey was killed, he could see (but not hear) everything going on with Rainey in Wing J3.
Obviously all of the foregoing made Gregory Shevlin a very important witness and all the documents relating to what happened with Shevlin are very important to prove Darren Rainey’s murder. I provided all of this information and a lot more details to the MDPD, Dade County Medical Examiner and State Attorney, and Department of Justice and FBI. When I seen on page 42 of the Dade County, Florida State Attorney’s 3/17/17 written decision to not prosecute Rainey’s killers, that the MDPD interviewed Shevlin while he was still housed in the Dade C.I. TCU, I could only say “why?”
Why would the MDPD interview Shevlin while he was housed in the Dade C.I. TCU where inmate-patients had a long history of being murdered, tortured, starved and abused? They knew Shevlin was an important witness and that he’d have to be willing to place his life in danger to speak about what he knew about the Darren Rainey murder while he was still housed in the TCU.
Why would they place Shevlin’s life in danger? The detective assigned to the Darren Rainey murder case had been in law enforcement for many, many years. They knew what they were doing. They knew they were placing Shevlin in danger. They knew they were placing Shevlin in a position to not tell them (the police) everything he witnessed on the night Rainey was killed. The MDPD interviewed Gregory Shevlin while he was housed in the Dade C.I. TCU because they didn’t want Shevlin to tell them what he witnessed and knew about the Rainey murder.
Another thing I noticed when I was reading the Dade County State Attorney’s 3/17/17 decision to not prosecute Rainey’s killers was there was no references to the Disciplinary Report Shevlin received or any of the other documents relating to what happened with Shevlin on the night Rainey was killed. I believe it’s reasonable to say the State Attorney, police and medical examiner in the Rainey case didn’t even try to obtain the foregoing report and documents. Why? Because these agencies didn’t want to prosecute Rainey’s killers so they didn’t take the investigation into Rainey’s murder serious and the police interviewed Shevlin in the Dade C.I. TCU knowing that would place him in a position to not talk about what he witnessed and knew about Rainey’s murder. Why do you think all these problems have happened with the Rainey case that I’ve presented and will continue to present if it’s God’s will? I believe the answer is obvious, and so obvious it really doesn’t require repeating because of how many times I mentioned it in other blogs. However, because this might be the first blog you read that was written by me, I’m compelled to state again what I’ve stated in so many other blogs. To the Dade County, Florida State Attorney and Miami-Dade Police Department, Rainey’s life wasn’t worth how much it’d cost to prosecute his killers. Why? Because Rainey came from a poor family, he was a black, mentally disabled Muslim prisoner, in prison for minor possession of drugs. It shouldn’t matter what or who Rainey was. What should matter is Rainey’s life had value. What should matter is those who tortured and killed Rainey violated state and federal law. Will you please join us in our quest for justice for the murder of Darren Rainey? Will you please join us in our fight for the value of life? Will you please share this blog with your friends and anybody you believe would like to join us in our fight for the value of life? Will you please sign our petition on Change.org entitled THE LIFE OF BLACK, MENTALLY DISABLED MUSLIM PRISONER DARREN RAINEY DOES MATTER.
Harold Hempstead, a.k.a. Caged Crusader, Tennessee Dept. of Corrections, USA, April 2017
I recently received a copy of the inmate mortality list for Dade C.I. for the years 2000 - 2017. When I was reading the names on the list I was shocked to see Darrell Richardson’s name on the list. In 2011 when I first seen black, mentally disabled inmate Darrell Richardson he was about 185 pounds of muscle. I was told he was in prison for killing two or three people and believe that he alleged Oprah Winfrey told him to do it. Darrell Richardson got Dade C.I. TCU security staff mad by always refusing to eat his food quickly and give his food tray back at meal times. After security staff made several attempts to get Darrell Richardson to comply with their orders to eat quickly and give them back the food trays when he was done eating and Richardson continued to give them problems with complying, they started placing his food in a styrofoam tray. After the styrofoam tray treatment didn’t work they started removing food from Darrell Richardson’s tray. They told him when they gave his tray to him with food missing from it that they removed food from it because he wasn’t eating quick enough so that meant there was too much food on the tray. As Richardson continued to not eat quickly and not return his styrofoam trays after meals, security staff decided they’d start withholding trays from him when they didn’t have time to get the styrofoam tray back from him.
In other words, when security staff knew prior to feeding a meal, they wouldn’t have enough time to deal with getting Richardson’s tray back from him, they just wouldn’t feed him. This was the treatment Richardson received for several months. How do I know this? Because I was the orderly serving the meals with security staff and because of my personal relationship with staff. The last time I seen Richardson (like Oscar Davis) was the day he was leaving the Dade C.I. TCU. He appeared to me to weigh under 120 pounds. He was so weak he had to be pushed in a wheelchair out of the Dade C.I. Transitional Care Unit. Darrell Richardson was the second inmate that I knew from Dade C.I. TCU that I believe died from a medical problem that came about as a result of being denied a large quantity of food on a daily basis for several months. I believe the security staff that used to deny Richardson food caused his death and are liable for murder if the extreme lack of food led to a medical condition that caused his death. Even though Richardson was a murderer who was a headache to Dade C.I. security staff, they had no right to deny him food as punishment. His mental disability is what caused him to be as he was. What is right is right and what is wrong is wrong. The law mandated that security staff give Darrell Richardson three full meals a day. They didn’t follow the law. Richardson was a mentally disabled, black inmate. The Florida of Corrections swept what happened to Richardson under the rug and attempted to hide the Darrell Richardson case by not listing him on the inmate mortality list for Dade C.I. I wonder how many more inmates are not on the inmate mortality list that died at Dade C.I. or who Dade C.I. staff were behind the deaths of. I advised the Department of Justice of these matters concerning Darrell Richardson. Also, I filed FDC grievances on what happened to Oscar Davis and Darrell Richardson. This is another case that the Dade County Florida Medical Examiner, MDPD and Dade County State Attorney covered up. Why? Because just like with Darren Rainey and Oscar Davis, Darrell Richardson was a mentally disabled black inmate and to these agencies his life didn’t matter.
My dear friends, we are just starting. There is a lot to discuss. Darrell Richardson was denied food as a punishment in the same Dade C.I. TCU Darren Rainey was killed in.
I'm Jeremy Schanche, British artist and activist. This blog features my paper, The Limpet. Here I write about human rights, the environment and politics. Please see my articles about Harold Hempstead and Florida Department of Corrections, with more at Harold Hempstead Caged Crusader Wordpress.com.
I have another blog that's completely different - it's where you'll find The Caterpillar, a journal of collage, poetry and surrealism that is remixed as The Caterpillar Dub - the world's first Dub newspaper. Both of these can be found at:
http://yecaterpillar.blogspot.com.
In October 2024 I published my first paperback book of fiction - The Horned Whale or An Morvil Kornek by Jeremy Schanche - available at various bookshops and at Amazon.
ISBN: 9780993490903.
175,710 words.
£15.
Contains the mystery novel - The Kramvil, plus two novellas, poetry and glossaries.
