Stop the Police Madness

How does a 22 year old woman end up in jail after her car is run off the road? Even more curious, how does she end up dead several weeks later?

Shaun King of the New York Daily News tells us in this article:

A beautiful 22-year-old mother of a 3-year-old-daughter died in police custody on Tuesday, May 10, and nobody's talking. Not the police. Not the jail. Not the medical examiner. Not the local press. 

Nobody. 

If you Google her name, it's as if she never existed. 

Symone Nicole Marshall, according to her family, was in a brutal car accident on April 26 in which her car flipped over several times before landing in a ditch.   

Instead of being taken to the hospital, though, she was taken to the Walker County Jail in Huntsville, Tex., about an hour north of Houston. 

Speaking to her sister, Honey, Symone said from jail that someone ran her off the road.

Symone told her sister "that her head was hurting and she kept blacking out". Her sister called the jail to try and get Symone transferred to a hospital, but the jail refused.

While I disagree with Shaun King's views on the Trayvon Martin case, Symone Marshall's case is far more clear. A woman with injuries from an auto accident is taken to jail instead of a hospital? Even if Symone was a thug like Trayvon, there was no George Zimmerman in this situation. This was a police action, or inaction, that led to her death. Even if she had committed a crime that led police to arrest her, they should have heeded her warnings about blacking out, even if there were no other visible injuries on her. She probably had a concussion, and died from it.

We may need a police force to police our police forces.