UK detention centre slammed after 84-year-old Canadian dies in handcuffs

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Dementia patient, 84, died in handcuffs - Telegraph
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The story is not a big story here. I never saw it anywhere on the news and only knew about it when I saw it here. It's just not a big deal news story. The big story at the moment here is the missing three-year-old boy in Edinburgh. To say this story is "causing a furore" in Britain is a bit wide of the mark.

Tecumsehsbones said:
Ah, that explains it. No way is Blackloaf going to read a left-wing rag like the Torygraph.
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I don't read the Telegraph. It's not quite right wing enough for my liking. I prefer the Daily Mail. The Sun and The Spectator are also good.
 
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Blackleaf said:
The story is not a big story here. I never saw it anywhere on the news and only knew about it when I saw it here. It's just not a big deal news story. The big story at the moment here is the missing three-year-old boy in Edinburgh.




I don't read the Telegraph. It's not quite right wing enough for my liking. I prefer the Daily Mail. The Sun and The Spectator are also good.
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Such a shame the Volkischer Beobachter went out of business.
 
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SLM said:
UK detention centre slammed after 84-year-old Canadian dies in handcuffs
A spokesman for GEO said detainees were handcuffed only when there was "a documented risk of absconding," and that use of restraints was balanced against other factors, including age.
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So an 84 yr old dude with Alzheimer's, diabetes, etc.is a risk of hoofing it away from armed guards probably a third his age? interesting.
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He shouldn't have been in a detention centre in that condition.
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Right.

Of course, in this country we taser our elderly dementia patients.
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It fits. A lot of our heritage is from the Brits.

Blackleaf said:
Christianity isn't a cult. Islam is.
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From Oxford's dictionary - "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object"
 
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Blackleaf said:
I don't read foreign media. Only British ones.
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And I thought it was the education system that failed you.
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