Gigi 🍄🟫Well this is a fucking horrifying read about a practice that needs to be banned immediately.
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At the time of his death, Spring was being illegally detained. The previous day, Dec. 23, 2022, a judge had ordered his release.
What happened next was only revealed when reporters obtained internal staff incident reports.
Guards describe Spring, who’d been diagnosed with schizophrenia, as unstable and having difficulty managing his emotions.
A fight broke out with another inmate and correctional officers intervened. Guards pepper-sprayed the young man and forced him into a spit hood, a head covering made of mesh and fabric that first responders put on people to protect themselves from being spit on.
Handcuffed and hooded, Spring was thrown into a shower, where he was pepper-sprayed once more. When staff took him to his cell, they realized Spring was no longer breathing.
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The full, much more horrifying article, is available at the link:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/spit-hoods-misuse-deaths-9.7107138
Why putting spit hoods on people is risky — and can be deadly | CBC News
Spit hoods are meant to protect first responders from spitting. Yet an investigation by CBC's the fifth estate and Radio-Canada's Enquête identified 17 fatal incidents involving the controversial device in Canada over the last two decades. In nearly every case, the hood seems to have been misused.