“Whites are number one in pretty much all violence.”
From the Planned Parenthood shooting to gunning down coworkers to rape and other sex -crimes, white men seem to be the most common culprit. Yet they don’t receive the lion’s share of the focus, or face the same demonization by the media, as Eleanor Goldfield explains in the latest episode of Act Out! on Occupy.com.
Would NYC’s new rules for solitary confinement have saved the life of 19-year-old Andy Henriquez?
Henriquez was brought to Rikers Island when he was only 16. Three years later, he was still awaiting trial when he was placed in isolation. Henriquez had complained of chest pains for seven months before being thrown in “the bing,” but no one at the prison took him seriously.
Health and correction staff ignored Henriquez’ increasingly-dire calls for help, to the point where other inmates on his block began shouting for someone to save him. But no one ever did. Henriquez suffered alone and in extreme pain, given only a prescription for hand cream under the wrong name, until he eventually died from a tear in his aorta.
