Federal standards for restrained persons in custody are that restraints are inspected and removed every fifteen minutes to ensure circulatory and other damage is mitigated.
I guess the Oakland Police will follow those standards after they are officially in receivership.
Medication is not to be denied as that is a violation of the rights to medical care of detained persons. The duration of detainment or their custody status has no bearing on medical need. Medical need is a human right.
Perhaps the Alameda County Sheriff needs to be in receivership as well since they are also unable to treat those in their custody in a Constitutional manner.
Over 400 arrested and ONLY 12 charged? I smell a class action suit on the OPD's horizon for spurious arrests.
Angel Castellon, a 19-year-old Oakland resident, said she was arrested in front of the YMCA, where police corralled protesters about 6 p.m. Saturday, and then taken to Santa Rita Jail about 1 a.m. Sunday. She sat on the sidewalk for seven hours in plastic handcuffs and was finally able to wiggle her hands free to relieve the discomfort of having her arms held behind her back. She said she was not booked until Monday morning and that deputies at the jail threatened to detain her longer after she demanded to know why she was being held so long after being cited.
Another man, Joshua Clover, 49, of Berkeley, said he was held at the
jail until Sunday night -- more than 24 hours after being detained outside the YMCA -- without access to a liquid antacid to treat the pain from a perforated peptic ulcer -- until an attorney intervened. But he and others at Santa Rita Jail over the weekend described seeing deputies throw people to the ground and deny others access to medication.
The staff at times either ignored requests for attention or said they couldn't provide medication because the protesters were not being booked into the general population, according to Clover, Castellon and others. Clover said sometimes Santa Rita Jail staff members simply chose not to process people for hours at a time.
We will know more in the coming weeks as the stories of those arrested are put online.