Police Tie Up Tourist And Kill Him With Pepper Spray
No doubt you’ve heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it.
The photo shows the Ohio man restrained inside the Lee County Jail with his body covered in pepper spray.
“This photo is a picture of a man who is strapped to a chair naked inside a jail for hours with a hood over his face. That evokes thoughts of being tortured,” says Cleveland-based lawyer Nick DiCello who represents the Christie family.
The photo, which was obtained by FOX 13′s investigative unit, was taken in the final hours of Christie’s life.
The District 21 Medical Examiner ruled his death was a homicide because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper sprayed by law enforcement officers. But to this day, nobody has ever been charged with a crime, and the Lee County State Attorney cleared the sheriff’s office of any wrong doing.
It’s been more than two and a half years and his wife still can’t accept what happened.
“I was shocked. This was something out of a horror movie,” says Joyce Christie. She said her husband was depressed and was showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving for Florida.
She called authorities and pleaded with them to take her husband to a hospital and be given his medications. Instead, he was taken to jail for disorderly intoxication.
Her lawsuit alleges he was pepper sprayed 10 times over a 48-hour period, at times while in a restraint chair.
Tom DePolis spent more than 30 years in law enforcement at the Tampa Police Department and Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. He’s seen first-hand the effects of pepper spray and knows its limitations. He can see no reason for deputies to repeatedly pepper spray Nick Christie since he was already in custody.
“The purpose is to temporarily incapacitate someone — temporarily, that’s the key word, so you can restrain them,” says DePolis.
Monshay Gibbs was a deputy trainee at the jail at the time. In a video deposition, she testified that she thought the way Nick Christie was treated was excessive.
“He had a spit mask on and was naked,” she said on the video while under oath. Gibbs testified that Christie pleaded with guards to take off the spit mask because he couldn’t breathe.
He later died at the hospital. His heart failed from the shock of the pepper spray. The Lee County Sheriffs Office declined to comment on our story because of Joyce Christie’s wrongful death lawsuit, which is scheduled for trial the middle of next year.
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Police can get away with MURDER….
They can murder whomever they choose….
Have a nice day and remember to BOW to your OVERLORDS.
This is your future, if you dare to resist. Talk about crimes against humanity. Leave America while you still can.
Sorry to burst your bubble. But is called a New WORLD Order for a reason.
There is no where to run.
Pricks.
This is why, when they come for me, it won’t end up the enemy carting the sheep off to the slaughter.
I believe the way this man was violated is blatant terrorism with special circumstances of torture.
she called the cops on him because he was acting erratic…..hmmm she is lying about something also…shame on these police…a lot of just plain animals…
shame on the Florida judiciary!
I hope those cops pay for what they have done!
If that was done to me……I would make it my mission to repay the favour when released. The favour would be paid in blood.
Unfortunately you would be released to the morgue. Hard to repay the favor from the great beyond.
God curse those involved, include those covering it up, and those who chose to file no criminal charges. May they endure what he endured and pay for their crime(s).
The stench of corruption wafts up to God’s nose.
They’ll be reaping what they have sown and soon.
Christ has promised.
When the police get away literally with murder then you are finally living in a tyrannous state. This is why they want your guns. Take no notice of me I am only a believer in human freedom from tyrannous slugs that wrap themselves in a uniform and call themselves men. This is your future and will be common if you dont fight back which of course you will not because you are “AFRAID” of breaking the laws that control your thoughts.
Murder is murder, does not matter if you wear a uniform..
If television news did not ignore stories like this, people wouldn’t be so shocked and appalled when somebody kills a cop.
She called the police for help?
Obviously she doesn’t read REAL news, she watches too much TV.
That may have worked “in the old days”, but calling the police today
for ‘help’ is like calling the death squad.
Sure, not all cops are bad…. the good ones suffer like the rest of us.
I hope this story spreads far and wide…
I hope true justice will prevail.
They tortured and murdered this man. Will justice be done or are we looking at the future of every American potentially at the hands of the rogue justice system in this archaic broken down republic? There seems to be a “zeitgeist” of lawlessness, especially among the law makers and enforcers in this country right down to the local and county levels. What is this new “feeling” and can anything be done about it? I believe that this country which used to be protected by the very hand of God is now cursed by the removal of His protection and thus susceptible to the many evil spirits that control the world from the top down. These are the powers and principalities that Paul speaks about in Ephesians 6:12. Look it up and see if it doesn’t look that way to you.
You’d be appalled by the number of people that go into Police work so that they can get away with murder. It’s not small minority these days but there is almost no sanctity of life either. Sadly we need police to keep our society civil. But with all the abuse of power by police in the news today, the second there is an economic collapse citizens will probably kill every last one of them and call it self defense.
WELCOME HOME FROM WARS YOU ALL VOLUNTEERED FOR TO ‘KEEP US FREE’,
BOYS & GIRLS 
OF THE u.s. of TERROR!
NOW YOU ARE OUR ‘PEACE’ OFFICERS, I MEAN PIGS
And, now, you get to ‘SPRAY & PRAY’ Mom & Dad, sis, and brother with THOUSANDS OF ROUNDS OF AMMO. JUST LIKE IN Iraq!
AND TORTURE YOUR PRISONERS, JUST LIKE IN GITTMO!!!!!!!!
Oh, boy, my fellow amer-SCUM!
Let’s all sing amerika, the PERVERTED, HELLHOLE OF A white-man NIGHTMARE TOGETHER!
READY?
GOD BLESS MY UNDERWEAR,
MY ONLY PAIR!
STAND BESIDE THEM, AND WASH THE SKID MARKS,
WITH YOUR LIGHT FROM THE chris-SCUM-DUMB CHEM-TRIALED SKIES FROM ABOVE.
FROM THE MOUNTAINS.TO THE PRARIES TO THE OCEANS GLOWING WITH DEADLY RADIATION!
god BLESS THE EVIL WHITE MAN! HE HAS DESTROYED THE ENTIRE PLANET!
god DAMN THE WHITE-MAN, THE MOST DEADLY KILLER-CULT IN KNOWN HISTORY
Your statement is as evil as what the police carried out.
Yeah??
Yeah?? In WHAT way was it “as evil”, Mr. Anonymous??
Clearly tortured to death.
The fact that his death was ruled a homicide and that the Lee county police and prosecutors have protected and shielded the murderer from prosecution shows the absolute corruption and lawlessness of the Lee County Sheriffs Office.
Know your enemy.
Lady, YOU killed your husband by calling these fascist pigs in the first place….NEVER, NEVER, NEVER call the ‘police’ about mental health issues…hellooo??!
I hate cops.
As a Brit, I can honestly say I thought that there were too many legally owned guns in the States. Few people have them here, even though we have gun crime and shootings between inner city youth gangs and the odd murder and robbery involving firearms. However, the more I read about police brutality over there, I honestly believe that if they were to take their guns away by force, there would be a blood bath. When I see videos’ like this, I am coming to believe that the ordinary people of America need them more than they ever did.
Sure, we have bad cops over here, but during my sixty years of world watching, I have seen America descending, under the guise of democracy, into a new brand of fascism, and we, under the murderous Blair are following them down the same path and exporting it globally.
It might seem like I am going off track here but it all boils down to the same thing, really… Bullies in the playground preying on the vulnerable. Always out of sight of those who can fight them back. Murder a couple of million Iraqis and however many Afghanis in the knowledge you can always go home and leave a mess behind you.
And now North Korea wakes from it’s troubled sleep with a starving population and, dare I say it, real WMD’s.
And so, the bullies scatter. Maybe they (and by that I mean ‘us’) should’ve gone there first. I am ashamed to have shared a world and lived a lifetime amongst these people
pepper spray is a chemical weapon. Why are we using chemical weapons on our own people?
& now I can understand just why DA’s & Cops get cut down…it will just escalate from here on out… Cops murder Citizen… 100 cops die… Always thought they were suppose to be working for us???
when tyranny knocks on your door, it will be wearing a uniform. sige hiel