Nick Christie – Police Tie Up 62yr Old Man Then Pepper Spray Him To Death

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[Commentator] Source: LYBIO.net
You know we’ve seen and heard a lot about pepper spray lately, it hurts badly if you get hit in the face. We have seen images all around the country and its quite commonly used by law enforcement. Some say to commonly though. It’s suppose to be non-lethal but tonight FOX13 investigator reporter Doug Smith shows us a very disturbing picture and reveals some new evidence in a story he first broke last August. Its a picture of a tourist who came to Florida and was repeatedly pepper sprayed, he died in pain, and nobody is willing to take the blame.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
Nick Christie came to Florida from up North in Ohio to get away for awhile, spend a little time with his brother.

[Nick Dichello - Christie Family Attorney] Source: LYBIO.net
He was a tourist, he was a guest, he was a visitor, ah he was a vacationer, you know a lot of people do that in Florida.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
But most tourists don’t end up like this: bound, gaged and heavily pepper sprayed.

[Nick Dichello - Christie Family Attorney]
This photo is of a man strapped to a chair naked, inside of a jail cell for hours, covered in pepper spray with a hood over his face. That – that – that evokes ah thoughts of being tortured.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
Nick Dichello is the lawyer who represents the Christie Family. This disturbing photo obtained by FOX13 was taken in the final hours of Nick Christie’s life. You can see the pepper spray dripping from his body. A spit mask covered his mouth. He was in agony. The medical examiner ruled Christie’s death was a homicide (MANNER: Homicide (restrained and sprayed with pepper spray by law enforcement officers) because he had been restrained and sprayed with pepper spray by law enforcement officers. But nobody was every charged with a crime. And the Lee County State Attorney cleared the Sheriff’s office of any wrong doing. It’s been more than 2 1/2 years now and his wife still can’t accept what happened.

[Joyce Christie - Wife]
I was shocked! This was something out of a horror movie.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
Joyce Christie said her husband was depressed and showing signs of erratic behavior a few days before leaving Florida, she called authorities and pleaded that her husband be taken to a hospital and given his medications. Instead he was taken to the Lee County Jail for disorderly intoxication. Her lawsuit alleges that he was pepper sprayed ten times over a 48 hours period (Pepper-sprayed no less than ten times.”) at times (“… in the restraint chair.”) in a restraint chair. That’s him in the chair in the Jail Surveillance video.

[Doug Smith - Reporter] Source: LYBIO.net
There’s an allegation that he was peppered sprayed when he was restrained. Can you see a reason for doing that?

[Tom Depolis] Source: LYBIO.net
I can not.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
Tom Depaul has spent more than 30 years in the law enforcement at TPD (Tampa Police Department) and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. He has seen first hand the effects of pepper spray and knows its limitations.

[Tom Depolis - Retired Law Enforcement]
The purpose is to incapacitate the person temporarily, that’s the key word, long enough so that you can restrain them.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
So you don’t pepper spray them when they are restrained?

[Tom Depolis - Retired Law Enforcement]
No, that would be ridiculous while they are restrained.

[Doug Smith - Reporter] Source: LYBIO.net
(Gibbs) was a Deputy Trainee at the Jail, she broke her silence in the video deposition obtained by FOX13 investigates. She testifies that she thought the way Christie was treated was excessive.

[Courts]
Did Christie have a spit mask on – spit mask on?

[(Gibbs) - Deputy Trainee] Source: LYBIO.net
Ya

[Courts]
Could you see that he was – was he naked?

[(Gibbs) - Deputy Trainee]
Yes he was

[Courts]
Completely naked?

[(Gibbs) - Deputy Trainee]
Completely naked?

[Doug Smith - Reporter] Source: LYBIO.net
Gibbs said 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

[Joyce Christie - Wife]
It was almost like he was tortured. Nobody should have to go through what we went through.

[Doug Smith - Reporter]
The sheriff’s office declined comment on our story cause the Joyce Chrisite’s lawsuit which is scheduled for trail, some time, looks like the middle of next year.

[Reporter]
So let’s back up a second. Nobody was fired or even disciplined over this?

[Reporter] Source: LYBIO.net
Yes

[Reporter]
Even though it was ruled a homicide, a homicide does not necessarily mean it was a criminal act. Everybody was cleared, it was worth noting that the Florida courts have ruled on this issue, they ruled that using pepper spray on inmates who are mentally ill is unconstitutional, that took place a while back inside the Florida prisons. And not doubt that claim of it being unconstitutional will come out in the civil trial but there will be no criminal trail.

[Reporter]
Sure, and obviously there is pepper in it. Back this up a little bit, let’s talk about how pepper spray works cause this sounds like pepper but this can be nasty stuff.

[Reporter]
It is Mark, Pepper spray essentially your right, it is pepper it it – you spray it into the eyes, and there are various concentrations, there are various grades of pepper that are used, one other interesting point on this is that there is no uniform standard for pepper spray, there are no regulations of the chemicals that are in it. Ah, in fact there is a Trade Secrets Act that protects the manufacturer from having to disclose exactly what’s in the pepper spray. So OCA the FDA so nobody regulates this sort of thing, you don’t know exactly what’s in that pepper spray which is a fascinating story that we are gonna follow up on.

[Mark Reporter]
Ya, considering it has been around for so many years that’s its been taken this long to maybe get this far, if it does go to trial, we can maybe look at precedent perhaps?

[Reporter]
It could be a precedent especially for the State of Florida and perhaps even around the country, this is a big case and we will continue to follow it.

[Mark Reporter] Source: LYBIO.net
I’m sure you will, we will appreciate it. Thanks

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