..."They told the doctors to cut out all of my [subdermal] piercings. ... “I told the nurses specifically: ‘I do not consent to this.’ But they put lidocaine [for numbing] on my face and on the back of my neck. The thing is it is only supposed to work for 40 minutes; I was lying there for well over an hour and they just started doing it. I was shackled to the bed. I couldn’t move. “The guards who brought me there were laughing at me. They were just like: ‘Oh, that’s gnarly.’ I kept saying: ‘I can feel this. It hurts.’”
Holy fucking shit.
This man describes a completely arbitrary arrest process followed by being packed into a 10 man cell with 100 people in it and one toilet, consistently being denied food and hygiene, being punished for speaking to a lawyer and watching someone who'd been begging staff for their heart medication die of a heart attack right in front of him.
It's important for Americans to hear this man's story in his own words: https://archive.is/XpPIO