UBC student dies 2 days after drunk tank stay
 

This has been on the news and I kept expecting to see it on revscene, but I haven't. Did quick search didn't find anything either. I found this article extremely disturbing, and according to the timeline the student was in the drunk tank for a total of almost TEN hours. I don't think it takes ten hours to sober up. Again, its the police investigating the police.

Source : http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2...67236-qmi.html

rip

ive been in that drunk tank, its really clean.

maybe a similar incident back in 2009 with aboriginal Frank Paul?
http://www.turtleisland.org/news/frankpaul.htm

RIP.

he died 23 hours later in a different city? why are you trying to connect dots that arent there?

sorry but wats the drunk tank???:confused:

nvm google answered my question =)

I've never been in the drunk tank but 10 hours doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'd be all for holding people for 24 hours so after they sober up they can sit there for a while as punishment for drinking like an idiot and think about how stupid drinking to that extent is. Unless the cops beat this guy and caused his death one thing really had nothing to do with the other IMO. If he passed out in an alley and then later died in his apartment or elsewhere that's really on the idiot drinking in extreme excess.

I also don't have a problem with them asking the question and investigating what really happened. If the police somehow lead to his death then that needs to be looked at but unless they beat him I don't see how.

There's no need to look further, he drank too much and died. It isn't rocket science. "oh maybe the cops did it"
No, maybe people are stupid and just die due to their own stupidity.
No one want's to take responsibility for anything anymore.

Or maybe the cops should have realized that there is something unusually wrong with him and send him to the hospital instead of the drunk tank?

He probably felt too painful/out of it to do anything at that point and the cops just assumed that he was just causing a scene...

i'm no doctor, but could 1 possibility of his death be due to...alcohol poisoning? just throwing it out there.

He could have went to the hospital instead of back to his apartment when he got out. He was let out in the morning of the 24th and died on the 26th, that part is on him not the Popo.

How drunk do you have to be to thrown in the DT? Like if you are walking home shitfaced? Or do you gotta be drunk and acting aggresive?
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Don't they have doctors and nurses that watch the people in drunk tanks?

23 hours is a long time, anything could of happened from the time he was released to when he was found dead. RIP.

maybe internal bleeding from the head pounding he got when he fell? Doctors wont be able to see it

RIP

i ended up in the surrey drunk tank on the first day of the canadian mens hockey game lol :)


first thing i smell/see when i got out the next morning? someone smoking a doobie of some fine bc kush :)

I believe 8 hours is the min. amount they put you in the tank for.
I spent 10 hours in the Merritt drunk tank a couple years back..

No they don't and why should they? and 23 hours is not a long time to be in jail.

It's too bad he died but I predict that the media will soon hold the VPD responsible followed by public outcry for mistreatment and lack of responsibility.

RCMP. It happened in Whistler.

drunk tanks are fun, you can curse at the cops as much as you want and they cant do shit...

oh fuck... forgot, you do it in Victoria, sergeant chong will beat the SHIT out of you!

Did you even read the article? He spent 10 hours in cells and he was found in his residence 23 hours after he was released.

I know the VPD has nurses for their cells, wondering if anyone knows whether the RCMP does as well.

when you are in the drunk tank do you have access to drinking water or the toilet?

Being in the drunk tank won't affect your record right?

Sorry I'm a noob at this :p

The police will throw you in the drunk tank as long as they "believe" you're drunk. They don't have any set of guidelines it seems.

I have a friend who got thrown in when he was sober just because someone told the police that he was drunk. Can he complain for unlawful arrest? Or detaining him without some kinda warrant?

They just throw you into the tank and sorta... leave you there. They don't really come back to check on you. No doctors or nurses.

He was in there for about 5 hours... 2AM - 7AM. And no, he didn't get offered any water or anything. People were pissing and puking on themselves in his cell, or passed out on the floor. Oh, and when they release you, your wallet will usually be missing about $100 or so. I know this because it's happened to 2 people I know.

I call BS.