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.
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I completely understand people not wanting to get involved, People are naturally afraid of the Powers that be. However; You either fight active evil or You accept it..Doing nothing is acceptance. There is No in between . How can anyone look at this mans picture and not see that he was Tortured and Murder by those who took an Oath to Protect and Serve ?
This has been going on in the Lee County Jail for as long as I can remember and is continuing according to current inmates. Nick was not the first causality and he wasn’t the last . We all re-post political stuff, funny pictures and sayings and other things that we have a passion for.
Now; I am asking for Compassion for Nick’s family, For Justice to be severed and the out cry of outrage that because the murders were Law Enforcement Officers that be above the law and not held to the same standards as citizens.
Please; Do the right Thing and post the petition, call the governors office and demand Justice , call the US Attorney in the Florida Southern District beg them to take over this case.
www.thepetitionsite.com/456/justice-for-nick-christie-murdered-in-the-lee-county-florida-jail-by-those-who-were-to-protect-and/