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Originally posted by Gods Ivy
Sickle cell trait is not the same as having the disease and I think that is where folks are getting this case all mixed up. Just because you have the trait does not mean you feel any symptoms. If you produce a child and you and your mate have the trait then your child will have the disease. You can be a carrier of the trait and have not problems, due to distress or not. The issue is that they used excess force and continued to do so when the 14 year old's body went limp. Were you able to see the video. The nurse even watched as it happend.
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Right. Sickle cell trait is nothing. Everybody and their mothers have that. SST manifests physically, neurologically, or otherwise, in no way whatsoever. Anemia is a problem, additionally, under intense, stressful conditions, exhaustion and low oxygen could occur. However, I think it's important to keep in mind that this young man was an athlete and so for his sickle cell trait to suddenly start "acting up" because he was running some laps, I think is nuts.
I heard the first person who performed the autopsy say that if the guards did in fact kill this boy that he was lying when he said that he was out of breath in the first place and that he doesn't believe that he was faking. My answer to that is so what if he was faking...imagine that initially he was. A 14 year old boy lying about being tired doing strenuous exercises, etc. So! That's still no excuse to beat the shit out of him until he was unconscious.
I have a 13 year old sone and I can only imagine what this mother is going through. He was a CHILD!!!