By Jason Renard Walker, NABPP Minister of Labor

Many citizens in society know little if anything about what actually goes on in an American prison. The little some do know usually portrays prisoners in a negative light.

We can thank the mainstream media for falsely viewing prisons as places where violent predators spend their days: preying on the weak; lifting weights; watching movies and stabbing each other for no reason at all. Kinda like-how HBO laid out the prison environment in the previously run show ‘OZ’ or how FOX T.V. viewed prisons in the show ‘Prison Break’: places of candid violence, unprovoked killings, forced rape, torture, etc.

Relatively, such activity sometimes occur but it’s far from the norm of prison life .In reality, prisoners are more subject to instigated abuse by guards whose main source of weaponry is chemical agents. A weapon that they have no fear of using because the victim is often trapped in a cell; handcuffed; pinned to the ground by other guards or unaware that he will be sprayed.

Abusive prison guards assault as they please since they have the barriers of barb-wired fences, walls and handcuffs to protect them. The media has a hard time getting in; prisoners have little win with the grievance procedures; those who dare tell the public are subject to more abuse; guards use all sorts of plays to keep rebellious prisoners at odds with each other. Prisoners who would other wise rightfully turn their frustrations onto the abusive guard.

ATTEMPTED MURDER CAUGHT ON CAMERA

Wanna see an attempted murder? I saw one on May 27, 2020 on the close custody 3 buildings’ A-pod at 33 cell around 7:20pm. The surveillance cameras were tuned in so it wouldn’t be hard for a requestor to retrieve the footage through the Freedom Of Info Act (FOIA). But for those who oppose, here’s what happened.

Between 6:00pm and 6:30pm Donald Davila #1928492 and his cellmate brought it to Sgt Clark’s attention that they were having problems with each other. Clark, a white guard, ignored this and carried on. Minutes after, they fought. The sounds and rumbles of punches and body parts slamming against their steel wall echoed throughout the cellblock. We prisoners listened as several rounds of fighting ensued.

During count, officer Echo passed their cell, saw the fight, then emptied an entire canister of chemical agents through the holes of their cell door. They immediately stopped fighting and laid on the ground, faces covered with sheets.

Echo called it in: prompting Sgt Clark, Cpt Patricia Flowers, an unknown white Lieutenant .and Sgt Flores to respond. At this point the first can of chemical agents had circulated throughout the pod, contaminating everyone, even the responders who put gas masks on.

Without provocation and as the prisoners lay prostrated on the floor in submission. Two full cans of chemical’ agents was sprayed directly on them. Four more canisters were brought and sprayed on the choking prisoners, one after the other in a span of five minutes. Sgt Flores looked on as each staffer took turns deploying their own can. Officer Gomez looked on from the pod watch tower.

No initial effort was made by any guard to cuff and remove the prisoners from the cell. Even if they chose to, neither guard had the tool needed to open the food slot and cuff the prisoners so they could be removed. The prisoners ware never given any orders to abate further gassing. No nurse was summoned to assess the prisoners’ conditions, as prescribed by the TDCJ Use Of Force policy manual.

The guards’ complicity to gas the prisoners to death became evident to every observer. Sgt Flores, a white female, left the viewing area to avoid being witness. Enraged prisoners began rocking the cellblock with door kicks insult hurling and pleas for the gassing to stop.

Prisoner Derin Fortner #2092539, who had the best visual sight explained, “These 3 ranking officers emptied 2 small cans of chemical agents and used 4 big cans emptying at least 2 of them – all within a 5 minute period. No medical personnel was on scene during this use of force nor was the portable camera (handheld video camera) focused into the cell recording the actions of the offenders that required such an excessive use of force.”

To add insult to injury the six-man cell extraction team came to remove the prisoners by unjustified force. As both came out of the cell shackled, their face and entire bodies glistened and dripped chemical agents. Their saturated and dripping boxer shorts hung off their bodies from the weight of the dripping gas .Both were obviously asphyxiated by the contamination, yet forced to stumble along.

Our requests for witness statements went completely ignored. Requests for a grievance weren’t fulfilled as supposedly none were on the building. As of today, May 29, 2020, our requests for grievances are still being ignored.

To my longtime readers this should be De Ja Vu. Flowers is the same ranking staff who oversaw the illegal gassing of a handcuffed Kevin Rashid Johnson December 21, 2016 and the taking of his legal and personal property just before. As in this case, prisoners were denied witness statements and grievances. I even received a trumped up disciplinary case, violating the social media rule, for writing an affidavit (that was posted on Rashid’s wabsite) exposing, the denial of our right to file written complaints during his abuse.

The overseeing of gassed prisoners isnt just a Cpt Flowers thing. Its a Clements unit thing. Please help bring these social paths to the publics eye by retrieving a copy of the pod surveillance cameras (3 on each pod) and letting them see that some of the most violent people are the ones whose duty is to supposedly contain the violent criminals.

Dare To Struggle,Dare To Win!All Power To The People!

Jason Renard. Walker #1532092

Clements Unit 9601 Spur 5901 Amarillo, Tx 79107

Jason Renard Walker is the Minister of Labor for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, whose writings can be found on his personal website: www.jasonsprisonjournal.com and many other sites such as: www.truth:org; www.itsgoingdown.org; www.solitarywatch.org; www.prisonwatchnutwork.org; www.prisonwriters.com; www.rashidmod.com and many others. His ebook can be purchased by going to Amazon.com or clicking the link on his website.