First a rerun of an earlier article:
"Man with Down syndrome died in custody of policemen he idolized; Maryland authorities rule death a homicide and investigate" by Theresa Vargas | Washington Post, February 24, 2013
FREDERICK, Md. — Fascinated with law enforcement, Robert Ethan Saylor would sometimes call 911 just to ask the dispatchers a question. He loved talking to police officers and was a loyal follower of the TV show ‘‘NCIS.’’
Now, his death at age 26 is the subject of a criminal investigation that has left those who knew him in his Frederick County community and those who didn’t around the country wondering: How did a young man with Down syndrome die in an encounter with the very people he idolized?
As officials tell it, Saylor had been watching ‘‘Zero Dark Thirty’’ at a Frederick, Md., movie theater last month and, as soon as it ended, wanted to watch it again.
I felt that way about the midnight premiere of "Revenge of the Sith." I went home walking on air and wide awake at 2:30 a.m.
When he refused to leave, a theater employee called three off-duty Frederick County sheriff’s deputies who were working a second security job at the Westview Promenade shopping center and told them that Saylor needed to buy another ticket or be removed.
What happened next is the subject of an investigation by the Frederick County Bureau of Investigation. The findings are expected to go to the Frederick County State Attorney’s Office for review soon....
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And the results of that investigation:
"No indictment in disabled Md. man’s death" by David Dishneau | Associated Press, March 23, 2013
FREDERICK, Md. — A Frederick County grand jury on Friday declined to indict three sheriff’s deputies involved in the asphyxiation death of a man with Down syndrome, prompting the man’s family to question the thoroughness of the investigation by the officers’ co-workers.
Robert Ethan Saylor’s parents, Patti and Ronald Saylor, want to review the investigative file compiled by the sheriff’s office and the state medical examiner’s autopsy report before deciding whether to pursue civil action, Baltimore lawyer Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum said. Neither file was available for public inspection. ‘‘The family is extremely disappointed and saddened by the grand jury’s decision,’’ Krevor-Weisbaum said. ‘‘The inquiry into events on that terrible night is not going to stop here.’’
Saylor, 20, died Jan. 12 after the deputies, moonlighting as Westview Promenade mall security officers, tried to remove him from a Regal Cinemas Westview Stadium 16 auditorium at the management’s request.
His caretaker had gone outside to get the car after a screening of ‘‘Zero Dark Thirty,’’ and Saylor had returned to a theater seat, his family’s lawyers said.
Oh, so if the cops had only waited a few more minutes the caretaker would have come in and cleared up the situation.
Saylor ended up handcuffed on the floor after he became ‘‘verbally and physically resistant’’ to the deputies.
He did that to the guys he idolized and loved?
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