The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office in Memphis, Tenn., has issued an arrest warrant for a man, not because he committed what any reasonable person would consider an actual crime, but, seemingly, because he exposed the conditions he experienced in a jail where he had already been detained.
According to WREG Memphis, Derrick McDonald, who is paralyzed, spent four days inside 201 Poplar, a jail in Memphis. In November, McDonald went live on Facebook to reveal video footage taken from his cellphone, which he said was not taken from him while he was being processed for charges related to old driving warrants, which he said were ultimately dropped, WREG reported. Although, according to Fox 13, he was arrested on a drug possession charge. Regardless of what he was arrested for, records show an active warrant has now been issued for McDonald’s arrest for a felony count of possession of contraband in a penal facility, as if he’s personally responsible for jail employees’ failure to take his phone.
“Roaches, bugs, gnats, fruit flies, like black mold everywhere, water everywhere. Dirty clothes and stuff laying all out in the hallway,” McDonald said in the video. “I asked them several times to change me, and they were like, ‘No’ and looking at me like they really don’t care.” He also claimed no one was monitoring, and a blind man, who he said was left wandering around the facility…