David Stojcevski was arrested after he told police he could not afford to pay a $772 traffic ticket.
The judge in his case ordered him to spend a month in the Macomb County jail. But for the 32-year-old, this turned out to be a death sentence.
David was denied clothing, lost 50 pounds, repeatedly suffered convulsions, and even began to hallucinate.
Medical experts say that he died from untreated drug withdrawal and galling neglect.
The lengthy, agonizing dying process was recorded on surveillance footage.
David had been placed in a monitored cell, after he was erroneously put on self-harm watch. That’s because jail officials believed he was mentally ill, rather than going through drug withdraw.
Local WDIV reported on this case, with medical experts weighing in. They explain that David was using Methadone, Xanax, and Klonopin to treat his addiction and slowly overcome heroin use.
But in jail, he was denied access to these treatments, and he quickly went into severe withdraw.
Police stripped David naked, telling him that it was “for his own protection” so he didn’t hurt himself.
When the police saw his condition, they should have immediately gotten him medical assistance. Instead, they tortured him and left him to starve to death and die from other symptoms of withdraw.
Watch the video below. WARNING: Graphic, disturbing images.
(Article by Jackson Marciana)
what the fuck kind of traffic ticket costs 772? and he couldn’t pay it, so he goes to prison. I thought debtors prisons were illegal in ‘the land of the free’…
To what extent did this person’s drug use contribute to his death? IOW if he had not used drugs what are the chances this outcome would have happened?
Who made the decision for him to use drugs?
If the family cared so much for him why didn’t they pay the $772 and keep him out of jail?
Does their sudden great concern for him now and their wanting to generate public condemnation for his treatment have anything to do with the possibility of a lawsuit?
If you fuck yourself up with drugs don’t blame anyone else for the consequences.
I saw on the ticket “no insurance”. That can easily jack up the fines.
Losing 50 pounds in 17 days. Holy shit. Even healthy people can hardly survive that. A dog would have gotten better treatment. I see it as murder, pure and simple.
“Who made the decision for him to use drugs?” ———– ASIG
Give me a break. He was take prescriptions from a doctor to get off off drugs.
“If the family cared so much for him why didn’t they pay the $772 and keep him out of jail?” —ASIG
Maybe they didn’t have the money. Maybe they are poor. Maybe they were practicing “tough love”. Who the fuck are you to pass judgment on them?
“If you fuck yourself up with drugs don’t blame anyone else for the consequences.” —- ASIG
In other words, let’s excuse the copfuk’s bad behavior.
Gator,
Fines are a criminal penalty, not a debt.
You go to jail for not paying them either because the sentence was given as either the money or jail or because you are in contempt for not paying.
Almost all jurisdictions are required to make arrangements for payment if you don’t have the full amount of money up front.
You really think we should just ignore law breakers that can’t, or claim they can’t, pay fines? Why would anyone pay any attention at all if we did?
Letting him die in jail that way is another issue, and one that should have a criminal investigation tied to it for those responsible and charges brought if there are any that can be brought.
@Stucky
“In other words, let’s excuse the copfuk’s bad behavior.”
No, the point is, don’t overlook the primary cause for his problems, it was his drug use. The cops were incompetent and should have done things differently, but they didn’t cause the problem.
Punish the cops however you want, just don’t lose sight of the fact the one MOST responsible for this persons problems is the one that took the drugs in the first place.
In OK, 1 car in 3 is not insured. I know people in their 30’s that have never had insurance or a drivers license. Yet, the POlice pull over high school kids and grannies on residential streets. Wonder why?
Oh I know, they have money.
You jst walk through the parking lot of , oh say a big store like WMT and you’ll easily find a couple dozen plus cars without tags or (long) expired registrations. If I can see this, why can’t the POlice?
Oh I know, they have no money.
Something else going on here. Opiate withdrawal, the physical part, is only four or five days.
Hey po po , I don’t have insurance either but I got 772 dollars as a get out of jail card.He was a drug addict . He did this to himself. His family must have just thought he would be ok in jail.Probably thought it would be best for him.
The cops will be held accountable for their behavior. So cheer up.
Let me give an example of what I mean by not overlooking who is most responsible.
True story. I know a guy that made a serious attempt at suicide. I won’t go into the reason, that’s too long a story. He put a shotgun to his chest and pulled the trigger. However because he was drunk at the time and not paying attention to what he was doing, when he reached down to pull the trigger, the barrel of the gun moved from being originally pointed strait into his chest to where it was now pointing between his chest and his left arm. The blast took out part of a rib or two and part of his arm but after extensive surgery he lived.
Later on he discovered that there were a number of shot gun pellets still embedded in his chest. He was pissed at the doctor for what he claimed was incompetence. And I swear, he told me he was seriously considering suing the doctor. I told him that even if there was some possibility that the doctor was sloppy or incompetent, no jury, no judge, would overlook the fact that it was he that shot himself in the chest and put those shot gun pellets there in the first place.
So I ask the question again; to what extent did this person’s drug use contribute to his death?
And if it’s true he was taking prescriptions from a doctor to get off of drug, how does that change the fact that his body was fucked up due to his drug use? How does that change the fact that there are consequences for fucking up your body with drugs?
So, I have a question to “All Good American’s” –
Why didn’t the “Good American” Gestapo or SS guards just crucify him?
Just like the “Good American” allies of Saudi Arabia does. Would have been quicker, but I guess the sadistic tendencies of the scumbag guards wouldn’t have been satisfied.
The American public had best wake up and start putting a stop to shit like this, or soon it will be their turn! Every Uncle Sam, man Jack and Son. The entire country is swirling around the toilet bowl quicker and quicker. Soon to find itself entirely in the sewer, with not one redeeming quality.
waste of time for answers from me, yet what came first, high potency drugs or disinterested cops. it is either bill ayers fault or society’s. the left will reveille in societies lack of compassion, while the rest of are left wonder who benefits from all the cost associated from self destructive behavior.
Phoolish,
They may be illegals,
They’re exempt from motor vehicle and traffic laws, ya’ know.
His poor immigrant parents have learned a new song that is popular with some lucky families in Baltimore and Ferguson….it goes like this:
We’re in the money!
We’re in the money!
We got a lot of what it takes to get along!
Anyone care to start a pool to guess how many millions the grieving, crying, despondent, mourning, shocked and horrified parents are going to be awarded? I’ll go with $8 million.
We’re in the money!
We’re in the money!
Now how much for our other useless kid?
I was going to stay out of this, but I get massively downvoted just for pointing out what was going on was not opiate withdrawal? OK, fuck all you liberal bleeding heart douchebags. Let’s get to the point. The guy was a worthless drain on society. I know, he was just getting his life together, gonna cure cancer. How many resources to you want to invest in this guy? Probably hundreds of his ilk flailing around prisons right now.
What do you want to do with them? How much time and money should we spend on them? Where is HSF? he’ll tell you, not all things make it, even if he disagrees with me here. You probably can’t do anything about a guy like this. You can spend a lot of time and money, but in the end, you have junkie, and that never ends well.
He lost fifty pounds?????
The cops could make MILLIONS running this as a weight loss clinic.
Where are all the asswipes that want to legalize drugs? Victimless crime, huh? Except for the poor people who get blamed cause this scumbag decided to die on their watch. Watching this video should warm their hearts. How cold of society not to keep giving him free narcotics. Why do you think they call ot dope?
I can see I’m quite popular with the libs. BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! Fucking idiots
Or should i say, fucking idiot (and it ain’t flash)
When emotions are strong, logic, common sense and truth don’t stand a chance.
Anonymous above was me
“You really think we should just ignore law breakers that can’t, or claim they can’t, pay fines? ”
The authorities could have taken his driver’s license, or impounded his car against the fines, or garnished his paycheck. There was no need or justification to jail him.
And when you jail someone pending trial, they are presumed innocent until proven guilty. They are supposed to be fed and kept in decently sanitary conditions, with adequate clothing.
This was cruelty, and murder, that simple.
ASIG, the dude died. Earth to the liberal cadre here, guess what happens to junkies? They die. Sure as the sun sets. Sad? Of course. Tragic? Of course. But if we legalize drugs…blah, blah, blah. You just get more of this
Chicago, he still had money for dope
The cops are the cops. This is the shit they do. This the kind of shit they always have done. It’s just all the cameras everywhere, all the instant on the spot IGadget video and the ultra wide distribution of information across the internet and social media that exposes the behavior of the authorities.. So what’s anyone going to do about it?
Nothing changes until we all pick up our rifles together and use them. Preferably on the bankers first. But that’s not going to happen and even if it does I not participating. I”ll save my ammo to use in an attempt to save my family from all the murdering fuckers that murdered all the other murdering fuckers.
As far as the “Victim” in this case………another junkie bites the dust.. Really bad shit happens to dope addicts.This doper already signed his “life is going to shit on me and then die card” before the scum sucking sub human pigs got to him?
This incident like so many others brought to light will outrage many especially liberals. But remember many liberals have guns too. Soon or later the depredations by the police will lead to wide spread retaliation. We are going to see and hear about more and more cops getting bushwhacked as time goes by.
Nothing changes until we all pick up our rifles together and use them. Preferably on the bankers first. But that’s not going to happen and even if it does I not participating. I”ll save my ammo to use in an attempt to save my family from all the murdering fuckers that murdered all the other murdering fuckers.
Bruce. Love your third paragraph. It’s the sad truth
FUCK HIM …. THAT FUCKING DRUG ADDICT!!!!!!
There’s so little compassion displayed here at times. Not really surprising.
The Pope is in town. Haven’t you been listening to him? He says that every human being has worth, I’ll bet a million bucks many of you would have stoned that harlot back in Jesus’ day.
His drug use had ZERO to do with his murder. Using your logic, why not blame his death on the traffic ticket?? See how dumb that idea is?
OK, so fuckit, he’s just a druggie … let him die a horrible death. No big loss to society. Except for the fact that copfuks generally view all of us as dregs and potential terrorists.
Some of you really read to read and reread The Hangman poem until you get it. They’ll be coming for you soon enough. Who will cry for you … you useless eater?
There will be another Sunday Sermon tomorrow. Perhaps that one will help soften your hearts.
Good night and God Bless (except copfuks)
Not true, stuck. I feel for everybody. But every junkie I’ve ever known died a horrible death. And it’s a choice, it ain’t cancer. Is it ugly to watch? Yes. Is it anyone else’s fault? No
@Stucky
“His drug use had ZERO to do with his murder.”
He died because his body needed certain drugs to manage withdrawal from his drug addiction and he didn’t get them. He didn’t get those drugs due to gross incompetence and ignorance of the police which isn’t murder. How can you say this has ZERO to do with his drug use? It has everything to do with his drug use.
Cause and effect, that’s just reality, Mess with drugs and bad happens.
In a strange way, there’s a valuable lesson in this guy’s death. It’s not about his addiction, or the guards, or jail protocol, or even his parents.
The lesson is that it’s imperative to be the gray man in this fucked up society. Do not allow yourself to be at the mercy of the criminal justice (ha!) system, the cops, or anything that can put you in a situation like this. If you are at their mercy, maybe nothing really bad will happen to you, but what if it does? All the money in the world awarded to your family ain’t gonna do you a bit of good when you are dead.
In addition:
Like I’ve told people in the past. You do not want to be in jail when TSHTF. Also, you don’t want to commit some offense that will enable THEM to “legally” disarm you. Look at the things that you may do that will result in getting your guns taken away. Topping the list is domestic violence, whether you are guilty or not, if the cops show up……. you can say bye-bye to your guns.
Keep cool and keep your head.
I agree with ASIG and starfcker 100%. This guy committed suicide. Not in the classical sense, just in a different way ……… death by dope.
We think we are so just and moral.
We are animals.
This, and a too large percentage of our society, believes their fairytales of morality by word and association, and no amount of proof of our cruelty, or insanity, or downright depravity, will stop them from believing.
It diminishes us, it makes us worse than the evil we feel righteous using our own children to abolish.
Pot meet kettle.
And this is at least the third time in recent memory a Michigan resident, guilty of not much more than misdemeanor/victimless crimes has been murdered in custody.
The Muslims applaud our justice system.
TE, junkies die everyday. It’s their destiny, pretty much a guaranteed outcome. Do you really think it’s preventable? Do you really think it’s not ugly to watch? Do you really think anybody could have saved this particular junkie? Really? For how long? You must not have ever known a junkie. People who deal with junkies see this kind of thing every day. It’s the nature of the beast, suicide, not murder
When it comes to recovery statistics, relapse rates for drug addiction are comparable to relapse rates in people who suffer from high blood pressure, asthma and diabetes, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse:
•30 to 50 percent of people with type 1 diabetes fail to stick with their treatment plan
•50 to 70 percent of people who suffer from asthma fail to take their meds or make recommended lifestyle changes
•50 to 70 percent of people with chronic high blood pressure don’t take their hypertension medication as directed
•40 to 60 percent of drug addicts will relapse from their plan of treatment
@Star, he was under treatment AND registered.
He owed fine in traffic court.
He died because of our regulatory insanity, coupled with public servants with no regards beyond their own pay and benefit package.
Glad to see that people feel self-righteous about spending THOUSANDS of dollars to “punish” an $800 “crime”
A crime with no victims, I should add.
All because he is human and not perfect in the eyes of many.
Makes me sick to my stomach, justify your need to control others all you want, you’ll never convince me that jail or death, no matter the reason, is an appropriate way to treat small time regulation skirters, or drug addicts.
It isn’t cost effective nor is it effective in any way, but damn it sure makes the majority feel better.
We are so fubar, the entire country is insane
TE, there is no cost effective way to deal with guys like that. And the only effective way to deal with them is involuntary commitment to a mental institution. He wasn’t in treatment, he was still totally addicted to drugs, no end in sight. Victimless? Everybody this guy came in contact with was a victim of his choices.
1) that anyone is treated like that in custody is fucked up and wrong
2) having had my home burgled and my kids traumatized as a result by an addict (motherfucker went into their bedrooms and busted open their piggy banks), I could not give one shit if every one of the sorry motherfuckers drops dead tomorrow. Or better yet, today. Guaranteed the kid in the article did some stuff that the victims would have been entitled to blow his head off for. Heroin addicts do not fund their addiction by being hard-working honest citizens.
After we were burgled, the cops came, and said they had a good idea who it was. Said that if they caught him he would be out on the street before the ink dried (they caught him, and he got a few years), but they hoped he would turn up shortly cold with a needle in his arm.
I’ve known plenty of addicts. Heroin, meth and alcohol. Most have died. Some while under treatment. Some while in full on party mode. “Deserve” isn’t exactly the right word to describe what happens to them however, the rest of society doesn’t “deserve” the bullshit they inflict on us.
They reap what they sow. Live by the sword, die by the sword. I have no doubt that they wish things were different but the feeling that caballo gives you while under it’s influence simply cannot be beat. I’ve been there, done that. I know. I was never an addict due to purposeful, infrequent use but still, to this day, nothing compares to it. While not entirely accurate, think how a full body, tip of the hair to tip of your toes, continuous orgasm, several hours long might feel. It’s better than that even. Pretty fucking hard to say no to from a mental perspective and apparently impossible to say no to once the physical addiction sets in.
Once the physical addiction sets in I think they should be put in a room with shoebox full of heroin and told to have a good time. Within days they’ll be gone and trust me, no matter how things look to the observer, the participant will never, ever experience another microsecond of pain, fear or terror.
Fucked up? Absolutely! But it’s no more fucked up than what happens to them now.