The wide scale discrimination and civil rights violations must be stopped

DELMAR, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, August 11, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Bypassing 911 for the Disabled in New York State is Discrimination in Civil Rights
The Jonathan Carey Foundation's founder Michael Carey has taken every step conceivable to help Governor Cuomo stop the most egregious civil rights violations and discrimination of the disabled in New York State, to no avail. Denying immediate 911 emergency first responder medical and police services is discriminatory, it is extremely dangerous and it is deadly. The horrific reality of this unequal and deadly treatment of people with disabilities in New York continues unabated and unchecked and many deaths deemed “untimely” are a direct result. These are not just “untimely” deaths, they are criminally negligent homicides. It has been like running into a brick wall, trying to convince Governor Cuomo personally and his top staff to do what is right and just for our most vulnerable. The Cuomo administration is knowingly treating 1,000,000 New Yorkers with disabilities differently than other New York State residents and in so doing willfully violating their civil rights to "equal Protection of laws" as guaranteed under the New York State and U.S. Constitutions. Civil rights and equal rights are for everyone, including the disabled.

New Yorkers with disabilities are of no lesser of value or importance than anyone else and New York State cannot continue to treat the disabled differently and deny them immediate 911 emergency services and assistance. The Cuomo administration chooses to look the other way, stonewall and block emergency legislation that directs mandated reporters, witnesses to physical and sexual assault crimes and deaths to immediately call 911. Emergency medical and police first responders cannot assist the disabled or ensure their basic rights to “equal protection of laws” like for any other New York State resident if the 911 call systems continue to be purposefully bypassed, as they are currently.

Tens of thousands of posters and wallet cards are spread out throughout New York State directing mandated reporters that witness abuse and neglect of a person with a disability, which are crimes, to call and report to Cuomo’s abuse hotline wrongfully named the "Justice Center" abuse hotline and NOT to 911. Here lies the extremely dangerous, deadly and discriminatory issue, the 911 call systems were set up decades ago to protect and assist everyone, not to negate and shun the disabled as the Justice Center does on a regular basis. This discrimination which is keeping local police and emergency medical personnel out of the picture is only the tip of the iceberg regarding the systemic cover-ups in New York State that in many cases lead to what they call “untimely” deaths.

Governor Cuomo took significant actions after the award winning New York Times “Abused & Used” investigative reporting series to remove all outside oversight of his abuse hotline thus concealing staggering numbers of crimes and deaths from local authorities. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/abused-and-used-series-page.html?_r=0 The grim reality is Cuomo’s abuse hotline for the disabled receives a massive numbers of calls, over 7,000 every month on average, most with little to no hope of prosecutions. The Justice Center is a whitewash entity where reported cases go to die and in most cases the abusers are protected, not the disabled.

Eleven to twelve people are dying in New York State’s extremely dangerous mental health care system on average every day and most deaths are never investigated as a possible crime, even when large numbers of deaths are individuals dying extremely young. Information obtained through New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) reveal in a large percentage of deaths there was no cause of death determined one to two years later. Other State documents obtained through FOIL reveal another sickening pattern. Most deaths reported to Cuomo’s abuse hotline are NEVER reported to medical examiners or coroners as required by law, its systemic crime that only federal authorities can stop.

It is hard to fathom such levels of discrimination still exists over 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began fighting for civil and equal rights, but it does. Jonathan in an entirely different way suffered and died for a great cause which is to help many other innocent and extremely vulnerable children and adults with disabilities. Jonathan died at the age of 13 because he was disabled and because he was denied immediate 911 first responder medical and police assistance. Jonathan was in dire need of help, he was ignored, he was shunned and Jonathan was discriminated against and as a direct result he was killed. Jonathan’s friends can be help and these egregious human rights, civil rights and equal rights violations can be stopped and great changes can happen when people begin to speak up and stand up against such injustices. Countless lives will be saved if we do.
Stand with us for “equal rights” and “civil rights” for people with disabilities in New York State and throughout our great country by signing our petition at www.jonathancareyfoundation.org. Consider a donation of $9.11 to help 911 become required by law to be immediately called by all mandated reporters regarding all physical and sexual assaults, gross negligence of care, significant and suspicious injuries and when a person with a disability is in medical distress or stopped breathing all together. http://jonathancareyfoundation.org/donate/

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