The blatant civil rights violations must be stopped

DELMAR, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, August 30, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- When a person with a disability is treated unequally and discriminated against, when they are victims of crimes, or in medical distress, in many cases, they die. The 911 emergency call systems were set up decades ago to assist everyone, yet, in New York State and most States throughout the United States, the 911 call systems are purposefully bypassed. This discrimination and gross civil rights violations must be stopped. Obviously, when this discriminatory and unequal treatment, against the disabled, is finally stopped and changed, countless lives will be saved.
In New York State, 11-12 people with disabilities, living outside of their family’s homes, in known unsafe residential care facilities and group homes, are dying every day on average. An immediate and direct 911 reporting law, that would end this gross discrimination and save many lives, continues to be blocked from becoming law by the Cuomo administration, because they have no will or desire to stop these civil rights violations. To put this level of discriminatory behavior in clear context, it is important to bring everyone’s attention back to the battle against similar discrimination that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought against. Unequal treatment and discrimination, tragically, is part of our culture until it is rooted out. People that were African Americans were treated as a lower class citizen and denied equal seating on buses, denied equal seating in restaurants and were not allowed to use the same restrooms or drinking fountains. Currently, people with disabilities are not provided equal privileges to immediate 911 emergency first responder medical and police services, when they are victims of physical or sexual assault crimes, have been significantly injured, are in medical distress or have died as a result of abuse and neglect in NYS care facilities and group homes. Obviously, this discrimination is extremely dangerous and deadly, and when the majority do not care about this specific group of people, their equal rights continue to be violated.
To date, there is no law requiring immediate and direct 911 reporting because former Attorney General Cuomo and now Governor Cuomo, as well as, other top State officials, have refused to assist and protect the most basic rights of the disabled in New York State. As a direct result many innocent people with disabilities are needlessly dying like Jonathan Carey.
Jonathan Michael Carey, was developmentally disabled, he had autism, he was primarily non-verbal and he was diagnosed with PTSD from child abuse that he suffered at the hands of the Anderson School now called the Anderson Center for Autism in Staatsburg, New York. http://autismschoolabuse.com/Abuse_at_Anderson_School.html Jonathan was denied his food and meals for weeks for behavior modification, when he failed to put his t-shirt on. Jonathan was secluded and physically bruised over most of his body. Jonathan was a victim of many crimes committed against him, yet, no mandated reporters at Anderson called 911 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbiYJkiX-Dg. Day after day, for an extended period of time, Jonathan, was discriminated against and physically and emotionally harmed. Jonathan never fully recovered from the abuse at Anderson School and later he became a victim of abuse and neglect, again, at the now closed OD Heck NYS Developmental Facility where unfortunately, he was ultimately killed by his caregivers at OD Heck, at the young age of 13 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/boys-death-highlights-crisis-in-homes-for-disabled.html . The 911 emergency call system was never called; Jonathan never had a chance in a discriminatory system, set up to protect the abusers, instead of the disabled. http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000000849083/a-failure-to-protect.html
As Jonathan’s dad, who has been catapulted into the advocacy world, has found out over many years now, since Jonathan was killed in 2007 that the system, as a whole, is an absolute disaster, extremely dangerous and deadly and a very small group of people seem to care. It is a travesty, that most advocacy groups and provider agencies, have remained virtually silent, even after the award winning New York Times “Abused & Used” investigative reporting series, that was a runner up for a Pulitzer prize, which exposed much of the horrors happening behind closed doorshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/abused-and-used-series-page.html?_r=0 .
There has been overwhelming silence by the Federal Oversight Agency, Disability Rights New York (DRNY), as the rampant abuse, neglect, deaths, cover-ups, and civil rights violations continue. DRNY was handpicked to be the sole oversight of the disabled in New York State by Governor Cuomo, who chose a former employee of his to be the Executive Director of DRNY. The main reason DRNY and provider agencies remain silent is due to the massive amounts of money they are making off the disabled. Those involved in positions of authority, are far more concerned about their lucrative salaries than the safety, health and lives of the disabled. New York State’s mental health care system is primarily concerned about enriching politically connected individuals and entities, and hiding the massive scope of damages and loss of human lives, while providing unsafe care and services.
Michael Virtanen of the Associated Press has been following up the NY Times “Abused & Used” series, due to the fact, that nothing significant has been changed to stop the rampant abuse, neglect, and deaths or the cover-pups of abuse, neglect and the deaths of people with disabilities. Two extremely damning AP News pieces reveal the fact that when 911, local police, District Attorney’s and Medical Examiners or Coroners are bypassed, which is clear discrimination, many innocent people die as a result.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/34c9c059196a4b70bc8ded92d2fbe4b7/9-deaths-no-charges-raise-questions-about-oversight-agency
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/27b17232ed3c41d1b79db9c444e0e484/new-protocol-agency-sent-death-reports-nowhere

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 a required 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 has stopped breathing. http://jonathancareyfoundation.org/donate/

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