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I found a Dead Beat Dad that was literally "beat dead" and no
one cares.
Dads have been suffering abuse over this "Deadbeat Dad" myth
for quite a while. It was quite clear to me back in 1975 when
the Senior Citizen's were outraged at how much money was being
spent on Welfare that the answer from the Welfare Department
that it was those "Deadbeat Dads" was just a lie, since they
only gave Welfare to a house where there was no man in house.
Welfare spending has steadily increased, as has the propaganda
campaign and hate crimes against Dads.
When I was subject to a false arrest and imprisonment, with
no law supporting it, I figured that it would take a Dad being
killed over this to put an end to it. I guess I was naive.
This man that was beaten dead lived in the "Live Free or Die"
state, in Milford, NH. (Check out their quarters). Also check
out how the NH Supreme Court was torn up over a divorce of one
of their own. While I was talking to Bob Cheney, another man
unlawfully jailed over child support, (another monster story), I
mentioned to him that it would take someone dying, and he
mentioned that Paul Clements had told him about just such a man.
His name is
Brian Armstrong.
I've spoken with his mother several times, and Evelyn
Armstrong explained to me how Brian loved his son. She explained
how his drinking problem got much worse after his divorce from
being unable to see his child, and how he still loved his wife,
despite the divorce. He was working at McDonald's and Burger
King, just trying to do something. ... On Tuesday, January
11th of 2000,
Brian Armstrong was arrested with no warrant, no paperwork,
and put him into the
Milford, NH Valley Street jail. (They probably make $125/day
off keeping him there, it's the going rate..) The Sheriff
claimed that if the parents coughed up $4,000 that they wouldn't
arrest him. (Ever heard of debtors' prison?). Brian was working
at McDonald's and Burger King at the time, having a hard time
even keeping those jobs because of his alcohol problem, but they
claimed that he could pay $4,000?
We have an Appellate Court decision in New Jersey, Weinstein
v. Weinstein that specifically declares that putting a man in
jail on a release amount that you have not shown that he can pay
is debtor's prison. Debtor's prison was outlawed more than 200
years ago by President Adams, and was one of the primary reasons
that people left England and came to the "Land of the Free". The
man that funded our revolution, William Morris, spent 3 years in
debtor's prison on Spruce Street just down the road from the
Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, because rather than paying him
back we gave him back swamp land and taxed him on it.
At least he survived the
Debtor's Prison. On the following Friday morning Brian
Armstrong's parents got a call from the prison to come and get
him, and the bail was suddenly reduced to $2,000, then $1,000.
When the nurses helped Brian walk out of the prison, they told
his parents to take him directly to the hospital, that he would
not survive if they took him home.
When he got to the Hospital, the Hospital immediately called
the police, because they knew that he had been beaten and that
he was going to die.
Evelynn described the injuries on Brian's body to me. Big bruise
on the back of his head, a concussion, and bruises all over the
front of his body.
The same week, an INS detainee (a man) died in the same
prison. It was such a big story that Janet Reno personally got
involved. It lead to all INS detainees being no longer held in
that prison, and several changes all over the country with INS
detainees. But they eventually declared this INS detainee's
death due to "natural causes". That same week an INS detainee
was raped at the Valley Street jail, (a woman), they are however
actively prosecuting that.
Brian Armstrong died on Tuesday, January 18th, 2000. A few
months after Brian Armstrong's death, I spoke to his ex-wife,
and she confirmed what I had heard about Brian's death. She also
told me that despite Brian's son, Matthias, having gone to the
funeral, that he was still asking "Where's Daddy?", and it was
tearing her apart.
It was even worse for her since she had lost her father when
she was a child also. Evelynn Armstrong told mehow Matthias
refuses to play baseball anymore, since that was the primary
thing that he used to do with daddy. There was an
investigation, so I thought that something would happen, and let
the story go. ... But there was nothing happening in the
investigation of the death of
Brian Armstrong. ...
In discussing Father's Day 2001 with Stuart Miller, I
mentioned the Brian Armstrong story, and he mentioned that he
had just spoken to a man that witnessed the beating death of
Brian Armstrong. That he was in the jail at the same time. I
emailed him, and then talked with him, and he described what he
saw. He had been in prison for refusing to pay the
college tuition for the children that he hasn't seen in years.
(Strangely enough, they went to Columbine High School.)
Bob Burke described how the man that he saw assaulted was
thrown backwards onto the back of his head, and lay on the floor
on his back, unmoving and apparently unconscious, while the
guards ran in and beat on him. What Bob described as
what he saw, matches exactly what Evelynn told me the injuries
were that she saw when she took Brian to the hospital. I knew
that he wasn't making it up.
I decided to rent a broadcast quality camera and tape Bob
testifying as to what he saw. It turns out that Bob also was a
few doors down from the cell where the INS detainee died, and he
doesn't think that it was "natural causes".
I drove up with my daughter and installed the computer for
Matthias. His mother refused to be interviewed, but Evelynn and
Harold, Brian's father, agreed to be interviewed, and Bob Burke
came over and we interviewed them all on tape. During the
interview with Evelynn and Harold, we discovered that they had a
copy of the Autopsy, which they were too distressed to even
read.
My daughter read the autopsy and found that the corner had
made some significant statements:
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CONCLUSION:
It is my opinion
that Brian Armstrong, a 41 year old white male, died as
a result of blunt impact injury of the head sustained
when he was pushed backwards, fell and struck the back
of his head on a firm, unyielding surface.
CAUSE OF DEATH:
Blunt impact
injury of head with cerebral contusions, constusional
hematomas, cerebral edema and herniation.
MANNER OF DEATH:
Homicide.
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This report was done on 3/6/2000. We just saw it in February
of 2001. I asked Evenlyn and Harold if anyone had ever contacted
them. They told me that no one from the authorities ever
contacted them. But one local cop came up and said "I'm sorry"
to Evelynn. I asked about any investigation, and she said that
she didn't know of any investigation. Then we interviewed
Bob Burke, and he described what he had seen. He also described
how he had called up the State AG and the Federal US Attorney
responsible for investigating the death, and that no one called
ever him back. Bob hasn't moved for years. It's quite clear that
there is no investigation. They didn't attempt to contact anyone
that was in the prison at the time. The other man that stepped
forward and said that he saw Brian Armstrong get attached, was
transfered to another prison, and was beaten to death at that
prison. Bob might have gotten another investigation started back
up again, but nothing is really happening.
I have the
Autopsy, if you want to see it.
I also have the video tapes. Give me an address and I'll send
them to you.
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