Video Shows Barbaric Attack On Chained Black Men In Ohio Prison (Video)

January 29. 2019

Warning: video contains violent content

A disturbing video has surfaced online of a violent attack in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, regarding four black inmates who were shackled and chained via handcuffs to a table. A white prisoner was permitted to be unshackled and let loose in the same area as the four black men, who were then repeatedly stabbed by the unrestrained inmate.

The men are seen scrambling around the table, helplessly moving as fast as they can to dodge the knife wielding inmate. During the course of the attack, the inmates suffered terrible stab wounds. Blood can be seen pouring down their white shirts and orange pants. It was completely barbaric and cruel.

People are calling the attack a set-up because the men were left chained to the table, while the attacker was free to move around. Critics also state the guards took one minute to arrive at the scene of the attack, then waited three minutes to unchain the inmates.

The attack was committed by inmate Greg Reinke, who is serving life in prison. Reinke was not charged in the attack. Shortly after, Reinke brutally attacked a guard as well. Reinke stabbed guard Matthew Matthias 32 times. He was not charged in that incident either. However, a newly elected county prosecutor, Shane Tieman, decided to charge Reinke for both attacks.

Prisons are not a walk in the park. However, they should not be the subject of savage attacks on defenseless people. The video has outraged social networking and people are demanding answers as to how something of such a terrible nature transpired.

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Video shows brutality of knife attack on helpless inmates

January 25, 2019 - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A newly released video shows the brutality of an Ohio inmate’s knife attack on four other prisoners who were handcuffed to a table and unable to defend themselves. The video obtained by The Associated Press reveals for the first time the extent of the victims’ injuries and raises questions about how the bloody attack happened inside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, one of Ohio’s most secure prisons. Additional security concerns were raised months later when the same prisoner was allegedly involved in a knife attack that left a guard severely injured and hospitalized for months.

Shamieke Pugh was one of the four inmates in the first attack on June 4, 2017. “He was trying to kill us, for sure,” said Pugh, who is now out of prison and recovering from multiple stab wounds in his arm, chest and back. The four prisoners were playing cards during an out-of-cell recreation period...