[kellyhound]

A Falkenburg Road Jail inmate attacked a detention deputy and attempted to strangle him Tuesday afternoon.

Hillsborough County detention deputy D. Hernandez was attacked from behind as an inmate, 22-year-old Kiondre Zachery, seen on surveillance video (Two angles) tried to strangle him with a towel.

The unprovoked attack happened in a pod with approximately 72 inmates, the sheriff’s office said.

“My white shirt was scarlet, I bled quite a bit,” retired detention deputy Nelson Birch told. Birch’s neck was sliced by an inmate in November 2007. Seeing the recent attack on Hernandez made him relive his own brush with death.

“I'm sure he'll make it but even to this day I go to counseling, and I was diagnosed with PTSD,” Birch said. I go to counseling every seven days. There's many nights you'll wake up in a sweat and you'll relive that incident. I don't call it a dream I call it a nightmare.”

Birch said he had to get five stitches and the jailhouse shank, made with a toothbrush and razor blade, missing his jugular by inches. Birch didn't even know he was wounded until the inmate told him, “I cut you, man!”

Birch went back to work for another two years. The retired 16-year-veteran hopes Hernandez won’t change his career path. But cautions, you just never know when someone will attack.

“Like I said, remember the word complacency, and if you don't think it can happen to you it can and that is exactly what the inmate is looking for,” Birch said.

Investigators said Hernandez was the victim of an unprovoked attack and never saw it coming. Unfortunately, the sheriff’s office says these types of attacks happen more often than they’d like.

“This incident highlights the extreme danger the men and women working at the Hillsborough County Department of Detention Services face everyday,” a release from the sheriff’s office said.

“It also shows that because most inmates know that the deputies inside the pods are not adversaries and are treated fairly and with respect.

Due to the overall professionalism and respect that detention deputies display towards the inmates on a daily basis, the inmates came to the deputy's aid preventing the deputy from being seriously injured.”

Hernandez received a twisted ankle, bruised knee, and abrasions to his neck as a result of the attack.

Zachary is now facing a new charge of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer. He was being held in jail for an unrelated burglary charge.

Zachary was uninjured and transferred to an isolation cell.

[Oswald2001]

Another Son of OBama.

They should give him the Brazilian 'Rubber Arm' treatment...with no medical care afterward.

[zin0]

Damn even some of the inmates tried to help.

[FunkPumpkin]

Originally Posted by zin0 ↗

Damn even some of the inmates tried to help.

The jail I worked at (as a police dispatcher) was overcrowded, much like this one I suspect. A lot of the inmates were repeat-offenders in on drug-related charges. Our local prosecuting attorney refused to pursue drug-related cases. That, in addition to a cream-puff judge that gave many frequent-flier dirtbags way-softer treatment than they deserved.

What that adds up to, for a lot of these inmates, is that jailtime is just kicking back until your trial date. When that happens, go get your slap on the wrist and go the fuck home. They don't want trouble that would give them more serious charges that could lead them being sent to a real jail (like DOC Jefferson City, MO.)

So I bet that was part of the reason inmates helped or just did nothing/ran away. They didn't want to catch any shit from that asshole's bad decision.