Oklahoma County jail employees face charges for playing "Baby Shark" to prisoners on loop

[NewYorkExpress]

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/519950-former-jail-employees-face-charges-for-playing-baby-shark-on

Three former employees of an Oklahoma jail are facing misdemeanor cruelty charges after they allegedly forced inmates to stand for hours in handcuffs while listening to the children’s song “Baby Shark,” according to multiple reports.

Christian Miles and Gregory Butler, former Oklahoma County Jail detention officers, and their former supervisor, Christopher Hendershott, were all charged on Monday with cruelty to prisoners, as well as corporal punishment and conspiracy charges.

At least four inmates were allegedly secured to a wall with their hands cuffed as the song played on a loud volume on loop for as long as two hours, according to The Oklahoman. The incidents occurred in an attorney visitation room in November and December.

[ProudModerate2]

Oh God.
That would be torturous.
That song drives me bananas.

[GP270watch]

 Certainly qualifies as a cruel and unusual punishment.

[Zohranism is OUR future]

I am no legal expert, but I am pretty sure that is considered a war-crime.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

Cool, so I can have my son charged for punishing me in this way?  Good to know.

[afleitch]

Cool, so I can have my son charged for punishing me in this way?  Good to know.

But you're daddy shark.

[Badger]

This sounds like an onion article submitted by an intern, but rejected by the editors as too silly and unbelievable.

[dotard]

Tbh the people who wrote this song should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity. I truly believe that Mark Zuckerberg, Shery Sandberg, and them are the only civilians that deserve this fate. Maybe the people who created the minions too.

[NewYorkExpress]

This sounds like an onion article submitted by an intern, but rejected by the editors as too silly and unbelievable.

And yet it actually happened.

[emailking]

I've never understood why people don't like that song. I dig it.

If it was The Song that Doesn't End, I could understand.

[Skunk]

Oklahoma is not a real state.

[NewYorkExpress]

Oklahoma is not a real state.

This from the woman who lives in Downtown Tulsa.