UCSD Student Held for 4 and a half Days Without Food and Water Gets $4.1 Million From US Government

This is an absolutely BIZARRE story; sounds like some bad B movie plot. April 2012, student Daniel Chong goes over to a friends house to smoke some weed and hangout. When all of a sudden the DEA and San Diego Police break the door down for a drug raid. Daniel, and 8 others are taken are taken into custody. After his interview, a San Diego Police Officer puts Daniel into a windowless room telling him no charges will be filed against him and they will "come back for him in a minute". But that's not true. For the next 4 and half days Daniel is handcuffed and locked in that room alone with no food or water and NO ONE checks on him. Daniel goes through hell while in that room which was only 8 ft by 10 ft. Daniel urinated on a metal bench so that he would have something to drink, he defecated on himself because, he had no bathroom privileges, on day 3 he started hallucinating, he thought the DEA agents were trying to kill by gassing him through the air vents, and his kidneys failed. Finally on day 4 Daniel was able to get one of his shoe laces under the door and he was screaming his lungs out and finally someone heard him and he was rescued. Wow, can you imagine being locked in a tiny room like that for 4 days? I think he should have gotten $40 million!!! The DEA claims they are flabbergasted and do not know how such an incident could have happened. They now have cameras in all of the cells and do mandatory checks daily. Big WHOOP. That sounds like a dollar short and a day late. This young man could have died! Locking him in a windowless room for 4 days with out food or water is pure torture! I don't know if I could drink my own urine, under any circumstance. (cringes) Daniel was suffering from severe dehydration and kidney failure when he was finally found and he had lost 15 lbs. DEA are still investigating the incident and so far no one has been disciplined or fired over the incident. Personally, I think everyone who participated in the raid should be fired and brought up on charges. They knew how many people were detained that day; and someone should have been keeping an eye on the disposition of each of the detainees. I also think that the San Diego Police officer who put him in the room should fired and charged criminally, and the commanding officer of the DEA unit that did the raid should be fired and charged. How will anyone learn from their mistake unless there are consequences for their actions?