Police paralyses a man for walking on the sidewalk

[SNJ]

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html

The father of an immigrant visitng his son was subjected to violence and his only crime was being a brown man. Sad.

Hope the cop who did this gets some punishment.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Just a few bad apples....

 

[dmcowen674]

Awesome Murica land of the free.

 

[BoberFett]

Cops simply can't be trusted with the authority they've been given.

 

[Dari]

A link from the link in the OP:

Deaf Man Awarded $165,000 After Police Brutally Beat and Arrested Him For Not Hearing Them

 

[Subyman]

"The caller, who lives in the neighborhood did not recognize the subject and thought him to be suspicious," reads the statement released by police.

Fucking concerned citizens calling in someone simply because they are brown. The whole thing is idiotic. I'd like to hear the phone call the peeper made to the police.

 

[Sunburn74]

To me the worst is the lying. People are imprisoned for years on lies.

I think that the real thing to ask is how can our current police situation be reformed? Grass roots movements really haven't done anything and its currently a very unpopular political stance to have.

 

[brycejones]

Well it was Alabama, at least he wasn't lynched.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Islamophobia at its finest!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rakehellion]

At least he'll never walk again.

 

[inf1nity]

Islamophobia at its finest!!!!!!!!!!

Does that sound like a Muslim name to you?

 

[oobydoobydoo]

Sherrod said he spoke with Sureshbhai Patel at Huntsville Hospital this morning. He said there were two officers present and that Patel was patted down and did not pull away. Sherrod said one officer then pulled Patel's arm up behind him and slung him face first into the ground. He said Patel could not say what happened after that.

"This is just one of those things that doesn't need to happen," said Sherrod, saying the police escalated to violence without cause and left Patel lying bleeding from his face, paralyzed and in need of paramedics. "That officer doesn't need to be on the streets."

Sureshbhai Patel was taken by ambulance to Madison Hospital. Hospital staff called his son at work at 9:42 a.m. on Friday. Chriag Patel found his father at the hospital unable to move his legs and with limited motion in his arms.

From there, due to swelling in the spine, Sureshbhai was transferred to Huntsville Hospital for surgery to fuse two vertebrae. He remains hospitalized. Chirag said his father can now move his right leg a little bit, but the left remains paralyzed. He said his father can raise both arms, but cannot make a tight grip.

He said his father had no health problems prior to this incident.

This reminds me of the generally brutal treatment I see police dole out to citizens. In almost any encounter, if you make a mistake or try to argue the cop will escalate that situation to violence. They will not hesitate to employ violence against children or the elderly, and their limited reasoning and language skills prevent them from finding verbal resolutions to conflicts.

My favorite is when a cop encounters another off duty cop he doesn't recognize, and there is a conflict. It almost always results with one of them getting shot, but in this case they can't just let the cop get off with no punishment. If you want to see how litigation between the public and law enforcement should look, take a peek at those cases.

 

[theeedude]

"This is a good neighborhood. I didn't expect anything to happen,"

Did he miss the part about it being in Alabama?

 

[OBLAMA2009]

the cops were probably just "following their training"

 

[Meghan54]

To me the worst is the lying. People are imprisoned for years on lies.

I think that the real thing to ask is how can our current police situation be reformed? Grass roots movements really haven't done anything and its currently a very unpopular political stance to have.

Probably the best bet would be to use civilian oversight boards at all police depts., but the police depts. hate that idea, as if their internal "investigations" amount to anything realistic.

Of course, you also have to have local/state prosecutors that aren't afraid of the police and will actually bring charges against the "rare" bad apples.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

Cops simply can't be trusted with the authority they've been given.

man, if you look at the demographic that becomes cops, its the same demographic that commits crimes, so no one should be surprised by sheet like this

 

[master_shake_]

maybe the problem isn't police.

maybe the problem is america?

or americans.

 

[Subyman]

maybe the problem isn't police.

maybe the problem is america?

or americans.

Yeah, lets generalize further. Its not about americans, its about humans. No, its about that damn pesky carbon.

 

[trenchfoot]

Maybe it's that some of our LEOs are not willing to sacrifice their egos, their pride, and especially their sense of supremacy and self preservation, all for the common good and their duty to "protect and serve".

 

[child of wonder]

Cops simply can't be trusted with the authority they've been given.

This.

Poor hiring practices, fast tracking war veterans onto the force, the brotherhood mentality of officers willing to break rules and the law to protect each other, lack of personal accountability, corrupting influence of unions, and a sense of superiority to the average citizen whom they feel owe them all encompassing respect breeds a police force overrun with aggressive and violent douche bags. Surprise!

 

[Jaskalas]

I'm afraid foreigners just don't understand American police. If you touch your pockets or make sudden movements then you will likely assaulted (if lucky) or shot. All because our police need to fear guns.

We can best be described as a tense and volatile nation when it comes to interactions with law enforcement. This is another example of the price we pay everyday.
Can we do better?

 

[Mxylplyx]

Perhaps the public should stop all the hero worship of civil servants and police so they can stop feeling like they are above reproach. They are quickly losing their entitlement to benefit of the doubt as incidents like this pile up. It's time for police to seriously rethink when it is appropriate to apply force, with a strong deference to restraint.

 

[Slew Foot]

indian guy? no one cares.

if the guy were black, Brain Williams would claim to be an eyewitness and ut would be national headlines for a year

 

[theeedude]

indian guy? no one cares.

if the guy were black, Brain Williams would claim to be an eyewitness and ut would be national headlines for a year

These kinds of stories sure bring the bigots out of the wood work to shift blame from the racist police to the media, and to pit one victim of racial discrimination against another.

 

[oobydoobydoo]

I've never understood why all citizens are expected to give deference to Police at all times, when the requirements for becoming a police officer are less strenuous that the requirements to become a Scuba instructor. The job doesn't exactly exact the "creme de la creme" of talent either, and it's even worse recently because no decent human being wants to apply for the job and be hated by everyone for working with these jerks.

Cops in the US are going to have to face the facts. They are going to lose authority, a lot of it. They've overplayed their hand, and if the NYPD is any example it only takes a tiny incident to send them cowering into submission should they decide to become thugs again. It's either that, or you are gonna start see bonnie and clyde like killing sprees of law enforcement officers, and the public will eat it up, just like they did in the 30s when the cops were thugs that protected the banks. It can get there again, and people act like this is unprecedented. Cops have been abusing their authority and having it curtailed for the history of this nation. It truly is a profession that just attracts awful people.