My brother has a C6 spinal injury, and while he can move his arms (although not all the muscles), he has no control over his fingers. He can grasp objects, with some diffculty, by careful use of his forearms and wrists, and that only after months in recovery.
I refuse to see the video in question, BTW. Too close to home. If anyone did something like that to my little brother…
This pisses me off on many levels. I KNOW that many many police officers are good people. But the blue wall of silence does exist.
We just saw it on the video where supervisors did not report the incident with the man being dumped out of the wheel chair.
I had something happen to me a few years ago. Understand that I live in a remote (by most peoples standards) area, and am in a ‘mountain contemporary’ passive solar house.
I have some plastic on the insides of the windows to conserve heat.
I was home one day, waiting for my Wife. She was a bit overdue.
TWO Sheriffs vehicles pulled up. One had a drug dog in it.
I nearly collapsed when I went out to meet them. I was sure something had happened to my Wife.
Nope, they don’t know anything about my wife, but my address was used for someone that had jumped bail. From a town 100 miles away (my address is listed in a phone book perhaps 1/2 inch thick, it would not be available to someone in jail in that city).
They couldn’t give me any specifics. Only that this bail jumper had a lot of aliases.
I was upset, and relived that my wife was apparently OK. Under duress, I let them in my house to search for this ‘bail jumper’.
Local Deputies now chase down bail jumpers from another town and county? I doubt that.
And take two cars and a drug dog to do it? They where looking for drugs, but did not want to get a warrant to do it.
I made some calls. I did not get any info. Nobody knew anything.
There are way too many people with small minds and too much power out there.
As to why the victim was in jail for 5 days I doubt people who think it’s OK to do that type of thing would help him reach and dial a phone and I don’t think they were in such a rush for him to call a lawyer.
The one thing equally as horrible as the dumping is that people who are quadriplegics can die from being handled wrong or from having hidden injuries and they’re just flopping him around like a rag doll. Those police officers should be in jail now, any of us would be if we did the same thing.
Thank God the “cunt” that dumped the guy in the wheelchair isn’t white, and the victim <insert race here>.
Assuming you’re using Internet Explorer:
Go to http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php and copy the URL of the YouTube video into the box. It’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBAR-wi_uFM
That’s the forty-second video of just the incident without any commentary.
Press the “Get Link” button. That’ll make a link appear under the box that says “Download Link.” Do a right-click “Save Target As” on that link. Change the “Save As Type” (the bottom box) to “All Files.” Next, erase the long filename that it suggests as a default in the box above that and rename it to something with an .flv extension (e.g. “evilcop.flv”).
Since Flash video isn’t a standard desktop format, you’ll need to download and install the free FLV Player here to view it.
That should make everything work for you. Just let me know if you have any questions.
Update:
The Deputy has been charged:
Yes, and her present whereabouts are unknown; sheriff’s department baffled as to why she hasn’t turned herself in.*
*From a local news story last night.
Maybe the wheelchair person called the cop dude.
Why wouldn’t they? Other departments ask for help in from other jurisdictions all the time. In my experience it happens much more often than having the other jurisdiction drive out to find someone.
How do you know it was a drug dog? Was it wearing a sign? Could just as easily been a people finding dog or a bite his arm until we can get him cuffed dog.
Not saying you are wrong but your reasoning is flawed.
Not necessarily. Could be he just didn’t write the post with enough of the relevant facts to support the conclusion.
Ok I should have said your reasoning as you stated without any other facts you decided to leave out and of course the fact that I wasn’t actually there and we can’t ask the officers involved for their side of the story and maybe you just might not be a very good writer and have problems putting your thoughts in writing is flawed. I thought it was implied.
ETA: thats why I said he might not be wrong. Because as stated his reasoning is flawed.