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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 09:02 AM Aug 2015

WATCH: Disabled vet rips cop who told him he couldn’t park in handicap spot because ‘you can walk’

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/watch-disabled-vet-rips-cop-who-told-him-he-couldnt-park-in-handicap-spot-because-you-can-walk/



A Riviera Beach police officer

WATCH: Disabled vet rips cop who told him he couldn’t park in handicap spot because ‘you can walk’
Tom Boggioni
10 Aug 2015 at 09:56 ET

A Florida police officer received an earful from a disabled veteran after harassing him for parking in a handicap spot in front of a Walgreen’s store, despite the fact that the veteran had a handicap sticker in his window.

In the video — uploaded to Facebook — the veteran identifies himself as Isiah James and goes off on an expletive-filled tirade against the officer. He explains that he received multiple wounds after serving three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and being blown up eight times by “motherf*cking IEDs.”

Things turn even more contentious after the officer, identified as G. Wilson, smacks the camera out of the veteran’s hand — cracking the screen — and causing James to call for another officer saying Wilson is “out of control.”

“Officer, I’m a damned disabled veteran,” James explains to the Riviera Beach officer.
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WATCH: Disabled vet rips cop who told him he couldn’t park in handicap spot because ‘you can walk’ (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2015 OP
Holy shit. This is shocking. No call for that cop to do that. MADem Aug 2015 #1
someone is going to learn a whole lot about the ADA SoLeftIAmRight Aug 2015 #2
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