Deputy arrested in wheelchair dump video

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. - A deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa jailhouse floor turned herself in.

Jail records show Charlette Marshall-Jones was booked into the Orient Road Jail early Saturday morning.

It is the same jail where Marshall-Jones worked. She is accused of tipping 32-year-old Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair. A videotape of the incident has been widely circulated.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_re_us/wheelchair_dumping

[theoldman]

1. She deserves a kick in the ass.

It's obvious that she has not had proper training. If the poor bastard had a stroke she probably would have thought he was drunk.

[LisaL]

6. I don't think you need any training to figure out you should not

be dumping disabled persons out of their wheel chairs.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

19. Damn right, lizzy

Basic Hummanity 101 should cover it.
I used to live in Tampa and my office wasn't far from the Orient Rd jail.
Payback.

[dogfacedboy]

13. No, it's obvious that she is a fucking moron.

That is why some cops deserve the name PIG.

[nebula]

20. They deserve to be cleaning toilets for the rest of her life

Her and the cops who stood around and did nothing.
They should never be allowed to work another day in law enforcement again.

[sasquatch]

31. No, they shoud be forced to connect the hose to porti-potties the rest of her life

They shouldn't even be allowed to drive the truck.

[derzauberberg]

16. What's the latest with the cop and the kid on the skateboard?

What has happened with respect to the cop who took the kid down for not showing enough "respect" to the uniform? This cop was pretty out of control too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc

I recommend a full congressional investigation and hearing concerning abusive police practices against the country -- I'm sick of hearing these stories dribble out one or two or three a week but without anything being done.

[bluestateguy]

2. I'm going to try and phrase this as carefully as I can

What value is there to the community when a severely disabled person is arrested? Why did the man have to be arrested at all? I'm sorry, but unless a quadriplegic has committed heinous, horrible crimes, he/she should never be arrested. That's just stupid.

[LisaL]

3. Traffic violation. This guy was arrested for a traffic violation.

[sam sarrha]

7. blocking trafic crossing the road, he was dumped for not standing up when told to..

[Xithras]

36. Where'd you read that he was crossing the road? I thought he was driving.

FWIW, the guy is a partial quadriplegic, not a full one. I watched a video interview with him, and he has only lost control of a few muscles in his arms. He still owns and drives a car with hand controls, and it was my understanding that he'd done something to get arrested while actually driving it.

[pop goes the weasel]

26. it was ok that he was arrested

The guy doesn't contest that he even deserved to be arrested, because he had failed to appear for his court date on a traffic ticket. But he didn't deserved to be assaulted because of it. He's pointing out that, if the local LEOs are willing to abuse a white quadraplegic while cameras are rolling, chances are that they are doing even worse things to other people where there are no cameras.

[Fridays Child]

4. So happy to read this.

eom

[LifeIsSweet]

5. That's great news

Proper training has nothing to do with what this officer did to that man. Common sense is you don't dump a paraplegic from his wheelchair, at a minimum if you're a cop you wouldn't do it on film.

[Joanne98]

8. GOOD

[RantinRavin]

9. Here is the arrest report - public records

http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/pub/default.asp?/Online/qdisp/bn=08010478

[provis99]

12. just one charge of "adult abuse"?

What's that, a class C misdemeanor? How come she's not up on Aggravated Assault? The guy had broken ribs, fer chrissakes!

[sasquatch]

32. No it's a felony Class 3

[McCamy Taylor]

10. It was a very bad incident, but I will make a point--Black and Latino po's get charged more often

than Whites when it comes to cases of official misconduct in the South.

She deserved to be charged, but I would like to see a White po who did the same thing also get charged. Unfortunately, in the South it is quite likely that a White male would get away with suspension.

[LifeIsSweet]

14. I don't doubt it

Racism and crimes against Gays and Lesbians still occur, and are often condoned and brushed under the rug.

[dogfacedboy]

15. The main problem is --- it's the South. That shit wouldn't fly here in RealityLand.

[1monster]

17. Don't kid yourself. Some of the worst race riots happened in BOSTON

during the seventies because of bussing black kids to predominately white schools and white kids to predominately black schools.

I remember the shock that went through the nation that such blantant racism exited in the north.

[dogfacedboy]

35. That is true. There are subhumans everywhere. However...

...there are large numbers of "people" in the South that will have to evolve by leaps and bounds before I ever change my opinions on that region. I do not believe that ALL from the South are sub-standard, but where are the voices of those who do not fit the well deserved sterotype? What actions do they take to change their world?

[pipoman]

27. That is idiotic

wasn't it NYC police who anally raped the Latino man a few years ago? It is this attitude of Dems of all people which has cost the us the southern Dem votes and national elections in the last several election cycles. Talk about sheltered. You should really get out more.

[sasquatch]

33. "wasn't it NYC police who anally raped the Latino man a few years ago?"

Yes and all the cops that were involved went to prison. In Florida when all those boot camp guards killed that teenager on videotape they were all acquitted. You see that's the difference between the north and the south, when we see a problem we fix it, when they see a problem they laugh it off or sweep it under the rug. If you don't believe go talk to Mike Malloy, Bob Kincaid and Bartcop.

[dogfacedboy]

34. Thank You n/t

[The Wizard]

18. The officer

who ass raped Abner Louima with a plunger got 30 years.

[Psephos]

28. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with inhumanity

We will never be rid of the corrosive effects of xenophobia as long as race keeps being identified as hypersalient by commenters like yourself. We are individuals, not categories.

The issue here is that a cop behaved criminally to a quadraplegic arrestee.

[colorado_ufo]

11. GOOD!

[Karenina]

21. Go to jail. Go directly to jail.

Do not pass go.

[HuffleClaw]

22. ok, so now arrest that clown who throttled the kid with the skateboard

and send him to the clink

[angrycarpenter]

23. How about this.

In west palm beach my then brother-in-law had his first ever epileptic seizure at the wheel of his van. He woke up in the hospital with a broken cheek bone. Not from the wreck, it was very minor,but from being dragged from the van and being thrown on the ground by the policeman who car he had hit. He thought he was drunk and would not step out when ordered.

[Psephos]

29. Self-important, medically ignorant and unobservant are not good qualities for a cop

Now do the thought experiment of imagining what would happen if Joe Citizen "inadvertently" broke an epileptic cop's cheekbone.

The employment application form for new cops should have just one line on it: "Do you want to be a cop?"

If the applicant answers yes, then the form should be tossed in the wastebasket. Prolly wouldn't be a bad idea to do that for presidents, either.

Hope your bro is doing ok.

[angrycarpenter]

30. No idea , I have been divorced for 17 years.

and live 700 miles away. Cops are mostly the schoolyard bullies and the ones they picked on, either to keep a arbitrary position of authority or to gain one.

I am sure that there are many good cops who have their hearts in the right place but it does not make up for the ones who scream "Respect my authority"

[NashVegas]

24. People in the Criminal Justice System / Professions Need More Vacation Time

Basically, you're working with the lowest of the low in society; is there anyone who doesn't believe it hardens a person? There is one DUer, a nurse in the prison system, whose hardness can sometimes seem shocking.

The public servants need more downtime and maybe even a regular visit with a therapist, IMO.

[pop goes the weasel]

25. damn right!

I used to argue this with a woman who worked with law enforcement, and she actually got all defensive. She couldn't even see that I was arguing for a benefit that would help cops be better cops for a longer time period. I think an annual two month vacation and maybe a year off every few years would go a long way toward helping officers keep their own mental health. Everyone with a really stressful job should be able to look forward to taking a lengthy break during which they can reconsider their commitment to the job that is being held for them.

But be that as it may, there is no excuse for dumping a person out of a wheelchair. I don't care how much stress someone is under, or how little training they may have received. And there's no excuse for standing idly by when someone else does it, and certainly not for laughing about it. How they got so far in life without someone having hit them with a clue-by-four is a wonder and disappointment.