Man Dumped From Wheelchair by Deputy.

[Zookeeper]

"A sheriff's deputy in Florida has been suspended after dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair onto the floor to search him at a prison booking facility. Three other deputies that looked on, have been placed on administrative leave."

What possible excuse could the cop come up with for this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjcnkZpcr6Y&feature=related

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. She didn't believe him when he told her he was a cripple - Dubya OK'd "any means" to get "truth"

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Seems like people down there are OK with Dubya's tactics.

(sigh)

[tuckessee]

6. Don't blame dubya.

This kind of behavior has been standard for cops since the dawn of time.

[L0oniX]

2. I am suprised they didn't tazer him.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Bob Marley manifested himself in slightly altered form in my head

I shot the Sheriff
But I should've shot the deputy...

[0007]

4. And we wonder why other counties hate us.

The cop who done this should be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his goddamn life. Administrative leave isn't good enough for this rank cock sucker.

[atreides1]

5. The deputy was a her!

And the onlookers were placed on administrative leave with pay, the deputy who dumped the man was suspended without pay.

[Zookeeper]

7. WTH?!! Here's another one of a man in a wheelchair being...

beaten by a cop after the cop put handcuffs on the man's ankles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsv8tkFpKI&feature=related

Edited to change link. This one has a description of the event:

"Cop caught on tape beating man in wheelchair could be back on the beat in April. Now, Chicago's new top cop says he will take a 'hard, close look' at the case

Officer William J. Cozzi is one of three officers who pleaded guilty last year to misdemeanor battery for beating people in 2005. Surveillance cameras recorded each of the separate incidents.

The soundless video shows Randle Miles, now 62, sitting in a wheelchair in the lobby of the emergency room at Norwegian-American Hospital in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Miles was in the hospital for a stab wound to the shoulder. He apparently was intoxicated, uncooperative with the hospital's staff and verbally abusive to officers when they were called, authorities say.

A 42-second snippet of video shows Cozzi, who was on duty, shackling Miles' legs to the wheelchair, then striking Miles about 10 times — finishing with a roundhouse blow.

Cook County prosecutors have said Cozzi struck Miles with a "blackjack" — a small baton.

Miles required stitches, said his attorney, Timothy Whiting, whose law firm obtained a $125,000 settlement from the city. "He is harmless," Whiting said of Miles."
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Based on the number of videos that have surfaced lately of cops beating or tasering women, children and even men who aren't in a position to be threatening, I'm beginning to suspect that this is standard operating procedure.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. " misdemeanor battery "????? - yeah - that'll teach them -

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"A 42-second snippet of video shows Cozzi, who was on duty, shackling Miles' legs to the wheelchair, then striking Miles about 10 times — finishing with a roundhouse blow."

That guy is SICK.

But then so is USA's President.

(sigh)

[Zookeeper]

11. If the department can't fire him, they should at least assign him...

to a desk job as far away from other people as possible. But, it's clear from the non-reaction of his fellow officers that his abusive behavior was tolerated, if not encouraged.

Hooray for cellphone cameras, people with conscience enough to make police surveillance tapes public and for YouTube!

[Warpy]

8. "Quad personality"

It's well known among caretakers. Quads become almost like borderline personalities: demanding, intensely manipulative, impossible to please, emotionally draining. They have to be this way to survive because you're their arms and legs, their very ability to breathe in many cases. Caretakers know all this and can manage to cope with the personality changes. Families need a lot of education to be able to do so.

The cops had no clue. They were just confronted by what they saw as a sociopath. Quads might be physically helpless, but they're not defenseless.

No, there's no excuse for this behavior. Walking away and leaving him alone would have been more of an answer. However, cops just aren't trained to deal with people who don't fit the norm the way quads do.

The suspension is appropriate. Now let's hope there's a little education from caregivers to that police department.

[Zookeeper]

9. That may be (and I certainly didn't know that), but it doesn't....

in anyway justify just dumping him on the floor or otherwise mistreating him. If he had actually been mentally ill, they wouldn't be justified in treating him abusively.

I do understand that you're not condoning it, though.

It's similar to the video of the skateboarding kid and the bully cop. Yeah, the kid was being snotty, but could this have really been the first time the cop encountered a snotty teen? One would hope that public servants would have a clue about how to deal with unpleasant personalities besides using unnecessary force.