A sickening news report from across the Atlantic
Couldn't believe my eyes when a USA, Tampa Florida TV news story reported that four sheriff's deputies had been suspended for tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor. Honestly if I hadn't seen the sickening video clip myself I wouldn't have believed it.
Brian Sterner apparently broke his neck 14 years ago and drives a specially adapted hand-controlled car.
Surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows Hillsborough County deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation.
Sterner, 32, said when he was taken into a booking room and told to stand up, Jones grew agitated when he told her that he could not."She was irked that I wasn't complying to what she was telling me to do," he told the Tampa Tribune in Tuesday's edition. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do."
Couldn't bring myself to put the YouTube video on my blog but you can watch it curtesy of CBS News and read the full story.
Labels: USA news
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