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Floating Lib Dem supporter from St Georges Ward, Islington North - a tough blonde 'cookie' having her say. Over the years she's been an Exec member of Islington, the London Region & English party and has sat on many other Federal party committees. Now unshackled from 'saying it as it is' she continues to write about party matters, some international issues and personal musings. Plus snippets of news from Camden and Islington

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

A sickening news report from across the Atlantic


The most nauseating news story I have heard for a long time.

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.

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