Quadriplegic guy in a wheelchair gets hauled into jail on a traffic warrant. (He drives a car converted for use with hand pedals.)
In the booking room, a deputy tells the guy to “stand up”, gets agitated when he does not comply, walks behind the wheelchair, and then dumps him out by tipping the wheelchair forward. She then proceeds to search him while he’s on the floor.
Story and pictures here.
What’s almost as appalling as the deputy’s actions are those of her supervisors and peers, who apparently did nothing to stop or correct her. In a perfect world, the Good Cops present would take her gun, shove her badge up her posterior sideways without the benefit of lubrication, and propel her out of the door by means of a size 12 boot to give her a running start to the unemployment office, where she could find a vocation more suited for her personality, because police officer isn’t it.
She’d make a dandy TSA employee, though.
6 Comments
February 13, 2008 at 11:02 am
I heard the cash register sound when that cop did that.
I’m sure there are lawyers aplenty lined up to do this one.
February 13, 2008 at 11:52 am
The Chief Deputy has said that “Nothing short of termination” is an acceptable resolution in this case, so it’s not like the department’s circling the wagons around her. Apparently she’s definitely getting the boot, and all the other deputies present are suspended while the investigation goes on.,
February 13, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Or the DMV. Or Sensitivity Trainer…
February 13, 2008 at 5:56 pm
…..dandy TSA employee.
True Dat!
February 14, 2008 at 8:58 am
[...] First up, is the officer who decided that, while booking a quadriplegic, it’d be funny to ask him to stand from his wheelchair. And then dumps him to the floor for not complying. [...]
February 23, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I hate to nitpick, but I will anyway – would the victim in this case not be a paraplegic rather than a quadriplegic, if capable of driving a car with hand pedals?