As most people on here know, I live in Tampa. I have been watching this video for the last two days and have been fielding calls from my family and friends around the neighborhood.
They especially while my outlook as I was a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper in St. Petersburg for a little more than a year back in the 80s. They know I have dealt with taking disabled people in jail and wanted to hear my outlook. Frankly I think the Florida Attorney General had the exact same reaction I had. http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/14/attorney-general-appalled-disabled-inmates-treatme/ What I wanted to know immediately was why this particular sheriff's deputy was not charged. If this had been some regular citizen dumping a deputy on the ground, they would have been in cuffs lickety-split. While I understand the complexity of trying to search someone who is wheelchair-bound and knowing that some people fake paralysis in an effort to get out of going to jail, I think it was patently obvious that this particular individual had been paralyzed for quite some time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1k-wMFiYs8 Even Governor Charlie Crist has weighed in on this particular issue. >From what I heard initially from this individual was that each is simply wanted to bring this to light to make sure it doesn't happen again. http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/14/na-disabled-man-wants-deputy-charged/?imw=Y Quadius On 2/12/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think he had any broken ribs. He just thought he did. > The main thing is wrong was done and he did not deserve the justice that > was given by a sheriff deputy, acting like a judge. The American justice > doesn't work that way and I'm sure that before this is over, you will hear a > lot more noise and action from the disAbled Community and the Legal System. > Damages for this kind of needless exercise will cost the Sheriff's Office > more than a million dollars. Wait and see. > Best Wishes > > In a message dated 2/12/2008 2:53:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm trying to find more on the story. I saw it on the news (CNN) this > morning. He had several broken ribs from the incident. > Dianna > > > > > ------------------------------ > The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL > Music takes you there.<http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565> >
