"Deputies dump paralyzed man from wheelchair"
"MyFox Tampa Bay" (12 Feb 2008)
I wish this was a joke, but it isn't.
Brian Sterner's been a quadriplegic since he was 18: the result of a spinal injury from a wrestling accident.
Deputy Charlotte Marshall Jones picked him and his wheelchair up, dumped him onto the jailhouse floor, and searched him. He landed on his head, but what the hey: It was probably easier to frisk him this way.
She made a serious mistake, though: the whole performance was recorded on a security camera.
Mr. Sterner isn't what I think of, when the phrase "dangerous criminal" comes up. But you never know: "Records show his arrest was due to charges of fleeing and attempting to elude a law enforcement officer from an incident on October 25, 2007. Those same records show Sterner was cited at that time for blocking an intersection."
There's a link to a video of the incident in "Deputies dump paralyzed man from wheelchair's" sidebar.
Look carefully, and you'll see a civil rights angle to this incident that nobody seems to be mentioning. I haven't seen the words "police brutality" brought up in connection with it, either.
"Deputy Taped Dumping Man From Wheelchair Turns Herself In" "FOXNews.com" (February 16, 2008). Well, that's progress.
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