The world needs cops, not jerks in blue

[Coruscate]

Seriously, asking a parapalegic dude to stand is bad enough, but to dump him on the floor like garbage?

Those cops must have been doing drugs that night, LITERALLY.

Because if they didn't? Then they were overconfident as hell in their ability to just get away with other.

I'm betting on drugs. Why not? All it takes is a trip to the evidence room.

DU

BREAKING: Police Suspended For Wheelchair Dumping
Advertisements [?]Source: Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. - Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair at a jail, authorities said Tuesday. Orient Road Jail surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows veteran 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 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. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do."

Jones has been suspended without pay, and Sgt. Gary Hinson, 51, Cpl. Steven Dickey, 45 and Cpl. Decondra Williams, 36 have also been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

"The actions are indefensible at every level," Chief Deputy Jose Docobo said. "Based on what I saw, anything short of dismissal would be inappropriate." He said the officers' actions were an aberration.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080213/ap_ ... /wheelch...

[Helel]

They definitely got sucker-punched due to their actions. Every choice comes with a consequence, and this is no exception.

[Christina Anikari]

The problem is of course that jobs with large authority attract jerks who use them to get to wield power. That is the basic problem of the police, they need to wield that power but said power also means that the institution attracts people who will abuse it. There is no easy way out apart from effective internal policing and external of the police force to keep officers in line and weed out those who abuse their power.

[Coruscate]

This is true, it just angers me to see people act berserk like that.

[Gee-chan]

although if there was internal policing then the people policing the police may also mis-use the power. Oh well, that's reality for you.

[ZeroForever]

not to surprised stuff like this happens, but at least this group got caught.

sadly though even when crap like this happens if compared to lots of other countries the police power abuse is significantly tamer not that it makes it any better.

[Coruscate]

This is true.