Infowars_Magazine-Jan_2013.pdf

GOOD COP
BAD COP
IT’S not just A kids’
game anYmore.
WHY are coPS beating UP disabled PEOPLE?
written by ADAN salaZAR
We’ve become completely accustomed
to a disturbing societal defect. An epidemic
surge in sub-human treatment
of disabled and elderly citizens and
sufferers of medical illnesses by the very men and
women sworn to serve and protect them plagues
our culture.
From shoving cerebral palsy victims to dragging
elderly women out of their vehicles to Tasering
stroke sufferers, blind people and pregnant women,
corrupt police are repeatedly caught blatantly disregarding
age and health conditions, trampling basic
civil liberties and essentially tossing logical discretion
out the window when discerning law-abiding
innocents from law-breaking criminals.
While we highlight these outrageous instances, we
nevertheless maintain hope that a majority of our
oath-sworn peace officers are good people capable of
critical thinking and respectful human life.
2012, and particularly October, brought us more than
its fair share of disabled citizen police state abuses.
In October, we reported on UK police Tasering
a blind man who was walking down the sidewalk
minding his own business. The spontaneous attack
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sent the victim, Colin Farmer, a blind 61-year-old
retired architect, to the hospital leaving him embittered
at police for their actions. “He was not an
officer of the law; he was an absolute thug with a
license to carry a dangerous weapon,” Mr. Farmer
remarked. The officer involved mistakenly perceived
the man’s cane to be a samurai sword prior
to the electrocuting.
October also saw the release of June 2010 footage
of a Vancouver, British Columbia police officer
shoving a cerebral palsy sufferer to the ground for
merely attempting to squeeze through a group of
three officers walking side-by-side. We later learned
the victim was granted a 2013 hearing with the B.C.
Human Rights Tribunal.
Also in October, a federal complaint against two
officers of the Austin Police Department was filed
alleging the use of a Taser to shock a man already
suffering a seizure in his own home.
“As we reported recently, two police officers in Texas
Tasered a man who was having a seizure, merely
because he was not responding to their orders,”
wrote Steve Watson in a recent article. “The shock
from the weapon caused the 50-year-old to suffer a
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heart attack and permanent brain damage. The cops
were so ill equipped to deal with the situation, that
they just broke out Tasers and shocked a man who
was already convulsing on the ground.”
“It took paramedics 11 minutes to revive the man
and bring back his pulse. It is a miracle he is still
alive, though he will now have to live with severe
disabilities for the rest of his life.”
The man, Scott Sheely, “says he suffers and continues
to suffer from respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest,
loss of heartbeat, loss of oxygen, Taser wounds to
the torso, abrasions to knees and elbows, brain injury,
loss of vision, headaches, broken ribs, physical
pain, continued seizure and severe emotional anguish,”
reported RT.com.
October was also the month the city of Cleburne,
Texas reached an agreement with a man who was
wrongfully Tasered back in April. When 19-year-old
Ricky Jones refused to answer questions following
an accident, officer Jason Vanderlaan issued a warning
to comply, “Step out of the vehicle. Or I will Tase
you!” and made good on his promise, Tasing the defiant
driver. Only after EMS arrived did officers learn
Jones was diabetic and was non-compliant because