AL Cop Indicted On Deprivation Of Rights

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Alabama cop indicted on federal charges in rough arrest

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 4:26 p.m. EDT March 27, 2015

A federal grand jury has indicted an Alabama police officer on charges of "deprivation of rights" involving the arrest of a grandfather from India who was slammed to the ground face first in an incident captured on video.

Sureshbhai Patel, 57, does not speak English and was arrested in February shortly after arriving in Madison, Ala., to help care for his 17-month-old grandson. He was hospitalized and suffered temporary paralysis in one leg.

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The incident gained national attention after the Madison police department released a video of the incident showing the encounter between Patel and two officers on a residential sidewalk in the town of 46,000 people.

The officers, who threw Patel to the ground within a minute and a half of approaching him, are heard complaining that Patel cannot speak English. After he is taken down, they try to stand him up despite his loss of control of his legs.

The video isn't very long but neither is a minute and a half to take down a "suspect", who doesn't speak English, face down.

 

[Irish2155]

People seem to think that cops aren't human. Just because they are empowered doesn't make them right, honest and/or just. That badge gets them "passed" certain responsibilities.

I had the misfortune of playing on a softball team with IPD...they all get hammered, and all drive their hammered asses home in their cop car. Now if I or anyone else did that, we'd be facing legal issues.

Truly a double standard.

 

[irishff1014]

This is just like everything else there are bad apples in every field. I don't think this was right considering there was another officer there and he wasn't in that short clip being unruly.

 

[Irish YJ]

Pretty hard to explain the need for that type of force. The guy was just standing there. Hope they make an example of that guy.

 

[BGIF]

This is just like everything else there are bad apples in every field. I don't think this was right considering there was another officer there and he wasn't in that short clip being unruly.

I saw this on local news tonight with the U.S. Attorney's P.C. They showed two clips from cruiser cams, one from the direction shown here and the other the opposite hand. Both were brief but there was no sign of resistant visible in either clip. The other officer looked surprised when the "suspect" was taken down.

 

[Booslum31]

Pretty hard to explain the need for that type of force. The guy was just standing there. Hope they make an example of that guy.

Agree

 

[dylan020]

This occurred fairly close to me. If I recall correctly, the man was visiting family from India and spoke zero English. He was walking the neighborhood and someone called in a "black guy walking in the neighborhood" (I despise these calls and having to make contact with people when some asshat neighbor thinks anyone that is not Caucasian seems "suspicious") The man did not understand what the officers were saying to him so he kept attempting to walk off. If you watch the full video, the man is in cuffs before the takedown (hard to see in the .gif above and you can see his innocent attempts to leave). I have a hard time understanding why he was taken to the ground with another officer there and already being detained. I absolutely hate the Monday Morning Quarterbacks that "The Brass" can be, but this one just baffles me.

This is something the anti-police crowd could use to benefit their movement, while Ferguson is just disillusioned. Don't judge all of us from the actions of a few that screw up.