Diabetic mistaken for drunken driver and beaten

I'm am SO disgusted by this abuse of POWER, and I hope this man is compensated in some ontological way, and that those sick fucks who should just kill themselves face the maximum punishment. This abuse shit needs to stop!

ahh yes... the US policemen has done it again...only if he was black then things would be perfect :)

For the people who asked why he didn't take his shots - he already had TOO MUCH insulin coursing thru him, he needed to eat something and get some sugar/carbohydrates in him. I am not a nurse, but my husband and son are type 1 diabetics and I have witnessed "violent, drunken" behavior in both of them when this happens - and it can come on quickly.
I have a car with child safety locks in the back and more than once had to shove my son in the back and lock the doors and windows to get him to the hospital safely. (I am a 5' 2" 130 lb woman - my son is over 6' and weighs about 200 - it ain't easy!) Even with this - he was able to get the windows down enough and start pushing his clothing out the tiny crack at the top, arriving at the hospital in his undies once! The only good thing about it was that he doesn't recall any of it, he vaguely remembers making monkey noises at me.
Both my husband and son have lost jobs because they had these episodes at work, and the boss assumed they were drunk and fired them. My husband is gone now - complications of diabetes - and my son now has his under better control, but a hypoglycemic episode can happen from not eating enough, not getting enough sleep, too much activity, etc. and the people he works with now are aware that if they see him starting to act weird or drunk, make him eat!!!
I feel for the man who had this happen to him - I can't believe that the police are that clueless in this day and age. I think Westlake is correct - it's not enough for the problems they've just caused. Chances are, because diabetics don't heal very well after injury/surgery - they've just hastened this man's death.

THE GESTAPO MUST BE STOPPED! AMERICA WAKE UP! TURN OFF YOUR iPOD AND OPEN YOUR EYES!
but that will never happen. we are too lazy and content with cable tv or the revolution would already be upon us. maybe when it happens to you your neighbors will act, but probably not, soccer practice is at 4.

totally right, right now it only take a high school diploma to be a police officer coming down from a high of having to have so many college hours.

20 million is only unreasonable because it is not enough that is a life long problem for that man and his family.

intoxicated or not police officer should be trained to the t in taking down a person with force and punches kicks and night sticks to the head is not the way they were trained to do it.

my biggest problem with this whole situation is they have dash cams for this reason and this reason only, not to mention speakers on the collar non of this can be displayed in court you are totally right DRAWK some ones lying and it is the people you are taking up for

if an IQ minimum for cops were to be implemented, there would be alot more 'people' out of the job right now.

Beating up colored people, now people with medical problems. Geez!!! Next it would be anyone.

I would definitely make this nationally known. I would call up every major news station, and want to have a change in the law-enforcement.

I don't even feel safe anymore.

disgusting. what part of "cruel and unusual punishment" do these ignorant cops not understand?

Has anyone ever read any of J_Jammers comments where he has made a reasonable point?

Please message me if you can think of a single example of J_Jammer being worth the weight of the key board that he types on.

ARRRG!
a similar situation with my father happened, he's disabled and has had 8 spine surgeries.
he was out 6 am to walk to the store and sat down for a minute on the sidewalk because his back hurt and there were no benches on the street. police came up to him and started harassing him, poking him in the chest and tried to instigate him into a confrontation. they said he was 'coked up' and sent him away in a EMT to the hospital against his will.
He was IN a LOT of pain is all!
i spent all day walking around his neighborhood trying to find him!
i finally checked his voicemail and found out a doctor called his voicemail (lucky he left his phone home) and said what hospital he was at.
he was under all sorts of medicine and was totally out of it when i finally got there. he had no clue where he was ! ! !

for GOD's sake, what the hell is happening on this planet!!!!!!

You'd think the police would have received proper training on how to decipher the differences between medical problems and alcohol/drug influence.

20 Million?

Hell no....I didn't read a single thing that makes that number reasonable. I read a lot that makes it excessive.

I agree, even if someone were drunk beating them isn't acceptable. Neither is it acceptable to lie. Someone is lying....everyone is quick to state the police are, but how can there be such a conflicting story of what happened?

The police state that he had been domestically abusive. The lawyer for the man who is not awake at this moment...did not decline that story's account. Maybe she was not asked. But still I want to know her reply to that. If that is the case then I have a little less sympathy for his plight than I did before I read the whole article.

Who are these witnesses?

I think sometimes it's good to state that for the article to look more creditable, as is having your client in the hospital.

Was he in there for the attack or because he didn't get his shot in time? I didn't read where it stated he was beaten into unconsciousness. Not even his lawyer was quoted stating that.

There's not enough information on this....

Though I think they should have been aware of his situation first hand. And that should have been the case if it really were a domestic dispute....wouldn't the wife state he was a diabetic? Unless she didn't care or it slipped her mind.

I have a friend and an aunt who are diabetic and I have seen one of them in shock and it's just scary. Why did the man not give himself a shot when he was suppose to? Was he in a high speed chase that made it impossible to remember that he had to get a shot...pull over and do so? My aunt and friend make sure they get their shots on time and eat on time....so if he isn't very good at keeping up with his treatment of his illness I don't think expecting others to pick up the slack for you is a worthy defense .

If this is true the cops should be fired and not allowed to be police ever again. But you know they will just get a slap on the wrist.

Another testiment to the violation of the authorities on human beings. That wasn't even called for, beat a man to the point where part of his brains have to be removed. Those two officers need to be taken to task.

Compensation should be that, if he recovers, he should be permitted to tazer any pig he wishes to, for any duration, for the rest of his life.

Even when you are drunk, do you deserve to be beaten like that?

I wonder what the compensation would be. Perhaps not possible in money?