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kyburgA Highway Patrol trooper enters the scene first, gun drawn, and kicks the driver's window of Greene's four-door sedan. After several moments, the trooper opens the door.
The trooper, his gun still raised, then gives Greene conflicting commands. He first tells him not to move, then tells him to come forward.
A second trooper quickly cuffs Greene's wrist and pulls him from the car, which rolls forward until an officer stops it.
Greene flops to the ground, clearly dazed as five officers rush him. A sixth officer, with Henderson police, enters the frame late and delivers five well-placed kicks to Greene's face.
"Stop resisting mother (expletive)!" one officer yells.
Greene doesn't scream until a second Henderson officer knees him in the midsection -- and then does it three more times. Greene was later treated for fractured ribs.
Police suspected Greene was intoxicated as he weaved among lanes about 4 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2010, and finally stopped his car near Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway in Henderson.
But that wasn't the case, which they soon discovered after they searched Greene.
"Call in medical," one officer says in the video. "We found some insulin in his pocket. ... He's semiconscious."
"Let's get medical out here. He's a diabetic, he's probably in shock," the officer later tells dispatch.
Greene's lawsuit said officers then forced him to stand by a patrol car in handcuffs and blow into a Breathalyzer, despite being injured. Paramedics later arrived and treated him for low blood sugar.
Note to self: DO NOT DRIVE WHILE DIABETIC IN NEVADA.
Honestly.
And the whole bullshit about 'they oughta wear identifying braceletts or something something?'
Riiight.
(Article does not mention race, but if the fellow was a Type II, odds are he's a POC as well. No words large enough, okay?)
The trooper, his gun still raised, then gives Greene conflicting commands. He first tells him not to move, then tells him to come forward.
A second trooper quickly cuffs Greene's wrist and pulls him from the car, which rolls forward until an officer stops it.
Greene flops to the ground, clearly dazed as five officers rush him. A sixth officer, with Henderson police, enters the frame late and delivers five well-placed kicks to Greene's face.
"Stop resisting mother (expletive)!" one officer yells.
Greene doesn't scream until a second Henderson officer knees him in the midsection -- and then does it three more times. Greene was later treated for fractured ribs.
Police suspected Greene was intoxicated as he weaved among lanes about 4 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2010, and finally stopped his car near Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway in Henderson.
But that wasn't the case, which they soon discovered after they searched Greene.
"Call in medical," one officer says in the video. "We found some insulin in his pocket. ... He's semiconscious."
"Let's get medical out here. He's a diabetic, he's probably in shock," the officer later tells dispatch.
Greene's lawsuit said officers then forced him to stand by a patrol car in handcuffs and blow into a Breathalyzer, despite being injured. Paramedics later arrived and treated him for low blood sugar.
Note to self: DO NOT DRIVE WHILE DIABETIC IN NEVADA.
Honestly.
And the whole bullshit about 'they oughta wear identifying braceletts or something something?'
Riiight.
(Article does not mention race, but if the fellow was a Type II, odds are he's a POC as well. No words large enough, okay?)
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Date: 2012-02-10 04:17 am (UTC)And reposting. Thanks. Brr.
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Date: 2012-02-10 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-10 11:54 pm (UTC)Warning: photos of Mr. Thomas after his beating are extremely triggering. He was mentally ill and "uncooperative." Actually, they seem to have beat him for walking around aimlessly in an area where several cars had been vandalized. The menatlly ill are often aimless. I get that way myself.
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Date: 2012-02-11 12:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-11 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-13 09:04 pm (UTC)About the only justice would be if they became Type IIs themselves and had to suffer the same fate someday. Go eat some more donuts, evil policeman dude.