Comments on: The police state continues: quadriplegic dumped from wheelchair

by: J. R. Armstrong

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:06:39 +0000

Andy J ,
Quadriplegia means that your injury is in your C level of your spine. A quad often has SOME movement in their arms, but not full use and usually can’t use their hands. They can only drive with adaptive equipment. So do some research before you show how ignorant you are to the world on a public blog!!

by: B

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:22:40 +0000

If a man told me that he was a quadriplegic but was moving his arms about, I wouldn’t have believed him either. It’s paraplegics that can move their arms. Quadriplegics can’t move their arms. Either the reporter really got it wrong and my sympathy is with Brian, or Brian himself got it wrong in which case my sympathy is with the deputy.

by: laura

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:32:47 +0000

i am sick of police doing things like this to the public. i had a police officer kill my brother who was completely innocent of the situation. i am sick of cops being the johnny bad asses they think they are.people need to raise the roof about all of this. i also watched a video on t.v. of cops assaulting another wheel chair person, who happened to be a woman, they dumped her on the floor and proceeded to take her clothes off, and then they put her in a little room totally naked for several hours. you cops make me sick….someday you will get yours….maybe just maybe, someone will do this to your daughter or son, and then you will see the devastation you have brought to others

by: Gar Lipow

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:37:58 +0000

>Not everyone’s disability is clearly visible.

Yeah, I have a friend with an assistant dog, and a need for it that is not immediately apparent.

He got beat up years ago, and left mute (but not deaf) and with a form of epilepsy. With this particular type of eplespy he does not suffer classical fits but instead just kind of spaces out. If he is sitting or lying down that is not a problem. But if he is walking, and an attack occurs he will just continue walking in whatever direction he was head before it started - off a curb, into traffic, into a ditch or ravine. (There are ravines locally.)

So the dog is there to prevent him from walking into traffic or some other obvious danger if he suffers and epileptic attack while walking. And since he is mute, and aggressive policement or employee would probably not give him a chance to scribble a note to explain, if they confronted him going into a store.

by: sara

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:35:38 +0000

A policeman will probably soon tase and arrest a two-year-old infant (probably a child of color) for looking at him cross-eyed.

Those two-year-olds get into everything, man, they don’t know right from wrong! They’re B-A-A-A-D!

I hate it when real life resembles The Onion.

by: Thomas, TSID

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:28:27 +0000

If I were a better person I would not feel a need to point out that I was right.

by: Astraea

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:54:36 +0000

Not everyone’s disability is clearly visible. Some people have conditions that can allow them to walk short distances even though they could never make it from the hinterlands of the mall parking lot. Don’t assume you can judge the degree of someone’s disability just by looking at them, that makes you no different than this officer.

I had to have this same conversation with people at a former job (in a department store) because a woman from another store was helping us out and had her dog with her. She had a medical condition that sometimes caused her to lose the ability to stand up straight and the dog helped her keep her balance. Some ignorant asses asked me later why she needed an assistance dog because she’s obviously not blind. And they said it in such a snotty tone.

On topic, I just love that a certain person who rushed to the defense of the cops who strip searched the woman in Ohio are able to see that this was (probably) unjustified.

by: preying mantis

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:33:43 +0000

“Somebody might actually need the space and after watching you walk in and determining you have no legal right to park there, tough beans.”

This statement brought to you by the Senator Frist College of Medicine and Assholery.

by: Beth

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:20:44 +0000

Somebody might actually need the space and after watching you walk in and determining you have no legal right to park there

Not everyone’s disability is clearly visible. Some people have conditions that can allow them to walk short distances even though they could never make it from the hinterlands of the mall parking lot. Don’t assume you can judge the degree of someone’s disability just by looking at them, that makes you no different than this officer.

by: Damian

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:54:08 +0000

Mold, we’d all appreciate it if you took your thinly-veiled authoritarianism and stuffed it straight up your ass. Thanks.