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So you’ve arrested a disabled man, and you need to strip search him. How do you go about this? … Tip him out of his wheelchair so he falls flat on his face, of course! Well, perhaps that’s not the way you or I would go about it, but we’re not the Florida Police Department. Four US Sheriffs are on the way out the door after tipping a paralysed man out of his wheelchair after he ‘refused to stand up’.
Really?!
I’m not kidding. And you know what’s even better? If you don’t believe me, you can watch the CCTV footage of the whole thing happening by clicking here! It’s actually almost scary. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, only in America…
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1 Nicola // Feb 14, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Wish it was just America - this comment is from an opinion piece by Rod Liddle in the UK paper the Sunday Times:
“Next time you see a young person in a wheelchair, tip it over and drag the occupant down to the nearest job centre, lecturing him or her all the while on the dignity of labour. ”
Link here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article3137459.ece?openComment=true
Rod Liddle is particularly unpleasant, but you would think that a paper that purports to occupy “a dominant position in the quality Sunday market” migt have a bit more sense.
I have now made myself annoyed enough to email the editor…
2 Caz // Feb 15, 2008 at 9:02 am
Red it was all over a Traffic violation, my friend Matt told me all about.
It’s hilarious (not to the man in the chair I mean to the cops) to think they told him to stand up when clearly he is a Quadriplegic.
3 Caz // Feb 15, 2008 at 9:04 am
Nicola I saw that to and thought “OMG”, good luck on anyone tipping me out of mine, it weighs a tone or two.
Yes Rod Liddle is an unpleasant man who obviously thinks it funny to pick on the disadvantaged.
4 ‘Wheelchair tipper’ officer might be going to jail // Feb 17, 2008 at 5:03 pm
[…] being reported that the officer responsible for tipping a paralysed man out of his wheelchair has been arrested for ‘abuse of a disabled person’. The officer in question, Charlette […]
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