Lesson # 1

Thursday 19 May 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

Lesson # 1: Never, EVER call the cops.

An Alabama police officer allegedly hospitalized an elderly man who called 911 to report an accident across the street from his house while his wife watched the entire beating from her wheelchair.

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After Henderson tried to explain that he was only trying to help, Officer Scott placed him in an arm bar and slammed him face first into the ground, breaking his nose and eyeglasses. Henderson’s wife, Dorris, watched from a wheelchair at the front window of her house, telling a 911 dispatcher that the officer was “beating the hell out of my husband.”

At no point did Scott place Henderson under arrest or charge him with any crime, but kept Henderson handcuffed in the backseat of his police cruiser.

Roughly ten minutes later, Scott sent an ambulance that had arrived away, telling the paramedics that the elderly man “doesn’t need an ambulance.”

A superior office who later arrived on the scene ordered the ambulance to return and Henderson was taken to the hospital, where he doctors said he suffered a broken nose, multiple contusions and a torn rotator cuff.

Of course this selfless public servant still has a job “serving and protecting” and all that.

2011-05-19  »  madlibertarianguy