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Title: Cops Mistake Innocent Man’s Seizure for a Crime, Beat Him So Bad He Was Hospitalized for Days
Source:
Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/ma ... zure-charged-resisting-arrest/
Published: Feb 26, 2016
Author: John Vibes
Post Date: 2016-02-26 12:56:42 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 967
Comments: 10
El Paso, TX – A man who was beaten by police while he was having a seizure is now facing charges from the incident. Javier Ortega Jr. was driving home one night when he had a seizure behind the wheel and crashed his vehicle. Ortega stopped at a gas station just before the crash but doesn’t remember anything after that. “I stopped at the Circle K just up the street. I don’t remember what I put. To this day, I don’t remember what I put. I had to check my bank account,” Ortega said. When police arrived on the scene, they assumed that Ortega was drunk and became immediately aggressive with him. In the police report, the officer said Ortega was “looking around aimlessly and appeared disoriented.” Ortega was confused and began telling the officers that he needed to leave, at which point they began to get more aggressive with him, assaulting him, and using both their batons and tasers on him. “His complete body was bruised. His arms, his legs, his feet, his back. And he had the two Taser shots on his stomach, his head, his broken fingers,” Ortega’s mom, Olaya Calanche said. Dr. Darine Kassar, a neurologist at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, explained that Ortega was in a “postictal phase” of his seizure when he was met by police. “They will not know what happened, they will be confused, they will be disoriented. What happened they can be combative they can be not following commands because they are confused, they are not back to their normal baseline,” Kassar explained. “Don’t try to restrain them or be aggressive with them because they are still not back to their normal selves,” she added. Ortega said that if he is told that he just has a seizure, he is able to bring himself back to reality quickly. Paramedics said that Ortega was able to “voice his seizure history but remained confused, alert to name only.” However, the police seemed to ignore his medical condition. “People around me typically know, he just had a seizure, he just had a seizure. So the cops didn’t know and in turn, I got beat up. I got beat up pretty bad,” said Ortega To add insult to injury, Ortega was charged with DWI resisting arrest, evading arrest and interfering with public duties. After a toxicology screening had revealed that there were, in fact, no drugs or alcohol in his system, the DWI charge was dropped, but the other charges remain. “I know I didn’t do anything wrong, you know. I’m not that type of person. I’ll get pulled over and talk very courteously to any cop. I have cop friends. That really upset me because how, why do I have a felony citation and two misdemeanor citations and then I find out they’re trying to give me a DWI,” Ortega said. Ortega’s case highlights the fact that police unnecessarily escalate situations by assuming that every person they encounter is a criminal. “I hope that they know that this stuff happens to people. It’s not, not everybody’s bad. Not everybody’s out there trying to get drunk and partying, acting like a fool. Some people are actually sick,” said Ortega. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Why is he behind the wheel of a car? What if he had killed someone while having a seizure? What if he had killed a child crossing the street?
Yeah - we all get it paulsen. His beating by cops was justified. One-trick pony, you are. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much What does that have to do with the fact that he shouldn't have been on the road to begin with?
Definitely. People with seizures should be beaten or killed.
damn right, we have the police to eliminate all "defectives".
..and pot smokers!
Yeah, those types really scare me bad ! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood A friend will help you move ,But a good friend will help you move a body..
Hey, I have a medical prescription. Hard to get, costs me 50 dollars a year.
I know peeps who spend that much a week on the 'illegal' stuff.
In Cal. you go to a doctors office they give you a prescription for $50, then you can get the really, really good stuff. so easy, you'd be a fool to smoke the illegal stuff
"Javier Ortega Jr. was driving home one night when he had a seizure behind the wheel and crashed his vehicle."
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
"His beating by cops was justified."
#4. To: misterwhite (#1)
Why is he behind the wheel of a car? What if he had killed someone while having a seizure?
#5. To: A Pole (#4)
Definitely. People with seizures should be beaten or killed.
#6. To: calcon (#5)
damn right, we have the police to eliminate all "defectives".
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
" ..and pot smokers! "
#8. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
..and pot smokers!
#9. To: calcon (#8)
#10. To: Fred Mertz (#9)
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