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Facing some serious charges.ATLANTA — An Alabama police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of using unreasonable force against an unarmed Indian man during an episode in which the officer slammed the man to the ground while he was on an early-morning stroll through his family’s suburban neighborhood.
The Feb. 6 confrontation, which led to the partial paralysis of the man, Sureshbhai Patel, 57, has exported America’s national debate over the use of force by police officers as observers and news media in India expressed outrage over Mr. Patel’s treatment.
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man
Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man
Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man
Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?
My primary thought is that bad cops get busted pretty regularly but those that hate cops will look at this as confirmation that all cops are bad instead of that the system generally works.
Wasn't there a thread on this and a video of the incident posted with it? If that is the incident, yes charges should be brought.
A good question would be what are your thoughts?
There you go.On the surface with few confirmed detail, does not look good. That said more information is needed. We only have a news report.
Alabama Police Officer Indicted in Confrontation With Unarmed Indian Man
Facing some serious charges.
Thoughts are?
My primary thought is that bad cops get busted pretty regularly but those that hate cops will look at this as confirmation that all cops are bad instead of that the system generally works.
I have not seen the video yet.If he did something wrong, he needs to be punished accordingly. This one for example could have been solved if there had been a service that the police officer could have called to use as a telephonic translator so that he could have asked the man the relevant questions and not needed to use force against a person who must have clearly not understood a word he said.
But on the other hand, people who do not know the lingo of a country that they are visiting for an extended period of time should at least learn some rudimentary phrases like "I don't speak English, I am from India and I live at this address". Then the officer could have realized that it was not unwillingness but fear and lack of understanding that was the reason the man did not do what the officer wanted him to do.
That this lead to tensions between the US and India should not be taken into consideration. The officer did something wrong or he did not, politics and other issues should not come into this. This is a legal issue and nothing more.
But from what I have seen so far from the video tape so far there was no obvious reason to see (with 2 men guarding a puny elderly old man) for that officer to slam the man to the ground in such a brutal and possibly dangerous manner.
For no apparent reason the Officer body slammed him to the ground.
Kerist.
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