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Posted on 05/19/2014 10:43:02 AM PDT by Rusty0604
A rural northwest Iowa man who suffers from Parkinson’s disease has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that he was brutally pummeled by a SWAT team after a relative made false harassment allegations against him
Instead of speaking with the retaliatory relative, the sheriff’s department in Pottawattamie County, Iowa (pop. 92,913) sent close to a dozen members of its SWAT team to the home of John Hytrek.
Hytrek, 52, was working on a tractor in his driveway when the heavily armed policemen jumped out of a van.
He had previously warned the relative, who sports a prior conviction for uttering false statements, to leave his property.
According to the lawsuit, the horde of cops tackled the 52-year-old Parkinson’s sufferer. His face slammed on a tire machine. The police officers punched him in the head at least five times.
“I did not resist them, nothing,” Hytrek told the station. “They could’ve came up to me and asked me what was going on, and they didn’t.”
The lawsuit also alleges that the SWAT team positioned a sniper across the street to monitor the situation in case the quinquagenarian man with a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system tried anything squirrely.
In a deposition for case, an unidentified deputy told Hytrek’s attorney Tom Prickett that Hytrek hadn’t threatened the SWAT team in any way. However, the SWAT team members were concerned that he might brandish the hammer he happened to be holding as a weapon.
Hytrek suffered serious injuries as a result of the melee — so serious that the SWAT team had to send him to the hospital before he could go to jail.
A judge dismissed the false charges against Hytrek for harassment and assault in November 2012.
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I think that you answered your own question, though your words are not quite those I would use.
The answer is => [b]
They were pissed because he didn’t have the required sacrificial dog handy.
Well, the one guy was gay and the other just wanted to help people.
Now, you deal with roid heads on power trips.
A problem with a conservative solution....
DEFUND the POLICE.
Eventually, that's not going to help them either.
It’s not fear. It’s conditioning.
They want the public to justify anything they do, for any “reason”
Calling it fear gives them an excuse for engaging in conditioning. (”see, the public agrees that Mundanes should/should not......”)
Right. At 73 80 I only occasionally refer to myself as old. At 80 90 I am not sure I will fit the category. Just give me a few more 25-more years. I am sure old will catch up to me.
You are an inspiration.
In answer to your picture comparison...
in a word, “Ratings”...
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