Ok using that logic. They can get their ass sued to hell for this.
If suspected something else they should have gotten the testing done in a hospital and not have this man handcuffed for a couple hours while he was suffering a stroke.
He should sue them for more than false arrest in my opinion.
Before you all reply, let me ask you, if you were having a stroke while driving would you even know it or be able to explain that to the nice officer that is about to handcuff you to a bench for a couple hours.
The thought is absurd. False arrest will be the least of theses guys problems if it is true he suffered a stroke before or during his false arrest.
People that are suffering from strokes absolutely know that something is wrong when it has progressed this far. But it is difficult for even the medically trained to make the diagnosis on a stranger without information to put everything in context. There is no doubt that this man needed immediate medical treatment, but the diagnosis of a an onsetting stroke is difficult in a person you haven't met before and hard to differentiate from the effects of drugs/alcohol.
If the police bring every person they arrest that has less than stellar mental facility to the ER for an MRI, they will need to build larger hospitals, and the lines will still be a mile long.
In any event, this man would have likely waited for more than two hours at an average ER, unless he presented with a friend/relative or could make a convincing case himself that he had suffered a significant mental statis change without the help of drugs. I've seen very early diagnosis of strokes, but this was always the result of very high functioning people who pressed the issue of a very minor (undetectable to other observers) lack of accumen with an intelligent emergency trained physician. For this man to be driving erratically, he was already past onset, and had a fairly good bleed. Unfortunately most people do not seek medically treatment until they are past this point.
Walk around a city at 2am and a very high proportion of the people you meet will have identical symptoms to someone suffering a mild stroke.
This was unfortunate, needs to be investigated, and perhaps some additional training provided. But I don't see any monsters here.