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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
He’s not an old man at least not by state criminal statute.A person over the age of 60 is usually considered to be an,I hate to say this;Senior citizen.
Damn!I’m almost there.
Well, he’s not a young man, he’s well over middle age, so yeah, he’s an “older” guy....A nice way of putting it...lol..
yeah - 51 over here - between the degenerative arthritis, Disc thinning, high BP, enlarged heart, yes - I feel great......for a man of 72 ;) —God Bless you if you feel good
It is now. It wasn’t just a few years ago when the Baby Boomers were useful to the liberals, so over course 60 was the new 30.
Unfortunately, the liberals are now putting their stock in the millenials, so now we’ve recycled back to the 60’s, and it’s ‘don’t trust anyone over 30 man’.
I’m 45 and I’ve went from ‘gee you’re not that old’ to ancient is just a few years, all from the pop culture change in mantra spoon fed to the high school/college crowd.
Actual police work is apparently too taxing for today's "law enforcement" officers.
Aw, common, the JBT’s just want to be able to go home at night.
Go Home ?...Not until they have had the Nully treatment! :)
Courtesy ping to Mr Nully.
“the SWAT team members were concerned that he might brandish the hammer he happened to be holding as a weapon.”
“Put the hammer down”. How difficult is that?
Carpenters beware.
“Unfortunately, the liberals are now putting their stock in the millenials, so now we’ve recycled back to the 60’s, and it’s ‘don’t trust anyone over 30 man’.”
When TSHTF the millenials the left is relying upon will fold up and quiver at those millenials who still have a pair.
Good thing the wasn’t a welder. Or a leaf blower, those “weapons” are loud and scary!
Yeah. I feel great for a man of 82. Too bad I’m 61...
the jury is still out if he was an oops or planned as he also has a 7 yr old and a 12 yr old
Pot County isn’t in northwest Iowa. It’s in the south central part of the state, on the border with Omaha, Nebraska. Is it asking too much for a journalist to consult an atlas when unsure of a story’s geography?
That quibble aside, I hope this guy wins the shirts off the thugs’ backs. I’m thinking a drive-up visit by the local sheriff would have sufficed.
But then the goons wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity to play nick-nack paddywack on some old man’s skull.
Appears to be yet *another* case of thug cops escalating because they *CAN* and not because they *MUST*.
From the looks of things nowadays, anytime you have an encounter with a member or members of law enforcement, you can expect a beatdown. Contact with should be avoided should be avoided at all cost. And should you see two or more coming toward you, expect to get the hell beat out of you.
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