Posted on 10/03/2015 12:30:42 PM PDT by Altariel
http://fox4kc.com/2015/09/28/family-...g-mini-stroke/
MARSHALL, Mo. – An elderly man says after he lost control of his vehicle and struck a house, an off-duty police officer held him against his will while he suffered a mini-stroke.
James “Jim” Miller, 70, a grandfather and longtime realtor in Marshall, says around 6 o’clock Sunday night he was driving to a Wal-Mart when he suddenly felt dizzy and ill. According to a police report, Miller's pickup veered off the road near south Hawthorne and Sunset and hit a house. In the report, an officer says there was a crack in the house and minor damage to the front left bumper of Miller's truck.
"I turned into what I thought was a street. It turned out to be a drive-way. Looked like there was a car backing up. I turned the steering wheel and hit this guy's house," said Miller.
A disoriented Miller says he couldn't believe what happened next; an off-duty officer Scott Hedrick with the Columbia Police Department ran up to him, pulled him out of his vehicle, slammed him face down to the ground and held him down with his knee on his back and neck.
"I was leaning over a little bit and the next thing I know the door jerked open and he jerked me out,” recalled Miller.
Miller says he has a blocked artery on the right side of the his neck and repeatedly asked the officer, who was allegedly accusing Miller of being drunk, to remove his knee because he believed he was having a stroke.
"They thought I was some old drunk and everybody in this town knows who I am,” said Miller.
Miller and his family say the officer ignored Miller's pleas and held him down until Marshall Police officers arrived.
"He had my arm twisted behind my back. I said it was hurting and he said ‘I’ll break your arm,’” Miller recalled.
A Marshall police officer says when he got there Hedrick was restraining the elderly man on the ground.* The police report states the officer then handcuffed Miller, walked him to his patrol car and noticed that he was limping. Miller says after he hit the ground he suffered swelling under his left eye and a bruise on his right leg.
Miller says he has a pre-existing blocked artery in his neck says before the accident, he thought he showed signs of a stroke.
When he went to his doctor's office on Monday, his doctor confirmed Miller did in fact suffer a mini-stroke when he lost control of his pickup.
"That man could've killed my dad last night. He was told and told what was wrong with him, what happened, but he refused to listen," said Miller’s daughter, Robin Miller.
According to a police report, Sergeant Hedrick was attending a gathering at the home when he says Miller hit the house where Hedrick’s wife was standing. Hedrick told investigators he restrained Miller until cops arrived, because he says the elderly driver refused to get out of his truck after the accident.
FOX 4 stopped by the home on south Hawthorne on Monday. A man answered the door, but did not want to speak to us.
An investigating officer with the Marshall Police Department says he did see a crack in the brick of the house and damage to the front left bumper of Miller's truck.
“I think he should be put on the carpet. They're supposed to be trained to know when it's medical and when it's something else,” said Miller.
A spokesperson for the Columbia Police Department confirmed that Scott Hedrick is "a decorated, veteran patrol sergeant with the Columbia Police Department," but wouldn’t comment any further.
In the meantime, FOX 4 was told Marshall’s prosecutor will review this case and determine if charges should be filed against Sergeant Scott Hedrick.
The guy should not be driving. His excuse shows they he is a menace on the road.”
Maybe so, but if that is your standard, then the Gestapo Thug should NOT BE BREATHING!
The criminal was not a Marshall, Mo. officer. He worked in another town.
It seems to me that all that being an officer does here is make the criminal more responsible for knowing that he was committing a crime. He certainly should be charged with a crime. Even if he is not criminally charges, he committed a tort and should be sued into bankruptcy.
Now Columbia, Mo. where the criminal works might want to fire the criminal. If not, the next time he damages someone they may be found negligent.
But there will still be people here on FR that will support what this officer did. Remember, this officer felt his life was in danger and was thus justified in giving the elderly man a beating.
He should be fired for a more basic reason.
Old man has a wreck.
First thing the responding officer should do is determine whether the person has an injury, whether drunk or sober his condition should be determined.
Head injury, other injuries as well as a stroke would initially have similarities until the officer thinks it through.
This cop is first and foremost a jerk and a bully, but beyond that he has no capacity to think on his feet.
The driver could have been suffering a concussion plus neck injury and the rough treatment would have made it much worse.
As it was, the driver could have died from the stroke while the cop is acting out his Rambo thing.
So, Hedrick is not only a crazy bastard, he’s a fat crazy bastard.
Cases like THIS explain why when BLM bums attack cops, now some middle-class, law-abiding people do not care.
Because the music, tattoos and above all the BEHAVIOR of cops and gangsters is more and more similar.
What else could you expect from a Fat, Bald Headed, Knuckle Dragging Badge Monkey. It doesn’t take much of a man to rough up a 70 year old. Coward !!!
“He should be fired for a more basic reason.”
Again the criminal was NOT the responding officer. He was NOT a cop in the city where the accident happened. He was a bystander who happened upon an automobile accident and assaulted the driver of the car.
It just so happens that the criminal is a police officer in ANOTHER town. That is pretty much irrelevant to this incident other than presuming more knowledge on the part of the criminal than other persons. Of course the prosecutor may give this criminal more leeway than some other criminal because he is a cop some place else.
As with most crimes, the criminal also committed a tort. He will likely be sued for that and his employment should have nothing to do with the tort case, except of course he is probably more experienced in perjury than the average person in tort trial.
Not exactly.
Hedricks and his wife were in/at the house where the accident occurred as his wife was attending a party/event there.
The vehicle hit the house near where his wife was standing.
Hedricks pulled the driver from his vehicle.
Pretty clearly a case of “you could have hurt my wife so I will bring the full authority of my position down on you.”
I have the greatest respect for Law Enforcement officials who are as professional and respectful as individual incidents allow them to be.
Any official who abuses their position, I am more than happy to help them decide to find a new career path.
If citizens would use the power of the Citizens Complaint system, many officers who should be fry cooks at Mickey D’s would be off the force.
Not saying it is easy or quick, but little worthwhile is.
However in his city of employment, he was trained to be a responding officer.
Therefore he should have been careful to determine if the driver was injured or incapacitated due to a health problem.
Unless the driver reeked of the smell of alcohol or a pile of empty beer cans rolled out when he opened the door, the off duty cop was not acting properly.
In any accident, the first duty is to the injured and that requires that he determine whether there are any injured.
Ok, then we generally agree. Of course even if the driver “reeked of alcohol or a pile of empty beer cans rolled out when he opened the door” the criminal was not acting properly. He still had the the duty to the injured or in this case the ill and he had a responsibility to determine if the person he was, as it turns out, illegally detaining was ok.
I think I need to wash out my eyes.
Right. I keep saying it is not the job of cops to punish people no matter how bad their crime. Some assume everyone is a deadly threat when they are not.
They are to arrest people suspected of a crime, gather evidence in a legal way and let them go before a judge.
The other thing bad cops are doing is charging innocent people with resisting arrest to give them cover for acting violently, even when there is taped evidence there was no resistance.
He should have his firearms confiscated as well. Maybe his voting privileges revoked. Oh to hell with it, he lived long enough, just take him to the glue factory.
I agree, someone who attacks an old man suffering a medical emergency isa mmenace on the road.
What’s next? If a woman goes into labor outdoors and her screams interrupt his football game, will he kick her in the stomach to shut her up?
I don't MO law, but in many states a police officer in another town is just another citizen. They only have jurisdiction in the town that they serve in. If this is the case, then the old man can personally sue the policeman and the courts have to sort it out as a citizen versus citizen issue.
I don't MO law, but in many states a police officer in another town is just another citizen. They only have jurisdiction in the town that they serve in. If this is the case, then the old man can personally sue the policeman and the courts have to sort it out as a citizen versus citizen issue.
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