Posted on 10/11/2021 9:58:25 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
US police are investigating video showing a black man being dragged from his car by officers as he repeatedly screams "I'm paraplegic".
Bodycam footage shows officers stopping Clifford Owensby in Dayton, Ohio, last month and asking him to step out of his car so they can search it for drugs.
Mr Owensby, 39, refuses, saying he does not have use of his legs.
The officers insist he must get out and then pull him from the vehicle by his hair and arms as he calls for help.
The Dayton Police Department says it is now investigating the incident that took place on 30 September.
Authorities say the officers stopped Mr Owensby because he was driving away from a house suspected of hosting involvement in drugs. Police say they found a bag of cash containing $22,450 (£16,500) in the car.
Mr Owensby has not been charged over any drug-related offences.
During the incident, Mr Owensby repeatedly refuses requests to leave the car, although officers do say they will help him out.
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Simple question…
So, how did Mr. Owensby become a paraplegic?
You’re not permitted to break the law just because you’re crippled.
Remember Radio Free Europe? Now I really know why it was needed.
Known drug dealer and stuff.
You’re not permitted to break the law just because you’re crippled.
“ You’re not permitted to break the law just because you’re crippled.”
If you want to break the law, you have to be a teen
I would have to see the entire video and the car itself before I will condemn the officers. If he is in a chair he has to have a special set up on the steering column to drive and there has to be a chair somewhere in the vehicle that he can access either mechanically or by upper body reach.
Now if he is crippled and walks with canes or crutches that’s a different story, you tell the officers I walk with canes/crutches and can get out but it will take a couple of minutes to do so.
You’re not permitted to break the law just because you’re crippled.
So exactly what law did he break?
Failure to ‘step’ out of the car when ordered?
He was not charged with anything afterwards.
Did his car have Handicapped Tags?
Special controls for accelerator and brakes to enable a paraplegic to drive the car?
I wasn’t gonna run from the cops but I was high
I was gonna pull right over and stop but I was high
Now I am a paraplegic and I know why (Why man?)
Because I got high, because I got high
Because I got high
- Afroman
LOL.
It’s amazing how I’ve gotten through 72 years and never had physical trouble with a cop. And I was pretty wild when young.
That is irrelevant
Are there hand controls specially-fitted to operate gas and brake pedals? I can’t tell from the video.
He probably needs to reach down, below the window frame to get out. That would be suicide in the presence of a cop
I haven’t watched the video, and I don’t intend to. I’m sure it’s not long enough to give us the full picture.
Nevertheless having dealt with a few a****** cops in my life I’m not automatically on their side for just pulling somebody over and demanding he get out of the car. As far as the money they found, I’m assuming they found it *after* they drug him out of the car? Did they have a warrant for searching his car without his permission? These instances where what they find after-the-fact justifies what they did before they knew it?
I would not be in the least bit surprised to find the man was involved in drug dealing. But people need to remember that when the cops can ignore the rights of somebody they suspect, that means they could ignore your rights to because they suspect you. Oh, but they won’t suspect you of anything because you know you haven’t done anything, right? Isn’t that the way it always works?
Do you have a warrant?
Am I under arrest?
Am I free to go?
Learn the magic words.
I assume you are referring to the mentally and morally crippled "police officers"?
Because they are the only ones breaking the law here.
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