Posted on 10/08/2007 9:23:47 AM PDT by SubGeniusX
A mild-mannered Brooklyn high school teacher says he was nearly scared to death by NYPD cops who mistook him for a perp.
When the violent encounter was over, Lester Jacob, 50, suffered a heart attack and was left on his own in the street by cops, who accused him of "acting."
In July he underwent open-heart surgery.
Jacob had the misfortune to be driving home through Brownsville, Brooklyn, on June 22 around the same time cops were on the lookout for a hit-and-run driver. Jacob, an earth science teacher at James Madison High School in Midwood, heard a siren, looked in his rear-view mirror and dutifully pulled over for the radio car behind him.
He wasn't prepared for what happened next. Two officers rushed up to Jacob's vehicle and pointed their guns at his head, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Cursing at him, they ordered Jacobs out of the car and roughly cuffed him.
"One officer crushed his knee into Mr. Jacob's back," the complaint states. "They then repeatedly slammed his head onto the car and then pressed his head against the car for some time."
Additional officers arrived on the scene with a witness to the earlier accident. The witness told them Jacob was the wrong guy.
"'I told you it was a white Maxima,'" the witness reportedly said, according to the complaint. Jacob drives a white Infiniti.
Jacob told the cops he was experiencing chest pains and began coughing uncontrollably.
A female cop said, "Nice acting," according to Jacob, and then drove off. Jacob said he struggled to drive home, stopping to vomit on the side of the road.
His wife rushed him to the hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a heart attack.
"I was scared to death," Jacob said of his brush with the NYPD. "I was feeling terror."
His attorney John Lambros said there was no reason for the cops to handcuff or use excessive force against the 150-pound teacher while they were waiting for the witness to show up.
The cops were not identified, but their radio car number has been turned over to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. A spokeswoman for the city Law Department said the complaint is being reviewed.
Sadly, it is VERY believable... far more of these stories than Teachers who have sex with students, or Priests who molest boys, or any of the other abusers of authority. Cops are the worst. They have guns and they use them.
The old Rape Defense huh? She was wearing such and such and asking for it??? Same mentality. Same cruel heart of a slave master or his pet.
Absolutely !
And if the county DA does not want to, then their should be a non stop effort, everywhere he/she goes to bring up the case and make sure the DA is defeated for re-election. At every city hall meeting, pancake club, church outing, civic event. Fliers and signs and protests until the DA charges the Cops with THE CRIME !!
Same for the Mayor and every member of the council. Politics will at the least make them throw someone under the bus.
That is obvious, he is being far worse than a Jerk. He is attempting to intimidate the debate to silence. Likely an abusive authority figure himself.
The cops were not identified, but their radio car number has been turned over to the Civilian Complaint Review Board”
“After extensive investigation, the review board has determined that the radio car in question was not signed out that night and someone must have taken it by mistake.A memo has been issued for the officers that were using the cruiser to incriminate themselves so they can be sued.No one has come forward at this time.”
CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?
Character Assassination Attempt!!
You are what is known as a Useful Idiot when it comes to Abuse of Authority.
Nice try to change the frame of the debate.
The issue is Abusive Authority Types and the Useful Idiots who enable them... care to comment on that?
As for the red herring of tax payers, let's go back to a well armed populace and a single sheriff who deputizes men when he needs them and cut about 75% of the police state?
If tax payers are your real concern (as if) then you should love this plan to save them lots of money.
and while you’re at it, define “heart attack”....and be specific......oh?.....you can’t?.....wonder why?.....can’t find any such diagnosis in DSM?
The only Turkey in this is you. You for taking the focus off the actual point. Not that I think you're too stupid to get it... No... I actually know that you get it... you're trying to MANIPULATE the debate to some inane medical mumbo jumbo because you do not want us discussing the real problem...
The Corruption of the agents of Law enforcement and the Brutality of the growing Police State in Fascist America!!!
The exact same type of folks who let the Nazis get away with their abuses and the who let the PLO etc get away with theirs. Some people like to see cops beat on innocent people... makes them feel more self righteous. I'm not sure which disgust me more... the bad cops or their enablers.
Reminds me of people constantly saying, "Taking the law into your own hands". Unless they changed the constitution, the law never LEFT my (our) hands!
Damn Straight on that !!
Bet ya there "ain't" no video.... Technical malfunction... how convenient....
Already happening... several websites document these abuses where a Cop busted the wrong guy who didn't know it was a cop and shot back and killed either or both of them. It's sad but it is way more common that the Cops kills the innocent than gets himself capped.
Some people are just screwed up in the head.
Huh? That is the same thing Islamofacists say .
Yeah... doesn't THAT say a lot about these enabler's mentalities...
Welcome to homeowners' association America.
You were the first one to bring up this red herring about the cause or effect of his medical condition... while INTENTIONALLY AVOIDING THE MATERIAL FOCUS OF THIS THREAD!!
That being naturally... the ABUSE of Authority of some very sick, nasty, ego inflated ARMED AND DANGEROUS thugs with badges. If they had a god they might pray to, I'd suggest they be thankful the guy lived to sue their asses off... cause of he would have died on the spot, they might JUST BE looking at a much more serious set of problems.
Whatever anyone else would be charged with were they not wearing a gun and a badge.
You are an enabler. You are a useful idiot to those who would have us become less than freemen. And as for the last time a cop stopped me line... it is because they DO... if they don't or haven't stopped you and thus you feel that "someone else must have done something bad to deserve it" then you are guilty of the same kind of ignorance that leads to tyranny... "first they came for the jews..." remember??
No. You likely don't know or would refuse to see it if you did... already so deep in lying to yourself and everyone here, that there is no way the prima facie will ever make its way to your conscientiousness.
He had a Heart Attack on the spot at the time of the incident ... he went to the Hospital as soon as he got home and they determined he had a Heart Attack....
what part of this do you find hard to grasp..
Both of these booklickers read it... they know... that is exactly WHY they haven't posted to the real issues and have presented this red herring medical BS... they want us to talk about ANYTHING... Anything except the growing abuse of police powers. They don't want to talk about THAT... cause then who and what they REALLY are would come out.
Don't forget to wipe the boot-black off your tongue.
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