Science teacher's brush with police ends in heart attack

NY Daily News ^ | October 8th 2007 | JOHN MARZULLI

[Publius6961]

I guarantee you that if the police pull me over because they confused me with a bank robber, I would neither be "scared to death", or suffer a heart attack. Mostly I would be amused.

Unless, of course, they shoot me first and ask questions later. But that is not what happened.

[null and void]

Sounds Looks like DWB.

IOW, a rightious stop...

[Glenn]

I would neither be "scared to death", or suffer a heart attack. Mostly I would be amused.

No brain, no pain!

[DManA]

To Protect and to Serve.

Guy's having a heart attack and they dump him in the street and go off looking for parking violators.

[Publius6961]

I have said it before , being detained and restrained is stressful to the max .

You know what I always say?
"Only if you resist."

[SubGeniusX]

“..doesn’t make it any less their fault for setting it off.” cardiac artery plaque buildup? Set off by cops? You’re too funny......and have no clue what plaque or its dynamic is.

so you are saying the odds are better than even that this guy would have had a Heart Attack ... driving home that day... whether or not he was accosted and roughed up by the police?

even if he had pre-existing conditions ... it is clear that the actions of the officers set off the attack at this time ...please educate youself about stress-induced myocardial ischemia

[ozzymandus]

They come in around post 12, ready and eager to like the jackboots of any thug with a badge.

[mvpel]

I guess you must have a different outlook on life that you would consider having a gun pointed at your head by a uniformed screaming maniac to be amusing.

[oh8eleven]

Never.

[ozzymandus]

Don’t forget to wipe the boot polish off your tongue.

[OCCASparky]

On what charge?
Snarkiness in the second degree?
Aggravated insensitivity?

How's about attempted murder (depraved indifference)?

[RolandBurnam]

yeah, 150lb fat guy. lol.

[ozzymandus]

I vote jerk.

[rineaux]

This 50 y/o has been eating fat for a long time, and his bypass number came up.
Did you happen to notice that he only weighs 150 lbs?

Maybe he is 3 ft 2 inches? Had a booster chair in the maxima? LOL

[sourcery]

You don't get it, do you?

Yes, the victim is responsible for the condition of his arteries. But that's always true, and has never prevented a conviction for murder when a criminal's actions are the proximate cause of a victim's heart attack. And cops, due to their position of power and responsibility, should be even more at risk than an ordinary citizen in that regard.

And then there's the failure to provide appropriate assistance to a citizen whose life was in danger. That's what cops are paid to do, and these cops didn't do their jobjs. For that alone, they should be fired. And if that's not enough, the innapropriate use of force should also be sufficient cause for termination.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

....can’t find any such diagnosis in DSM?

I'd be amazed if you could, since the DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

But aside from that, are you claiming that there's no such thing as a heart attack? Or are you just complaining that they didn't use the more technical term "myocardial infarction"?

[moonman]

"I hope all you cop haters are enjoying yourselves"

It's not hateful to have police know they are hired by the citizenry and not by socialist or communist government. Crime and punishment is in OUR hands. We merely HIRE people to do the dirty work.

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!

I am former law enforcement. These cops need to apologize or face disaplinary actions.

[TChris]

Yeah! Good for the LEOs! A little "street justice" was administered here. We don't need no stinking courts or trials! Get a bad guy and slam the little piece of crap!

Yeeeehaaaawwww!!!

</sarcasm>

[driftdiver]

“If so, there’d be a whole lot of twenty-somethings needing bypasses. This 50 y/o has been eating fat for a long time, and his bypass number came up.’

I guess you missed the part where they said he was diagnosed with a heart attack following the event. Perhaps they should have tazed him as well as beating him up. At least the taze might have kept his heart going.

[Renderofveils]

His account of the incident is precisely what the lawyer he hired to help him in his multi-million dollar civil suit rhearsed him in.
I'm sure the lawyers ofr the police involved in the incident have their own highly-stylized account as well.

I'd be curious to see how closely the cruiser camera video follows the plaintiff's version. That is, if it sees the light of day.