The police fuck with people all the time everywhere. This is not unusual. They especially tend to fuck with people they know can't hire a lawyer. This just happened to backfire. I sure hope the bitch loses her job.

I don't trust cops, white, black or other. They are usually mean and nasty even when you are being polite. I try to stay out of their way.

It is only Florida that treats people who use wheelchairs with disrespect and disdain for their civil rights. In Charlottesville, Virginia, a police officer struck a man who uses a wheelchair with his police car, didn't wait for paramedics but lifted him back into his chair with the help of a passerby and then the city police went to the ER and gave the victim a ticket! The ticket was eventually found to be invalid but my House delegate's response to the incident was to sponsor a bill so that the ticket would have been legal, not to sponsor legislation mandating better training of police.

A woman with a visual disability was also injured crossing the street hit by a police car and also was given a ticket in the hospital. Neither officer has been charged with anything.
http://hymes.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/man-who-uses-a-wheelchair-charged-with-a-crime-after-police-car-hits-him-in-charlottesville/

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/justice-for-gerry-mitchell.html

Some more details: A Tampa TV reporter obtained the tape after being contacted by the victim, Brian Sterner. The deputy who dumped him is on leave without pay, and the observers are on administrative leave. Sterner failed to appear in court for a traffic violation, and that is why he was arrested.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23144420/

Records show Sterner was arrested on charges of fleeing and attempting to elude a law enforcement officer from an incident on Oct. 25. Those same records show Sterner was cited at that time for blocking an intersection.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330462,00.html

Orient Road Jail surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows veteran deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation.

Sterner, 32, said when he was taken into a booking room and told to stand up, Jones grew agitated when he told her that he could not.

"She was irked that I wasn't complying to what she was telling me to do," he told The Tampa Tribune. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do."
....As for Sterner, he was arrested at his Riverview home and taken to the jail Jan. 29 on a charge of fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, according to records. He posted $2,000 bond and was released Feb 3.

A warrant for Sterner's arrest was issued after an Oct. 25 incident, in which Tampa police stopped him in Ybor City. He was stopped while driving a Mini Cooper that had been fitted with hand pedals and was cited for blocking an intersection.

"My client was stopped that night and was given a traffic citation, so how could he be fleeing and eluding?" Sterner's lawyer John Trevena said. "We're very skeptical about the basis for the charge itself."
http://www.topix.net/content/cbs/2008/02/florida-cops-dump-paralyzed-man-from-wheelchair

Ok, first off, he is NOT a paraplegic, as he has use of his arms. Doesn't anybody in the newsroom proof-read anymore?
That is in no way an excuse for what that stupid cop did, just another indictment of our lazy media. No matter what that fellow said, no matter what he was charged with, there is no excuse for such a reprhensble act. The jerk who dumped him, the cop who laughed, and everybody who saw this and did nothing, all of them belong in jail, and in gen-pop at that. No protective custody for cops who act like hoodlums.

It is mind boggling that the only reason any action is taken is because this video got out. It is proof that for some people THE ONLY reason not to assault and insult others is fear of reprimand.

This kind of thug with a badge garbage should and hopefully will wind up bankrupting that county and/or whomever shares insurance with them. It isn't about revenge or justice, it is about providing a strong enough incentive to the authority over these violent thugs that they see their self-interest in having properly trained officers who can be relied upon to act professionally. Hit this county HARD in the wallet and maybe someone will do a better job of protecting the public from thugs with badges.

It should be clear to everyone that what the officer(s) did wrong was a lot more than simply get caught.

i hope this guy bankrupts the sheriffs office with a lawsuit

Naw. We aren't living in a police state (much)!

I hope these ass hats all get fired. This is how they treat the public and they they wonder why nobody likes them.

18 years as a caregiver to the severely disabled and I have never heard of anything so unforgivable. This is an outrage!

Is it fascism yet?

If she's a witch, she won't burn!

Idiots.

This is sad and people wonder why people are afraid of the police it's that power they use. I'm not saying all of them but their are enough of them. I've heard of children being tasered so many time that I'm sick of it. They said that taszing would only be used in the most dangerous situation. It is used when ever they want to.

Dumb c*#t should be fired.

animals. No sense of humanity.

Yeah this about what we can expect from the police - billions of dollars spent on police to protect us from terrrorists and not a penny to us to protect us from the police.