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Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae.
"He was just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time," said his son, Chirag Patel, this morning. "They put him to the ground."
No crime had been committed. Madison Police on Monday issued a statement saying the department had suspended the officer and were investigating the use of force in this case. The police statement wished the man a "speedy recovery."
Chirag Patel, an engineer for one of the many government contractors in Huntsville, said he had just bought a one-way ticket for his father, bringing him from the small Indian town of Pij to his new home in fast-growing suburbs of Madison.
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)xocet
(3,873 posts)Welcome to America!
Hey, he's brown-skinned. Can't be too careful.
P.S.: they wish him a "speedy recovery"??? WHY because he isn't an African American? Ooopsie?!?!???!!!???
GP6971
(31,220 posts)I've added Alabama to one of the places I won't go back to if given the choice. Spent 4 days there in Dothan and I saw people of color constantly harassed by LEO. Alabama is the only US state on my list.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)not literally, but somewhere close. I don't want to go back either.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)It is, I firmly believe, populated by some of the shittiest people on the planet. The ignorance in that town is so thick it was hard to breathe on some days.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)I will NEVER set foot in the state in the state again.
GP6971
(31,220 posts)W.C. Fields. Thanks for the laugh!!!!!
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,852 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)Others languish in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)Next, even assuming he's fired for this, he'll go and get hired by the Cleveland PD, then Ferguson.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)After all:
1. Alabama
2. Dark-skinned
3. Alabama
4. Possibly wearing a turban (obviously with a suicide bomb hidden in it)
5. Alabama
Yep. Ol Grandpa asked for it.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Ramses
(721 posts)is what this corrupt right wing country really should be called. Fascism by any other name.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Apn
(1 post)If this had happened to Bobby Jindal's Indian Grandfather how much you wanna bet that he would go television and defend the white police officers? I would bet it all.
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...from the savage body slam they did to him for no reason.
Such nice people those police....
irisblue
(33,034 posts)hell....best wishes for the man & his family
so much for any Indian investment in the sweet home state. jerks
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)countmyvote4real
(4,023 posts)I lived there in the mid to late 70's before making my exodus to NYC in 1981. This was well before the introduction of RW talk radio and Faux News began their systemic brainwashing of 'Merka. Even then there were gay bars (plural) in B'ham with drag queens no less. There have since been great strides and perhaps even further setbacks, but you can't paint a state, region or people with one brush as happened in this horrible incident. Prayers for the Patel family.