Alabama cop charged after release of video showing him throw Indian grandfather to ground
REUTERS
13 FEB 2015 AT 06:51 ET
An Alabama policeman has been charged with assault after a man recently arrived from India said he was left partially paralyzed when an officer threw him to the ground during a morning walk, authorities said on Thursday.
Sureshbhai Patel, 57, sued the city and two officers in a civil rights complaint filed on Thursday, alleging race factored into his treatment, his attorney said. The FBI said it was also investigating.
Police officials in Madison, Alabama, apologized to Patel and his family at a news conference on Thursday afternoon. They said one of the officers involved in the incident last Friday had been arrested on an assault charge, and officials had recommended he be fired.
Patel, who speaks no English, moved from India to northern Alabama about two weeks ago to help his son’s family care for a 17-month-old child, said his lawyer, Henry Sherrod.
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Madison is a wealthy area of Huntsville and the guy's son is highly educated.
what really pissed me off was the person who called the cops identified the guy as black, "with a toboggan on his head" 'cause he/she was too fucking stupid to be able to say "turban".
