Lawsuit claims cops broke hip of elderly black man in Georgetown

[TexasTowelie]

Herman Crisp, 81, was sitting on the front porch of his home west of the county courthouse last fall, sipping a late afternoon cup of coffee with his neighbor when a police SWAT team arrived.

Without warning, officers threw an explosive device designed to disorient and confuse crime suspects into his front yard. It exploded and, in the ensuing chaos, officers allegedly slammed Mr. Crisp to the ground, breaking his hip.

After spending hours in handcuffs, officers allegedly left Mr. Crisp’s home without offering medical care or calling an ambulance. His nephew found him the next day lying on the floor, covered in his own fecal matter.

Course of events

This description of events is the core of a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal district court in Austin. Mr. Crisp is seeking unspecified monetary damages from the City of Georgetown and Williamson County and asking police to reconsider their policies on using force.

Read more: http://www.etypeservices.com/SWF/LocalUser/Williamson1//Magazine87306/Full/index.aspx?II=87306#1/z (Williamson County Sun)

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[libdem4life]

1. That's a pretty damning article. At least they didn't kill him. They must have been afraid for

their lives. Please keep us up on this...81 years old, injured and cuffed. Cretins.

[DhhD]

3. I believe he was left to die. I think leaving anybody unattended with a hip fracture is a death

sentence. It is my understanding that a fractured bone in the hip area can very easily cut the main artery or vein of the extremities.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Nothing will happen to the pigs

They can do whatever they want.

[libdem4life]

4. Cretins. Their time will come...I know it.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. When we had media in this country

White Americans got a big old dose of what happened at civil rights marches and were appalled. Our current media covers up what cops do now, especially in African American communities. Camera phones will be the cops undoing- they can't suppress everyone. At least that is my hope.

[libdem4life]

6. I remember the photo that essentially ended the Vietnam War. The young, naked girl screaming

in pain as the napalm burned her clothes off and nearly consumed her body. She recovered...I found out many years later...many didn't. I always wondered if that was not a tactic to bring the war to an end...approved by higher ups. I know, I'm cynical, yet glad it worked...such inhumanity. I also remember the photo of the little black girl with pigtails being led up the steps of a public school in the South.

Then we had to depend on the MSM. Not so much now. Citizens are heavily armed...with video cameras. I agree...it's a paradigm shift and this Big Brother technology works for the common people.