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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cop Beats Up Young Man with Down Syndrome for Packing…a Colostomy Bag [View all]
This is apparently what happens when a 22-year-old with down syndrome attempts to walk half a block home at 9:30 at night by himself in Miami-Dade, Florida.
Gilberto Powell says the police were following him in their cruiser as he was walking home. The police report says the officers decided to stop Gilberto after they noticed a bulge in Gilbertos pants. After an officer tried to conduct a patdown, the report claims Gilberto attempted to flee.
Gilberto denies trying to run away and says he did everything the officer asked him to do. What happened next resulted in the photograph above.
After Powell was finally handcuffed and questioned, the officers realized he was mentally challenged, was not capable of understanding our commands, and that the bulge in his waistband was a colostomy bag, the report said. (source)
By that time, Gilberto had been hit, knocked to the ground and the bag had reportedly been ripped from his body. The father says by the time he and Gilbertos mother ran outside to their son, the cops had removed Gilbertos pants and had him out there in his boxer shorts.
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My 1st "clue" is based on experience with Nam vets (who only had 1 tour of duty)
Divernan
May 2014
#87
You are a perfect example of why "mental health professionals" are not to be trusted.
MindPilot
May 2014
#100
I doubt there is a "preferential hiring of vets with PTSD". I believe it's simply
whathehell
May 2014
#92
Many, especially small town, police depts. not equipped to efficiently screen.
Divernan
May 2014
#95
Basically, some people have an intrinsic trust of he LEO... I don't .. the LEOs in an area have to
uponit7771
May 2014
#62
One of the most bizarro sub-threads I've seen around these parts in some time.
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2014
#97
Yes, they should be taught NOT to trust local LEOs and view them as threats and not there to help
uponit7771
May 2014
#63
... that wasn't doing a damn thing. Every guy with a "bulge" in their pants might as well just don't
uponit7771
May 2014
#64
Thug with a badge. Too many of them and police commanders don't care. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2014
#27
They're trained? We're suppose to believe the cops are trained..let them prove it and sue them.
Jefferson23
May 2014
#35
I'm not going to shed too many tears when people start shooting these sadistic assholes.
Comrade Grumpy
May 2014
#42
I have a hearing loss & I always state that up front in dealing with security/cops.
Divernan
May 2014
#88
We really need to do something with our police forces to attract less hot headed morons
penultimate
May 2014
#47
Another disgrace to America and to any selfrespecting police force. It appears that there were more
jwirr
May 2014
#66
Yeah cops. . .badge sniffers, please defend this. It's not all of them, only the bad ones
Nanjing to Seoul
May 2014
#76
Not trying to cause any trouble here, but this was news from September 2011.
Sarah Ibarruri
May 2014
#84