Indian Grandfather Nearly Paralyzed After Police Encounter in Alabama – [VIDEO]

 

Police in Madison, Alabama—a growing town just west of Huntsville—say they were responding to a call about a “suspicious person” walking around looking in home garages. That’s when they found Sureshbhai Patel, a buy Pregabalin 57-year-old grandfather with permanent residence status in the U.S. who was visiting from India. What happened next left him nearly paralyzed.

Patel, who doesn’t speak much English, was being questioned by officers who wanted to search him when, apparently, he tried to walk away. He was then thrown to the ground and eventually taken to the hospital where he’s being treated for fused vertebrae.

The incident isn’t necessarily isolated. South Asian Americans Leading Together, or SAALT, says that what happened to Patel illustrates the inequities communities of color face when dealing with the police.

“This incident is part of a pattern of racial profiling, surveillance, and violence that South Asians often face at the hands of law enforcement and part of the broader reality of police brutality in this country directed against Black and Brown communities,” says SAALT’s Suman Raghunathan via e-mail. The group says it’s echoing the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement to change the way that policing is done.

Here is graphic  can i order prednisone online VIDEO of the BRUTAL take down posted on CNN ( Trigger Warning)

UPDATEAlabama Cop Fired After Video Slamming Indian Grandfather to the Ground -COLORLINES

UPDATE: FULL VIDEO shows Grandfather was not looking into garages.

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People, STOP calling the police on Black and Brown people.

Calling the police on Black and Brown people is often a death sentence.

The police are always armed and they will shoot anyone who reaches for their waistband, or is carrying anything black, or that looks like a gun or looks like a knife, or if they feel that they are in danger.

 

Woman terrorized with ‘Move N****r Now’ and rocks thrown through windows [VIDEO]

 

An Alabama woman’s New Year’s Eve celebrations were cut short when she heard a crash as three windows in the front of her house were broken with rocks.

Terry Turner and her granddaughter slipped out the bedroom window after calling 911 — they were afraid someone was in the house.

When police arrived, they discovered the rocks thrown through the windows and the spray-painted garage door with a message that said: “Move N***** now.”

Terry has lived in the neighborhood for eight years and heard the slur shouted at her but never imagined things would escalate this far. Still, she holds no hatred in her heart for whoever did this.

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Source: thegrio.com

 

Those rocks could have killed her or her granddaughter!

More domestic terrorism that the media will not call terrorism.

 

SPLC files federal lawsuit over inadequate medical, mental health care in Alabama prisons

 

Alabama has the most overcrowded prisons in the nation and spends one of the lowest amounts, per inmate, on health care. The prison system contracts with Corizon Inc. to provide medical care and MHM Correctional Services to provide mental health care. In 2012, when the ADOC released a “Request for Proposal” for a new health care contract, applicants were scored on a 3,000 point scale. Out of a possible 3,000 points, contract price accounted for a possible 1,350 points. Qualifications and experience counted for only 100 points.

The ADOC renewed its contract with Corizon in 2012, even though Corizon (the company providing health care in Alabama prisons since 2007) failed every major audit of its health care operations in Alabama prisons under its first contract with the state.

 

Source: www.splcenter.org

Native American Student Denied Diploma and Fined $1000 for Feather

An Escambia Academy High School student, in Atmore Alabama, said she was denied her diploma and fined $1,000 for wearing a traditional eagle feather at her graduation. It has been …

 

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