Rather than help a man in need of medical assistance, these cops decided to brutally assault him with batons and tasers.
A man who was beaten by police while he was having a seizure is now facing charges from the incident. Javier Ortega Jr. was driving home one night when he had a seizure behind the wheel and crashed his vehicle.
Ortega stopped at a gas station just before the crash but doesn’t remember anything after that.
“I stopped at the Circle K just up the street. I don’t remember what I put. To this day, I don’t remember what I put. I had to check my bank account,” Ortega said.
When police arrived on the scene, they assumed that Ortega was drunk and became immediately aggressive with him.
Ortega was confused and began telling the officers that he needed to leave, at which point they began to get more aggressive with him, assaulting him, and using both their batons and tasers on him.
“His complete body was bruised. His arms, his legs, his feet, his back. And he had the two Taser shots on his stomach, his head, his broken fingers,”
Ortega’s mom, Olaya Calanche said.
Dr. Darine Kassar, a neurologist at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, explained that Ortega was in a “postictal phase” of his seizure when he was met by police.
“They will not know what happened, they will be confused, they will be disoriented. What happened they can be combative they can be not following commands because they are confused, they are not back to their normal baseline,” Kassar explained.
To add insult to injury, Ortega was charged with DWI resisting arrest, evading arrest and interfering with public duties. After a toxicology screening had revealed that there were, in fact, no drugs or alcohol in his system, the DWI charge was dropped, but the other charges remain.
Ortega’s case highlights the fact that police unnecessarily escalate situations by assuming that every person they encounter is a criminal.
“I hope that they know that this stuff happens to people. It’s not, not everybody’s bad. Not everybody’s out there trying to get drunk and partying, acting like a fool. Some people are actually sick,” said Ortega.
Well I’m sure they told him to stop seizing. What kind of idiot continues to have a seizure? Seriously tho……what happened to the days when cops were physically fit enough to restrain any person without shooting them 15 times or beating them with batons??? There was no mistake. It was not mistaken for a crime, it was considered to be a crime. Just as there is a difference between what is right and what is legal, there is a difference between a crime and wrongdoing.
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