When your only tool is a hammer, everything around you, even medical emergencies, begins to look like a nail. As the video below illustrates, police who are only trained to use violence, made a bad situation worse when they responded to a call about a man who was having a seizure.
A family is outraged after watching cellphone footage of their son and brother being savagely beaten by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers during a medical emergency.
The victim, Christopher Knox, who is an epileptic, suffered a seizure while shopping in a Speedway gas station last week. For those unfamiliar with epileptics, often times during and after seizures, they can become severely disoriented.
"Officers might react to a person's dazed behavior, inability to obey directives, and combative response to restraint as actions that the person can control," the website for the law enforcement accreditor CALEA reads. "In fact, when a person with epilepsy has a seizure, he or she is physically unable to control their actions."
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