http://www.lvrj.com/news/video-shows-officers-beating-motorist-in-diabetic-shock-138901274.html
Adam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on
him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and
legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the
face.
"Stop resisting," officers on the video yell, but Greene, his face
pushed into the pavement, hasn't resisted. He doesn't even move --
maybe can't move -- because he's gone into diabetic shock caused by
low blood sugar.
The video, recorded more than a year ago by a police car dashboard
camera, was released Tuesday by Greene's lawyers. The same night, the
Henderson City Council approved a settlement of $158,500 for Greene.
His wife received $99,000 from Henderson, which is just under the
minimum amount that requires council approval.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers also participated in the traffic stop
but do not appear to kick or knee Greene on the video. The state has
agreed to pay $35,000 to Greene for a total of $292,500 between the
two agencies.
It was a Highway Patrol vehicle camera that captured the incident.
CAUGHT ON TAPE
A Highway Patrol trooper enters the scene first, gun drawn, and kicks
the driver’s window of Greene’s four-door sedan. After several
moments, the trooper opens the door.
The trooper, his gun still raised, then gives Greene conflicting
commands. He first tells him not to move, then tells him to come
forward.
A second trooper quickly cuffs Greene's wrist and pulls him from the
car, which rolls forward until an officer stops it.
Greene flops to the ground, clearly dazed as five officers rush him. A
sixth officer, with Henderson police, enters the frame late and
delivers five well-placed kicks to Greene's face.
"Stop resisting mother (expletive)!" one officer yells.
Greene doesn't scream until a second Henderson officer knees him in
the midsection -- and then does it three more times. Greene was later
treated for fractured ribs.
Police suspected Greene was intoxicated as he wove among lanes about 4
a.m. on Oct. 29, 2010, and finally stopped his car near Lake Mead
Parkway and Boulder Highway in Henderson.
But that wasn't the case, which they soon discovered after they
searched Greene.
"Call in medical," one officer says in the video. "We found some
insulin in his pocket. ... He's semiconscious."
"Let's get medical out here. He's a diabetic, he's probably in shock,"
the officer later tells dispatch.
Greene's lawsuit said officers then forced him to stand by a patrol
car in handcuffs and blow into a Breathalyzer, despite being injured.
Paramedics later arrived and treated him for the low blood sugar.
Greene was released without a citation, and officers apologized to him
for "beating him up," the lawsuit said.
He immediately went to a hospital, where he was treated for the broken
ribs and the bruises to his hands, neck, face and scalp, the lawsuit
said.
One of the harsher moments in the video comes near the end of the
clip, when one officer can be heard laughing loudly.
One officer notes that Greene "was not a small guy." An officer laughs
and says, "I couldn't take him by myself."
I'll bet Jerry is just kicking himself that he didn't get to
participate.