more rollback of ADA

[Marta Russell]

>At 09:35 AM 6/18/2002 -0700, Marta wrote:
>
>>Now imagine if you were arrested and there was no back seat in the 
>>patrol car so the police put you on top of the car and strapped you 
>>on with your own belt and while driving to the station you fell off 
>>the car, injured yourself and had to have surgery.  Would you  want 
>>the police to do this to the next victim they arrested?
>
>
>No I would not.  An ideally, I would like to see these officers 
>being punished for that, e.g. by serving a jail term, losing their 
>jobs, pensions, savings, etc.  I would even like to see a law that 
>committing a crime or a violation the line of official duty is an 
>aggravating circumstance and calls for a more stringent punishment. 
>But I would not want to see the taxpayers to pick up the tab for the 
>misdeeds of these officers - which is what I argued.
>
>Wojtek

Ok but the officers in the Barnes case were using a patrol car which 
was not accessible to wheelchair users.  Do you think there was an 
accessible van parked back at headquarters and they just refused to 
go get it?  The officers are trained by the system, the police 
institution.  If they had an accessible van available to them (which 
I doubt) and had received training on how to treat disabled persons 
they arrest then I could agree with you that the officers are at 
fault.  I don't think that was the case here but I don't know those 
details.

Marta
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Marta Russell
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