Posted on Aug 13, 2015
Florida police officer investigated after challenging US veteran over use of disabled parking space
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Cop Harasses Disabled Veteran for No Reason!
Officer Wilson is going to have some explaining to do.
[Warning: Video has explicit language!]
From: Fox News
A Florida police officer is under investigation after he allegedly ordered an Army veteran to remove his car from a handicapped-accessible parking spot despite the veteran’s vehicle displaying a disabled placard.
According to WPBF-TV, Riviera Beach Police Sgt. Gary Wilson is now on paid administrative leave while he is being investigated by internal affairs following an incident Sunday involving Isiah James, a U.S. Army combat veteran who served nearly 10 years.
The incident, caught on James’ cellphone video, shows an angry exchange between James and Wilson after the officer allegedly asked the veteran to move his Dodge Magnum out of the disabled parking spot outside a Walgreens because he did not look disabled.
Wilson is seen on the video challenging James, 29, saying the veteran is “in the wrong” because he “can walk.”
“What I’m saying is there are people in wheelchairs who can’t get out and you just get out of the car and float right into the store,” Wilson says to James.
“You are not the arbitrator of my disability; you don’t get to decide if I’m disabled or not,” says James, who reveals during the exchange that he served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. James also explains that he has screws in his leg and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Wilson, who asks for James’ license and calls in the plate number to check for outstanding warrants, also appears to knock James’ cellphone out of his hand as the veteran records the exchange.
“Move the camera out of my face,” Wilson says.
“You can’t do that, officer,” James says. “You broke my phone.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkkOMMmQIg
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/12/florida-cop-investigated-after-challenging-veteran-over-use-disabled-parking/
From: Fox News
A Florida police officer is under investigation after he allegedly ordered an Army veteran to remove his car from a handicapped-accessible parking spot despite the veteran’s vehicle displaying a disabled placard.
According to WPBF-TV, Riviera Beach Police Sgt. Gary Wilson is now on paid administrative leave while he is being investigated by internal affairs following an incident Sunday involving Isiah James, a U.S. Army combat veteran who served nearly 10 years.
The incident, caught on James’ cellphone video, shows an angry exchange between James and Wilson after the officer allegedly asked the veteran to move his Dodge Magnum out of the disabled parking spot outside a Walgreens because he did not look disabled.
Wilson is seen on the video challenging James, 29, saying the veteran is “in the wrong” because he “can walk.”
“What I’m saying is there are people in wheelchairs who can’t get out and you just get out of the car and float right into the store,” Wilson says to James.
“You are not the arbitrator of my disability; you don’t get to decide if I’m disabled or not,” says James, who reveals during the exchange that he served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. James also explains that he has screws in his leg and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Wilson, who asks for James’ license and calls in the plate number to check for outstanding warrants, also appears to knock James’ cellphone out of his hand as the veteran records the exchange.
“Move the camera out of my face,” Wilson says.
“You can’t do that, officer,” James says. “You broke my phone.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkkOMMmQIg
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/12/florida-cop-investigated-after-challenging-veteran-over-use-disabled-parking/
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For someone that can only walk a short distance, he did pretty going walking around for the 20+ minutes of the video, but maybe know else noticed. Also funny how the price of the phone went from $700 to $800.
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If what I gathered from the video that the police officer asked him to move his vehicle from the handicap parking the officer is 100% in the wrong and should have ran the placard/drivers license first to verify his legal right to park in the spot. The officers personal view on who should or shouldn't be parked in the handicap parking spot does not give him the right to ask him or anyone else to relocate. I hope the veteran does pursue this legally(at the very least have his phone replaced) to better train our public servants on proper procedure and legal rights. The officer admitted his own guilt of being in the wrong when he voiced his personal views. Case closed
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This so called public servant would not make it 5 mins of basic. Don't they have fitness standards anymore? I'm not picking on this Cop but come on.
After the scandal at the VA, the thumbing of the nose to us for taking an oath to lay down our lives for a country that seems to hate us? Once this cop heard he was a disabled veteran he should have thank him for his service and waddled away.
I'll say what so many can't seem to pull out of their ass. Thank you for your service and for giving so much of yourself to defend this idiots right to be said idiot!
After the scandal at the VA, the thumbing of the nose to us for taking an oath to lay down our lives for a country that seems to hate us? Once this cop heard he was a disabled veteran he should have thank him for his service and waddled away.
I'll say what so many can't seem to pull out of their ass. Thank you for your service and for giving so much of yourself to defend this idiots right to be said idiot!
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This guy is in the right, but he asks someone to call police...while he's recording FROM HIS CELLPHONE...lol...That's the country we live in. Ever notice these videos are all recorded with blacks and rednecks?...ugh
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SrA Kenneth Ramos
It's so hard to understand he did not want to stop recording from his phone..seriously dude
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If he was a fat butt like officer Wilson, bet there would have been no problem!
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