Police brutalize man with Huntington's Chorea because they thought he was drunk,

or high on narcotics while out with his kids.

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As my uncle and his two children headed towards the store before heading to the park together they crossed an intersection to the other side when the stroller became hung up on the curb. As the light changed, to keep his children out of harms way he hurriedly put his two year old on the curb, told her to stay put and pulled the stroller up on the curb.

In this moment someone mistook my uncles actions to keep his kids safe as child abuse. The police were then called and approached him down the street and began to question him. Assuming because of his appearance he was high on narcotics with out reason they began to sub due him, macing and beating him in the head as he fell to his face were he was then held with a great amount of force by two officers double his size as a third one landed on his torso.

For the the next ten minutes as my cousins watch unattended, my uncle pleads and cries out in pain for the lack of breath and agony being applied to him.

Unknown to the police my uncle suffers from Huntington’s disease. For those unfamiliar it is very similar to Parkinson’s. So as he lay there uncontrollably moving due to his terminal condition, he is forcefully detained to the point of screaming for help. He is spitting blood and drowning in it and the officer holding his head only applies more pressure and instructs him to “quit spitting”.

Video (Warning: If you're familiar with Huntington's Disease, This is Hard to Watch)

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ETA: Huntington's is a terminal genetic disease. The pertinent here is it leads to lack of muscular coordination including ability to speak. To give a sense of the extreme physical threat these brave cops were exposed to as three of them crushed this guy against the street, here's a video of a man suffering with Huntington's ( LINK)