SDNY forced vet with no legs and 1 arm to crawl... in the rain.. to the car during arrest

New York sent 15 USPIS agents to his arrest.

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He said that morning a squad of United States Postal Inspection Service agents ordered him out of bed and would not allow him to take his prosthetic limbs for the 90-minute drive to a Pensacola courthouse.

“How does a person with no legs get into a vehicle that’s not equipped for a wheelchair?” the former Air Force senior airman said. “I had to get on my butt and crawl up into it like a monkey with one arm and in the rain. My kids were watching. It was humiliating.”

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They forced this United States’ veteran to crawl. They even all stood by and watched while he crawled. The officers who conducted this arrest, their New York bosses and the U.S. DOJ Southern District of New York (SDNY) attorneys who ordered this arrest in this fashion, should be losing sleep over this incident. More to the point they should have lost their jobs by now.

The SDNY and the USPIS officers clearly violated his civil, human and disability rights. Specifically, in the course of arresting him, they violated the most well-known of American disability law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Section 504), and Title II of the American with Disabilities (ADA). What those SDNY and NYS USPIS employees cooperated in doing to this wounded and disabled war veteran is despicable, unconscionable, illegal under MULTIPLE state and federal laws, and just plain wrong. This is a textbook example of a “bad arrest” of an American with a disability, a veteran no less, one of the worst ever heard of in the United States, to date.


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