$1.3M awarded to Black man arrested by Boston police after having a stroke

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Al Copeland


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When Al Copeland began experiencing stroke symptoms behind the wheel, he pulled over in the hopes that someone might come to his aid.

In 2019, Boston police officers reportedly found Al “slumped” over and “barely conscious” after having a stroke in his car. He had pulled over in front of the Berklee College of Music, Jarmanning reported.
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According to Jarmanning, police arrested Al, who was 62 at the time, with authorities writing in their official report that they smelled alcohol in the car. Al later told WBUR he hadn’t had a sip of alcohol since 1995.

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Police footage reportedly shows Al barely able to keep upright under his own power after being taken to the station, at one point falling and banging his head against the wall of a holding cell, per WBUR.

Officers then left Al in the cell to “sleep it off,” according to police records reviewed by WBUR, eventually calling an ambulance after Al began vomiting nearly five hours after he was first found in his car.

https://news.yahoo.com/1-3m-awarded-black-man-222756733.html

[Celerity]

1. K & R

Link to tweet

[DFW]

2. Not having been there, this may be the wrong thing to say

But my first instinct is to fervently hope that the money comes out of the offending cops' pensions.

I'm pretty sure that having a stroke is not on the books as a punishable offense in Boston.

[malaise]

3. Being African-American is on the books

Racist pigs

[marble falls]

4. It's written between the lines. Only cops and PoC know it's there.

[SamKnause]

5. The penal system and the judicial system can't make any money off of a stroke victim.

The police have no quota for stroke victims.

The police do not care about the public.

The police care about arresting people, abusing people, violating the people's rights and making money off

jailing the public.

They view the public as the enemy.

They are not your friends.

They smelled alcohol in the car.

Yeah right.

They smell cannabis everywhere.

They lie to fit their narratives.

I don't trust them.

I don't respect them.

There is not 1 bad apple in the barrel.

The apples have turned to brown mush and the barrel is rotting.