Another article:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A former Alabama police officer is charged with violating the civil rights of an Indian man who was injured during a violent confrontation with the officer, authorities said Friday.

Ex- officer Eric Sloan Parker is charged with using unreasonable force that left Sureshbhai Patel partially paralyzed. He was slammed face-first to the ground in the Feb. 6 confrontation, which was captured on video.

The 57-year-old from the western Indian state of Gujarat doesn't speak English.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley previously apologized to the Indian government for the treatment of Patel, calling it a case of "excessive force."



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-indict-fired-alabama-police-officer-who-slammed-indian-man/

he just went for a f'ing walk that day..

... scratch that; it's been beyond control for a long, long time.

This nation's police force needs a massive overhaul.

there are repubs in the US congress who still can't believe that such people could possibly represent the US government. Hell I left a company who still believes that my blue US passport, security clearances, American accent, and biblical name must all be excellent fakes.

None of that changes the fact that the original 911 call on this man was because someone thought a black drug addict was looking for houses to rob.

I hope this incident with the assault creates some policy changes and can be a wake-up call to excessive force against harmless elderly people.

But it may be too much to ask for regular people to start understanding that not everyone here is white.

Some of my fellow "white" people need to realize that THIS was NOT the right continent to come to, if they were hoping to live in a place with exclusively pasty-skinned, stringy-haired people. People like you and Vanita Gupta, who work hard and respect others and do the necessary work of society, are the people who help to build and improve our civilization. "White" people who meet this standard are also among the regular people. As I understand it, the Gujarati-American family of this man also meets this standard, so they are also regular people. If they want to have a family member visit, then he does indeed have Constitutional rights.

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http://topics.al.com/tag/Indian%20grandfather/posts.html

It's worth mentioning that he is reported to have walked a short distance with a walker, and is expected to be released from the hospital soon, but it is not yet clear just how completely he will (or won't) recover.