WATCH: Phoenix cop beats blind man in bathroom -- but blind man gets charged with aggravated assault

Source: Raw Story


Dominique Jackson DOMINIQUE JACKSON
26 JUN 2018 AT 20:35 ET

Marco Zepeda, a blind man was using the bathroom when he was attacked by a police officer. He just came out of nowhere,” Zepeda said.

Zepeda said he was using his fingers to look around for urinal when the police officer shoved him back. “He grabbed and he screamed at me ‘I told you I was the police.’ But he never did it. I swear to God he never did it,” Zepeda said.

Walter Gastelum, was in the bathroom at that time, and record a video and uploaded it to Snapchat. Zepeda can be heard yelling “I’m blind” in both English and Spanish.

“Marco kept screaming, ‘I’m blind. I can’t see. I’m blind. I’m blind,'” Gastelum said. “You can clearly see that he’s blind. I don’t know how you can miss that.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-phoenix-cop-beats-blind-man-bathroom-blind-man-gets-charged-aggravated-assault/

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Blind man claims he was slammed to the ground, falsely arrested by Phoenix officer
Posted: Jun 25, 2018 8:48 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 25, 2018 9:46 PM CDT
Written By 12 News

PHOENIX - A blind man claims he was slammed to the ground and falsely arrested by a Phoenix police officer, in an incident that was partially caught on camera by a bystander.



“He just came out of nowhere," an emotional Marco Zepeda told 12 News.

The incident happened on June 15 in a restroom at a QuikTrip near 83rd Avenue and McDowell Road.

Zepeda said he was snapping his fingers and feeling around for the urinal, when he was shoved by the officer without warning.

More:
http://www.kvoa.com/story/38506126/blind-man-claims-he-was-slammed-to-the-ground-falsely-arrested-by-phoenix-officer