Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana

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Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana - Lemmy.World

A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.

Did anybody read the article and see the part where she were threatening the employees with a bat and admitted to it?

I think they’re sort of burying the lede on this one.

I would completely expect the police to show up, armed and ready for someone who did just receive a call about threatening people with a metal bat.

Fuck the police and what they did to him, but let’s not pretend like this isn’t a whole other thing than the headline.

That being said, can anyone tell me what the cops did to this dude other than make him sit in the back of a police car I very well might’ve missed it.

The latter part of that article go wild

To answer your question on what the cops did:

Anjelica Lee said. “My dad said to me: ‘Don’t get out of the car until they can fully see you, because they’re going to shoot.’ And after he said that, nine or 10 of them jumped on him, and then they slammed him on the car.”

She said she could hear her father screaming: “You’re hurting me. I can’t breathe.”

This is all from the woman’s perspective. But it sure seems suspicious that he had chest pains that the police’s story can’t explain.

Fair enough I missed that part. Thank you!