Los Angeles - Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him.

Cornell Greathouse sued the city and four police officers for assault, battery, false arrest, false imprisonment, excessive force, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and negligence.

A Superior Court jury decided the officers weren't culpable, but they ruled Pasadena must pay $78,939.12 for failing to train officers on how to deal with a quadriplegic.

Officers responding a 2005 disturbance call encountered Greathouse and, according to the suit, they pulled him out of wheelchair and hung him over a 4-foot concrete wall in order to search him.
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am i bad for laughing? poor man.

Now whos to say we dont live in a police state,thats what happens when citys dont train their police right.this time it cost them 80.000 dollars next time what is it going to cost?

Now whos to say we dont live in a police state,thats what happens when citys dont train their police right.this time it cost them 80.000 dollars next time what is it going to cost?

What I find amusing is the fact I know UM members that are police will try to come in here and justify these actions. Even more amusing is you could probably guess with 90% success rate who the people are that will try to justify it.

I have my choices! Pick yours!

I wonder what a heck the quadriplegic did in the first place that was so illegal he had to be searched. If he's quadriplegic how would he put anything in his pockets in the first place????

Exactly what I was thinking...

???? just wondering where you got ur avatar from

my friends pal made that exact thing for her new and i didnt know you could get it off the net

sory nothing to do with the topic


they hung the man over a 4 foot wall.......erm if he fell on his head couldnt he die?
what a stupid thing to do

*Trying to figure out what the guy did to deserve that.*

Though geeeeeeeeeee you think the cops would have done something else instead. I mean come on people... a little creativity!

Then again... this happened in LA right.

Nothing totally original comes out of LA anymore

That is so wrong, but not surprising....

bad cops, bad man