Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy placed on leave after video surfaces of him bloodying 62-year-old man
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/ … leave-aft/Three minutes later, the deputy yanked Hinton out of his car by his legs and hit him multiple times while ripping his shirt and knocking out his false teeth. The violent arrest left Hinton with eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, severe concussion, shoulder injury and a disfigured lip, according to attorneys he hired, Tim Note and Josh Maurer.
Medics were called to the scene but cleared Hinton to be booked into the Spokane County Jail, according to Note. However, jail staff refused to book Hinton and he was instead taken to an area hospital, Note said.
Medics cleared him for jail. Jail sent him to the hospital.
Aside from the obvious commentary on police violence, I don't think enough is said about the sometimes callous (or in this case, what I'll just go ahead and call complicity) behavior of other emergency services. Medics cleared a man with a "severe concussion," among other injuries. The medics should answer for this too. Read around for some nightmare anecdotes about ambulance people. Some bad culture in that job as well.
The jail people had more sense than the cops or medics.
wow.