Madison: Alabama cops are under investigation as a 57-year-old Indian man from Gujarat had been partially paralysed as he had been pat-down by police after he was pinned down on the ground as he tries to resist the cop.
The Indian man named Sureshbhai Patel had come to visit his son named Chirag Patel in America from Pij, a small town of Gujarat and spoke hackneyed English.
The incident occurred last week on Friday when the man was approached by a Madison Police Department as he was walking outside his son’s house in Alabama.
Police officials said that they were looking for a suspicious person walking onto driveways and looking into garages.
Police officials said that Police had approached Patel and tried to search him, but the man allegedly put his hands in his pockets and pulled away.
The police then forced him on the ground, leading to his temporary paralysis.
RT.com reported that at first he was unable to move his legs and had limited motion in his arms, but some mobility was restored after doctors performed cervical fusion surgery the next day.
Hank Sherrod, an attorney for the Patel family, told RT, “The doctors say there was trauma to the cervical spine that caused immediate swelling and they needed to do the cervical fusion in order to go in there and relieve the pressure on the spine.”
Chirag Patel, son of victim said to AL.com that his father was “just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time. They put him to the ground.”
Speaking in broken English, Chirag Patel’s father told police, “No English. Indian. Walking,” and then beckoned to the house where he had been staying.
Hank Sherrod said that Patel family is mulling to file a lawsuit regarding the case and cop who forced the old man on the ground is already under investigation.
Bureau Report
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