Posted on 10/08/2007 9:23:47 AM PDT by SubGeniusX
A mild-mannered Brooklyn high school teacher says he was nearly scared to death by NYPD cops who mistook him for a perp.
When the violent encounter was over, Lester Jacob, 50, suffered a heart attack and was left on his own in the street by cops, who accused him of "acting."
In July he underwent open-heart surgery.
Jacob had the misfortune to be driving home through Brownsville, Brooklyn, on June 22 around the same time cops were on the lookout for a hit-and-run driver. Jacob, an earth science teacher at James Madison High School in Midwood, heard a siren, looked in his rear-view mirror and dutifully pulled over for the radio car behind him.
He wasn't prepared for what happened next. Two officers rushed up to Jacob's vehicle and pointed their guns at his head, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Cursing at him, they ordered Jacobs out of the car and roughly cuffed him.
"One officer crushed his knee into Mr. Jacob's back," the complaint states. "They then repeatedly slammed his head onto the car and then pressed his head against the car for some time."
Additional officers arrived on the scene with a witness to the earlier accident. The witness told them Jacob was the wrong guy.
"'I told you it was a white Maxima,'" the witness reportedly said, according to the complaint. Jacob drives a white Infiniti.
Jacob told the cops he was experiencing chest pains and began coughing uncontrollably.
A female cop said, "Nice acting," according to Jacob, and then drove off. Jacob said he struggled to drive home, stopping to vomit on the side of the road.
His wife rushed him to the hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a heart attack.
"I was scared to death," Jacob said of his brush with the NYPD. "I was feeling terror."
His attorney John Lambros said there was no reason for the cops to handcuff or use excessive force against the 150-pound teacher while they were waiting for the witness to show up.
The cops were not identified, but their radio car number has been turned over to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. A spokeswoman for the city Law Department said the complaint is being reviewed.
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I can assume the cops got home to their wife and children safely that day? Does anything else matter?
CA-CHING.
Jerks.
Another line from an obituary of the Rule of Law.
There are nice suburban communities around here where I fear the cops more than the “bad guys.” Over-policed, they are always on the lookout for more fresh meat to stuff into the sausage grinder bureaucracy called the “criminal justice system.” If I had a flat tire, I’d get 3 cop cars around me, and the cops wouldn’t lift a finger to fix the flat, they’d want to search my car.
What happened to him should not happen to anyone. But we've built a system in which some folks are untouchable. Sucks, don't it?
Hey at least the color of the car was right. Close enough for horse shoes and hand grenades./s
Off topic, but wasn't there another thread about the same thing happening earlier this week but a dog got shot?
They aren't underage, and they aren't rape victims.
When are the bootlickers going to show up and defend this useless piece of human detritus?
She needs to be in jail.
A great punch line, so to speak.
Wow... I really hope you forgot the /sarc tag on that....
Sometimes you can't tell here these days...
Jacob had the misfortune to be driving home through Brownsville, Brooklyn, on June 22...............In July he underwent open-heart surgery.
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Yeah.......coppers have a way of causing cardiac artery plaque buildup, right?
If so, there’d be a whole lot of twenty-somethings needing bypasses. This 50 y/o has been eating fat for a long time, and his bypass number came up.
CA-CHING.
CA-CHING.
There was an incident in KC last year, where a woman was stopped (and later charged on a felony) for speeding. She said she was in labor and rushing to the hospital. An old warrant was found and the woman taken in and jailed. One of the arresting officers, a woman cop, told the woman to quit faking it (words to that affect.) The woman later delivered a baby in her cell.
Research stories in the KC Star for more details.
On what charge?
Snarkiness in the second degree?
Aggravated insensitivity?
Be interesting to see of this gets taken down.
The fact that he had a preexisting condition doesn't make it any less their fault for setting it off. The police should be in jail and the city needs to pay dearly for hiring assh*les for cops.
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