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To: tshane who wrote (46079)	12/17/1999 7:06:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116844

OT Over the past days, I've posted several examples that point out the abuses of police powers by the broad government have reached epic proportions. Perhaps all these individual abuses will bring about a lower value placed on money printed by the abusive government. Here's another: SUIT: POLICE "BODY-SLAMMED" 68-YEAR-OLD ALZHEIMER'S VICTIM CINCINNATI By: KIMBALL PERRY A 68-year-old Alzheimer's patient and his wife are suing Cincinnati police, claiming the man was "body-slammed" by police who then told his wife he fell _ and all of it was captured on video. Robert L. Wittenberg and wife, Mary, filed the suit against District 2 Cincinnati Police Officer Robert Hill, other police officers they couldn't name, the police division and the city of Cincinnati. Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Keith Fangman defended the officer, saying he was ordered to the store because an intoxicated man was threatening to injure customers and was armed with an electric drill. The suit accuses Hill of approaching Wittenberg Nov. 14 at a convenience store. Wittenberg was at the ice cream counter when Hill, without provocation, the suit claims, grabbed Wittenberg's arms behind his back and "body-slammed" him to the floor without giving Wittenberg an opportunity to comply with requests. This took place before store customers and employees and was captured by the store video system. Hill and other police officers handcuffed Wittenberg and took the bleeding man outside. Within an hour, the suit notes, they'd returned him to his Cincinnati home and told his wife he'd fallen. The next day, Wittenberg was taken by ambulance to University Hospital's emergency room where workers told his wife his injuries weren't from a fall. He'd suffered fractures of the pelvic bone, spine and ribs, a lung puncture, and cuts on his forehead and arms. So far, the suit notes, he's suffered $30,000 in medical (cont) freecitizen.com