to deal with suspects in wheelchairs i tried to get some more information today from the metropolitan transit police maybe an interview perhaps and the person that i spoke to was very polite but refused to answer any questions except with i can send you our official statement on that i got the e-mail just a few minutes later and although i was holding out just the slightest shred of hope that the statement held some slightly apologetic note and surprisingly i was disappointed the statement i received from metro transit police public information officer steve todd and carol reads on thursday may nineteen the metro transit police on routine patrol at the used treatment for station observed a patron in a wheelchair drinking an alcoholic beverage the officers asked the patrons to leave the area and he refused the officers then attempted to issue the patient a citation and when the patient patron refused to comply with the issuance of a citation he was told that he would be placed under arrest the patron resisted arrest which resulted in him falling out of his wheelchair the patron was arrested for assau

this is referring to the call of flood that we called for the wheelchair assault police by metropolitan transit police officers when they pulled a man out of a wheelchair and slammed on to the sidewalk last week we will be following up with that case and well i'm happy to say that at least the charges of assault against the victim have been dropped and we eagerly eagerly await the report of the on the investigation from the u.s. attorney's office to see if there's going to be real accountability for the officers involved in that case from facebook chris larsen writes hey man question for you i ask because i am curious this is not a question that i will repose or anything and i am not a bigoted person with a hatred or negative bias why is long and referring to the fact that yes i do identify as a muslim which makes me about as muslim as most americans who identify as christians so. as they are christian and i choose to identify as as a muslim simply because i can and also from facebook tree read writes another great show there adam again i found myself shaking my head in shame as the police officer as