Judge lets white police officer off the hook after what critics say were two racially biased trials
Ben Norton
SALON - Thursday, Jan 14, 2016
Sureshbahi Patel was walking on the sidewalk outside of his
son’s home in an Alabama suburb on the morning of Feb. 6, 2015, minding
his own business, when a white police officer approached him, frisked
him and threw him to the ground, leaving him paralyzed.
The
57-year-old grandfather had just arrived to the U.S. from a small town
in India, and did not understand English. He reportedly said “no
English” and repeated the address of his son’s home to the cop as he
approached him.
A neighbor had called Madison, Alabama police
claiming they saw someone “suspicious” wandering around the
neighborhood. They described him a “skinny black guy” who is “walking
around close to the garage.”
Hank Sherrod, the family’s attorney,
shot back at the allegation, which he insisted was racist. “This is
broad daylight, walking down the street. There is nothing suspicious
about Mr. Patel other than he has brown skin.”
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