Ya gotta love YouTube for exposing how those charged to “protect and serve” sometimes miss the mark. In this clip, you’ll see quardriplegic Brian Sterner dumped from his wheelchair by Hillsborough County, Fla., deputy sheriff Charlette Marshall-Jones because — get this — he didn’t stand up when she ordered him to do so. Sterner broke a few ribs in the fall.

Hey, Charlette, the WHEELCHAIR should have been your first clue. Your command was, in addition to being mean-spirited, just dumb.

When her fellow deputies saw what she did, they could have stepped in, told her to leave the area, helped him back into his chair and apologized. But no. Instead, they helped her frisk him while he was on the floor. And one deputy appears to be laughing.

No, this is not a scene from the Comedy Central show Reno 911 — this really happened.

Sterner, 32, was arrested on Jan. 29 because of an outstanding warrant due to a traffic violation. It was during booking that Marshall-Jones made her ridiculous request. 

"She was irked that I wasn't complying to what she was telling me to do," said Sterner to The Tampa Tribune. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do."

The police say they arrested Sterner because he was fleeing after being arrested for an Oct. 25 traffic violation. But Sterner’s attorney points out that Sterner was given a citation that night, the cops let him leave, so there wasn’t anything to flee from.

Right now Marshall-Jones is suspended without pay and the three  onlooking deputies are on administrative leave.

"The actions are indefensible at every level," Chief Deputy Jose Docobo said to a local reporter. "Based on what I saw, anything short of dismissal would be inappropriate."

Dismissal? She should be charged with assault and battery.

Where's the national outrage over this issue? I have yet to hear if Jesse or Al are making an appearance. There are definately two adgenda going on in this situation 1)I'm bigger and badder (Marshall-Jones) than you and don't care about your disability; and 2)Is the racial component. As the blog says, a Rodney King incident with a wheeler thrown in. How long must PWDs accept less than equal treatment from the rest of the world's inhabitants?

As the Tampa Tribune implies, this sounds like the wheelchair version of Rodney King. This is some really sick behavior--I'm not fond of lawsuits, but in this case I hope Sterner sues them for everything they are worth. From the newspaper article it sounds like Deputy Marshall-Jones thinks what she did was right--she needs to be fired! This brings up another issue related to police--if you get pulled over, especially at night, be sure to turn the motor off, internal car lights on, and hands on the wheel and carefully explain that you are paralyzed. It could be very easy to mistake paralysis as "refusal to get out of the car" and thus hostility, and scarier yet mistake a set of hand controls as a gun or some type of weapon.

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