{"id":1370,"date":"2016-01-15T05:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/15\/officer-who-paralyzed-indian-grandfather-escapes-potential-civil-rights-conviction\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T05:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:47:19","slug":"officer-who-paralyzed-indian-grandfather-escapes-potential-civil-rights-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/15\/officer-who-paralyzed-indian-grandfather-escapes-potential-civil-rights-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer who paralyzed Indian grandfather escapes potential civil rights conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chirag-patel\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzE0LzQ5L0NoaXJhZ1BhdGVsLmMzNTFhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/10637205\/889\/Chirag-Patel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Officer+who+paralyzed+Indian+grandfather+escapes+potential+civil+rights+conviction&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F14%2Fofficer-indian-grandfather-civil-rights%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F14%2Fofficer-indian-grandfather-civil-rights%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>An Alabama police officer won&#8217;t be convicted of violating the civil rights of a 58-year-old Indian man after a judge on Wednesday threw out a third case against him despite video of the officer smashing the man into the ground, causing partial paralysis<\/p>\n<p>Juries in the two prior civil rights trials couldn&#8217;t decide whether Parker had used excessive force against Sureshbhai Patel in the February incident, and Judge Madeline Haikala said the decision of a third jury probably wound&#8217;t be any <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/7ac5c05873234bfba3c120606ddbb693\/prosecutors-look-block-testimony-excessive-force-case\">different<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/05\/07\/officers-troubling-pasts\/\">Officers making headlines due to excessive force have troubled pasts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Parker and another officer approached Patel after police got a call about a &#8220;suspicious&#8221; person in the neighborhood. They asked him a few questions, but Patel only responded to say that he didn&#8217;t speak English. Parker then twice asked Patel whether or not the man understood, and asked Patel to stop moving. After throwing him to the ground, Parker said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what his problem is, but he won&#8217;t listen.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/14\/officer-indian-grandfather-civil-rights\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/police\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Police<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/alabama\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Alabama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/us-world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/us\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/spine\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Spine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452806760' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452806760'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/AafrKLS4CFg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama police officer won&#8217;t be convicted of violating the civil rights of a 58-year-old Indian man after a judge on Wednesday threw out a third case against him despite video of the officer smashing the man into the ground, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/15\/officer-who-paralyzed-indian-grandfather-escapes-potential-civil-rights-conviction\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}