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[WATCH] Terminally Ill Man Violently Tackled by Police for a Terrible Mistake
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[WATCH] Terminally Ill Man Violently Tackled by Police for a Terrible Mistake
A terminally ill West Virginia man was walking his children to the park when he was violently tackled by police who believed he was intoxicated.
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[WATCH] Terminally Ill Man Violently Tackled by Police for a Terrible Mistake

in News, Opinion, Videos / by Amanda Shea / on September 16, 2014 at 1:16 pm /

A terminally ill West Virginia man was walking his children to the park when he was violently tackled by police who believed he was intoxicated.



Jeffrey Banes, 39, suffers from Huntington’s Disease which characteristically causes an individual to lose motor function over time and subsequently appear intoxicated. Banes was allegedly taken down by police in a brutal arrest after officers thought he was under the influence of a controlled substance, according to the Dominion Post.
Banes’ September 6 arrest was caught on camera which shows that officers pepper sprayed him before they pinned him down, and Banes choked on his own blood while he cried for help. The ill man was reportedly arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer, and battery on an officer.
In an interview with the Free Thought Project, Bane’s nephew Josh Banes told the website, “Assuming because of his appearance he was high on narcotics with out reason they began to subdue him, macing and beating him in the head as he fell to his face were he was — then held with a great amount of force by two officers double his size as a third one landed on his torso.”



Officers were originally alerted to Banes’ behavior when an on-looker believed they saw Banes roughly handling his children while appearing under the influence of narcotics, according to a criminal complaint.
“The children appeared to be overheated, and when asked about provisions that he had with him for the children, Bane struck the stroller violently with his hand, pushing it forward abruptly while his infant son was still seated inside,” police stated in the report.
Police also claim that Banes spit on and kicked one of the officers trying to arrest him, an accusation the Banes family vehemently denies.
“As my uncle and his two children headed towards the store before heading to the park together they crossed an intersection to the other side when the stroller became hung up on the curb,” said Josh Banes. “As the light changed, to keep his children out of harms way, he hurriedly put his 2-year-old on the curb, told her to stay put and pulled the stroller up on the curb.”
Officers spent 10 minutes arresting Banes while the young kids were left unattended as their terminally ill father choked on his own blood, according to Banes’ nephew.

Watch the horrifying arrest video below: