Quadrapalegic thrown from a wheelchair.

[notoppings]

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I have a few questions about this video. Please help me out. First what is the definition of a quadriplegic? and which is the proper spelling, the one in the title that I took from CBS news? or the one in the question that I took from CBS news? or are they both right only the one in the question spell checks correctly but I can Google either.

But thats getting off the point, I find this video disturbing for it's content but I also find the video disturbing for it's, what I think, are lies from CBS. I always believed that Quads were people that have lost the use of all four limbs, from the video it appears that the man has use of both arms. Wouldn't it have been enough of a story if CBS said Paraplegic thrown from a wheel chair by police? But maybe my definition of quadriplegic is wrong, please correct me.

Either way what do you think of the video?

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[Mozzes]

Apparently a quadriplegic is just somebody who has experienced a loss of function in all four limbs but it doesn't have to be a complete or permanent loss of control. At least that's what wikipedia says.

[Deadgod]

I'm having trouble seeing the CBS video so a youtube link would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not bothered so much for the whole disturbance of the actions done but by the idea that maybe there's a survival instinct or switch that turns on the movement of arms when a quadriplegic is put in a dangerous situation. It's either that or the fact that CBS is indeed full of it. Strangely, I'm inclined towards the latter.

[sam988]

I have the problem too, fucking internet explorer window just freezes.

[Serpent7]

I don't really see there is much 'controversy' or need for a real discussion here. No one (Well, almost no one) will say it looks ok.
However, I wish I could say I was surprised. Cops and social workers (soldiers too, but that is for another discussion) often experience 'empathy fatigue', and just lose sight of what the job really is. People in the system often find themselves getting callous and overly harsh treatment, not because of anything they did, but just because the person they are dealing with has seen too much pain and suffering. Or worse, they have encountered too many scammers trying to BS them.

[Beery Swine]

It's time for me to say something even more unpopular. Cops are douchebags, almost all of them. Their usually stupid jocks who coasted along through high school playing sports but weren't good enough for the pros. Once they realize might doesn't make right in most of the real world, they find one of the few jobs where it does. This is the rule, and there are exceptions to every rule, and if you think that most cops are good people you either haven't met many or are friends with at least one, possibly one of the exceptions, but I doubt it.

While I am completely biased on this subject, it is not because I or anyonoe I know have ever been arrested (because neither I nor "they" have). It is through conversations with cops, mostly, and plenty of news stories like this one, most far worse.