Black School Prinicipal Suing Springfield Police For Alleged Beating
Monday, January 17, 2005 at 01:18AM
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Says Cops Dragged Him Through Car Window - Door was UNLOCKED
A school principal who says he was beaten by at least four city police
officers while having a diabetic attack is suing the officers, accusing
them of dragging him through his car window and calling him a drug user
before getting him medical help. Douglas Greer, principal of the Robert
M. Hughes Academy Charter School in Springfield, is seeking an
unspecified amount of money in the lawsuit he filed Friday in U.S.
District Court in Springfield. The lawsuit says Greer pulled his BMW
into a convenience store parking lot on Nov. 4 when he started feeling
disoriented, a symptom of the onset of a diabetic attack. A store clerk
called the police after noticing Greer's car had been parked for
awhile. When the police arrived, they broke the car windows and pulled
Greer out through the shattered passenger's side window, even though
his car doors were unlocked, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit goes on to
describe how officers Jeffrey Asher, James Kervick, James Shewchuck and
James Moriarty, kicked, choked and beat Greer. The officers have denied
Greer's accusations. The lawsuit says Greer repeatedly told the
officers he was diabetic and said he needed juice or sugar to stave off
his diabetic attack. "The police defendants nonetheless continued to
beat and kick him and repeatedly yell that he was on drugs," the
lawsuit says. Greer says the police hit him with what he believed to be
nightsticks and a flashlight, then handcuffed him behind his back and
shackled his legs. [more]
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