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unhappycamper

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Tue Aug 11, 2015, 08:02 AM Aug 2015

WATCH: Disabled vet rips cop who told him he couldn’t park in handicap spot because ‘you can walk’ [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/watch-disabled-vet-rips-cop-who-told-him-he-couldnt-park-in-handicap-spot-because-you-can-walk/



A Riviera Beach police officer

WATCH: Disabled vet rips cop who told him he couldn’t park in handicap spot because ‘you can walk’
Tom Boggioni
10 Aug 2015 at 09:56 ET

A Florida police officer received an earful from a disabled veteran after harassing him for parking in a handicap spot in front of a Walgreen’s store, despite the fact that the veteran had a handicap sticker in his window.

In the video — uploaded to Facebook — the veteran identifies himself as Isiah James and goes off on an expletive-filled tirade against the officer. He explains that he received multiple wounds after serving three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and being blown up eight times by “motherf*cking IEDs.”

Things turn even more contentious after the officer, identified as G. Wilson, smacks the camera out of the veteran’s hand — cracking the screen — and causing James to call for another officer saying Wilson is “out of control.”

“Officer, I’m a damned disabled veteran,” James explains to the Riviera Beach officer.
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