Pot-smoking diabetic woman receives $125,000 settlement after police abuse

Source: Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

A woman arrested for smoking pot on the Lower East Side last year actually came out of the ordeal not with a ticket, but instead with a $125,000 settlement check from the New York Police Department, the New York Post reported.

The woman, Jaime Rutkowski, is diabetic. While police held her after arrest in October, they confiscated her blood testing kit, refusing to let her check her blood sugar or self-administer insulin. She was eventually rushed to a hospital by EMTs, her blood sugar three times higher than normal level.

"Any endocrinologist will confirm that this is enough for a Type-1 diabetic to go into shock, slip into a coma, and die," her lawyer Joel Berger told the Post.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/19/pot-smoking-diabetic-woman-receives-125000-settlement-after-police-abuse/

The term implies that they are actually worthy of honor.

a friend of mine was caught up in a massive sweep by the police & thrown into jail. This would not be terribly unusual perhaps, except that he was a kidney transplant inpatient at University Hospitals at the time and had been allowed out on a little walk while awaiting his transplant operation. He had no kidneys in his body when arrested, and spent the night in the Dane County slammer without kidneys. Somehow, given his medical condition, I doubt that he had done much to warrant his arrest.