-=> ROSS CASSELL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 WC> I OTOH was left crippled for LIFE by police misconduct in the form of
 WC> some idiot cop tailgating me from 13th AVE. N. to approx. 3 Ave, N.
 WC> 34th street Saint Petersburg on Nov 10, 1990.

 WC> Tailgating at a distance of no more that TWO FEET the entire time!

 RC> Hindsight being 20/20, why didnt you pull over in a 7-11 or grocery
 RC> store parking lot or other public place? Surely if you had and this cop
 RC> was going to brutalize you, you would have had witness a plenty, nice
 RC> platform for a lawsuit?

Answered over and over and over again for YEARS now.

In a BOX.

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| Car
|    2 feet 
| Me Car
|    2 feet
| Patrol Car
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Median strip

How does one pull over when one is completely BOXED IN?

I never mastered the illusionary ability you seem to think I have of being
able to DRIVE THROUGH SOLID AUTOMOBILES in order to have pulled over.

Again you demonstrate you've NO IDEA what it is you are talking about.

Lawsuit?

I was in deep shock.

Denied medical attention of any sort.

And why should I have had to pull over in the FIRST place?

I had not engaged in any sort of illegal driving, the COP did by tailgating 
to the point that I was SO narrowly focused on keeping from dying IMMEDIATELY
and trying to keep equidistant between those two bumpers I blew through
5th Ave. N. southbound having no idea whatever if the light was green or red.

The ONLY reason I knew I'd gone through that intersection was
I knew where I was, that I'd passed 9th N. and I saw the painted markings on
the roadway.

The car to my right overlapped the car in front by some 2 1/2 feet and the
patrol car
in back by some eight inches or so.

I've stated this now literally HUNDREDS of times over the last DECADE.
How STUPID ARE YOU?  


So 'pull over' by driving THROUGH the car in front?
Pull over by driving THROUGH the car to my right in the middle lane?

I had nightmares for 3 - 5 years where I relived this horror most every night
and it only occured to me the ONE option I might have had to save my ass
without having been crippled and that was I should have jumped onto the 
hood of the police car!!!!!

For no DAMNED reason at all this happened! 

I was THERE.
THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.

It is slightly annoying to spend my last days on Earth texting to an idiot
however trapped on a box spring lying in an apartment barely able to move
the damned computer is all I've got to pass the time of day.

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