Sureshbhai Patel suffered  a fused vertebrae in a police beating that occurred while he was walking in a White neighborhood. Credit: al.com

Sureshbhai Patel suffered a fused vertebrae in a police beating that occurred while he was walking in a White neighborhood.
Credit: al.com

Police in Madison, Alabama last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son’s home, leaving the older man temporarily paralysed and hospitalised with fused vertebrae, the news web site al.com reported.

The man, Sureshbhai Patel, had committed no crime. Madison Police on Monday issued a statement saying the officer involved had been suspended, and his use of force was being investigated. The statement wished Patel a “speedy recovery”, al.com said.

The report, by Challen Stephens, a reporter and editor based in Huntsville, Alabama, quoted Patel’s son, Chirag, as saying, “He was just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time… They (the police) put him to the ground.”

The report said Patel belongs to Pij, and quoted Chirag as saying he had arrived in […]

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