[Nfbmo] Blind Woman with Dog & Police

[Bryan Schulz]

Hi,

The news tries to sensationalize stories as the anchor made it sound like it
just happened last weekend.
Bryan

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The article in this post is a verbatim quote from  the Post-dispatch story 
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/off-duty-st-louis-office
r
-dragged-blind-woman-and-dog/article_c78a7356-399f-53ca-bc0a-1411adbb0bb2.ht
ml
 
I also found a link to a Fox 2 news story on the episode:
 
http://kplr11.com/2015/06/24/lawsuit-alleges-blind-woman-dragged-out-of-bar-
by-off-duty-officer/
 
    The video isn't as comprehensive as the PD article, but  the clip ends 
with a snide insinuation about Ms. Quesada: "We should mention  that Quesada

has filed a federal suit before" - and not mentioning, as the PD  article 
did, what the previous suit was regarding,   The implication  is that
Quesada 
abuses the court system.
      There is a short clip of Quesada walking her  black poodle guide dog 
Donny, and a short interview on her porch.  The  clip isn't very well 
written, delivered and/or edited.  The anchors refer  to quesada filing a
federal 
city rights suit (sic), and the security guard is  described as 'very 
friendly to the customers' at Caleco's - he still works  there.
 
Dan
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/25/2015 4:13:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
nfbmo at nfbnet.org writes:

I got this  from another list. 
Off-duty cop dragged blind woman and dog out of bar,  suit says. By Robert 
Patrick St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ST. LOUIS A federal  civil rights lawsuit 
filed Tuesday claims that an off-duty police officer  handcuffed a blind 
woman without cause and dragged her and her dog out of a  St. Louis bar. The

suit says that Marvelena Quesada had left Caleco's Bar  & Grill , 1010 North

Broadway, on Oct. 28, 2013 as the bar was closing,  but returned to help her

friend settle her bill. As she was paying the bill at  the bar, an off-duty 
officer, William Clinton, "told her to 'get out and get  out now,'" the suit

says, and refused to wait while she stowed her debit card  and wallet in her

purse. Quesada heard the jangling of handcuffs, and Clinton  saying, "I 
said now, bitch!

You're

going to jail," the suit  claims. Clinton handcuffed her and pulled her and 
pulled her off her chair,  causing her to hit her head on the floor, the 
suit says. He then dragged her  out of bar and down the sidewalk on her
back, 
the suit says. The leash for  Quesada's guide dog was on her arm, the suit 
says, and the dog was dragged  into chairs and tables. Outside Caleco's, as 
Quesada screamed for help, her  friend and other patrons successfully urged 
Clinton to release her, the suit  says. Quesada suffered cuts and bruises, a

back injury, depression and loss of  sleep due to nightmares. She was 
confined to her bed for weeks afterward, the  suit says. The two-count
lawsuit 
seeks unspecified compensation for  unreasonable seizure and assault and 
battery.

Clinton

could not  be immediately reached for comment. Quesada, 40, is the 
vice-president of the  Braille Revival League of Missouri, which advocates
for the 
"use, production,  and instruction of braille. She was also one of the 
plaintiffs involved in a  successful federal suit against the Social
Security 
Administration that said  that the agency refused to correspond with the
blind 
in any way other than  printed letters and other notices that they couldn't 
read. In 2009, a judge  ordered the administration to correspond in a format

that is accessible to  them, including at least Braille and the use of CDs. 
Robert  Patrick

314-621-5154 @rxpatrick on Twitter  RPatrick at post-dispatch.com
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