Female double amputee with no legs falls out of wheelchair and is left crying on the ground as cops make shocking arrest
The Florida woman was shouting out and struggling on the floor as the two officers stood over her and failed to help
A SHOCKING video shows a woman with no legs falling out of her wheelchair and being left struggling on the ground as two cops try to arrest her.
The double amputee can be heard shouting and crying in the footage, and the police officers stand over her and deliberate what to do.
The video was taken in South Miami-Dade, Florida, and the woman, Mary Brown, was being arrested for trespassing.
It was filmed by an onlooker, and it has caused the police department to look at how it treats disabled people.
Brown can be seen falling out of her wheelchair and onto the ground.
She shouts: “Stop hurting me,” and is clearly in distress as police handcuff her.
Then she says: “You see what you did?”
The clip shows the officers standing by, and neither of them makes any effort to help Brown, who is struggling and thrashing on the ground next to their cop car.
She has her bag around her neck and is clearly struggling to sit upright.
She reprimands the two men saying: “Just because I don’t have legs to move about like everyone else, I still was in my chair, and I deserved some respect."
Brown had her legs amputated from the knee down because of suffering from diabetes.
She lives close to the gas station where she was arrested by the cops, and panhandles.
Miami-Dade police said she was being arrested because she was trespassing.
Brown told: “I asked for help, help, help, over and over again. No one came.”
She went on to say she felt she had been "treated very wrong" and she was very unwell.
She said she did not think they knew how to handle someone who was in a wheelchair.
The video was recorded by Jay King, and he felt the officers should have made more of an effort to help her.
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He said: "It doesn’t have to go that far to where you can’t at least pick her up off the floor.
“No matter what she did, it wasn’t that bad."
Miami-Dade Police reviewed the footage and said in a statement the incident had made the force realise it needed to improve transport facilities when it came to "disabled individuals.
It then added in the release it would try to make sure "situations such as these" were "handled in a more amicable manner in the future.”
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