Last month, police officers in College Park, Georgia detained Charles Read for felony assault charges, alleging that he kicked down his ex-girlfriend's door and attempted to strangle her. The only problem? Read is paraplegic—and has been for more than 20 years. Despite the obvious discrepancy, police officers still handcuffed Read and tried to take him to jail, even as the same officers seemed unsure if it was physically possible for him to have committed the crime in the first place.
"If she made a false report, that's going to be on her . . . It's a warrant now. I have to go ahead and take you in. So now that's gonna be up to you and the courts and your lawyers and her to establish your innocence," Officer Mark Belotte told Read in body camera footage obtained by Reason. "So at this point, she says you kicked down her door. It don't look like you could kick anything, no offense, at this point in time."
