{"id":19524,"date":"2013-01-10T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/10\/282823\/blind-man-seeks-uk-police-compensation\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T14:40:10","slug":"blind-man-seeks-uk-police-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/blind-man-seeks-uk-police-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind man seeks UK police compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">A British blind man tasered by UK police seeks compensation.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>A British blind man has issued a compensation claim for being tasered by UK police officers, who claim to have mistaken his white stick for a samurai sword.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old Collin Farmer claimed damages for assault, false imprisonment and a breach of his human rights in a letter to Lancashire Constabulary.<\/p>\n<p>He is also seeking a declaration of incompatibility from the High Court in relation to the use of the 50,000-volt Taser guns by the British police.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer, who was thrown to the ground, had his arm wrenched by the officer and was handcuffed in the town centre in Chorley, Lancashire, on October 12, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He said the police blunder could have killed him who had suffered two strokes.<\/p>\n<p>The British police have a record of targeting physically disabled people for no good reason, including the 20-year-old Jody McIntyre who was beaten with batons and pulled from his wheelchair and across the ground during London student protests of December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>MOS\/SSM\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British blind man tasered by UK police seeks compensation.<br \/>\nA British blind man has issued a compensation claim for being tasered by UK police officers, who claim to have mistaken his white stick for a samurai sword.<br \/>\nThe 61-year-old Collin Farmer clai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}