The Newshour Debate: America's racist cops exposed - 2
  • 9 years ago
In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Harish Salve, Former Solicitor General; Alyssa Ayres, Senior fellow for India, Pak & South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations; Ravi Batra, Senior Advocate; Lord Meghnad Desai, Economist; Maj Gen (Retd) G D Bakshi, Defence analyst; and Sanjay Hegde, Sr Advocate, SC -- discuss the issue of 57-year-old Indian man being assaulted by cops in the US for not knowing English, and the incident condemned by Indian community membersacross the globe.

One of the two police officers who allegedly assaulted the 57-year-old Indian man in Alabama has been arrested and FBI will be conducting a probe into the matter to find out if there were any federal violations in the incident. Larry Muncey, the Madison City Chief of Police while apologising to the victim Sureshbhai Patel, who was wrongfully assaulted by two police officers, without any provocation just because he did not know English and was unable to answer to their questions, informed that Federal Bureau of Investigation will also be conducting a probe into the matter. The incident occurred on the morning of February 6 while walking down the sidewalk in the neighbourhood. Patel, a permanent US resident, "was violently assaulted by a police official without provocation, and left partially paralysed," according to the 11-page lawsuit filed. A day before, Patel had arrived in the United States to assist his son and daughter-in-law in caring for their 17-month-old child, who was developmentally delayed after a premature birth In the video, Patel is seen walking quietly in a sidewalk. He is not seen peeping at any of the houses or garage as was the police told in an non-emergency call it received from a neighbour, after which a police car was rushed to the neighbourhood. In the video, two police officers are see approaching Patel and asking him questions like name, address and identity card. Patel is heard saying "No English" and pointing figure toward