Javier Ortega, Jr. lives with seizures and when he has an incident, he rarely remembers. This past December Ortega was in a car crash and there seems to be two sides of the story in Texas -- U.S.A.
Ortega’s mother believes her son experienced a seizure while behind the wheel and crashed into a rock wall.
The responding officer thought Ortega was drunk and resisting arrest. Ortega was tasered at least three times during the altercation and left with several injuries.
A doctor told KFOX14 that police may have thought he was resisting arrest but that his resistance was simply a symptom of the seizure.
“If a person does not know what a seizure is, they will not know this is a seizure,” said Dr. Darine Kassar, a neurologist at Texas Tech University Health Science Center.
“They will not know what happened, they will be confused, they will be disoriented. What happened they can be combative they can be not following commands because they are confused, they are not back to their normal baseline,” said Kassar.
She explained post-seizure phase can go on for minutes or even hours.
“Don’t try to restrain them or be aggressive with them because they are still not back to their normal selves,” Kassar continued.
Possibly another horrible example of cops treating everyone as a criminal.
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