{"id":102,"date":"2008-09-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/police-say-officer-feared-insulin-pump-was-weapon.html"},"modified":"2008-09-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T09:00:00","slug":"police-say-officer-feared-insulin-pump-was-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/police-say-officer-feared-insulin-pump-was-weapon.html","title":{"rendered":"Police say officer feared insulin pump was weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 9\/22\/2008 9:24 PM<br \/><br \/>DETROIT (AP) _ Police officers in two Detroit suburbs are accused of beating a motorist who was suffering a diabetic episode on a freeway.<br \/><br \/>Lawyer Arnold Reed says 59-year-old Ernest Griglen had brain surgery after the June 15 encounter with police and has been clinging to life with help from a ventilator.<br \/><br \/>Reed filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court seeking at least $20 million from Allen Park and Dearborn police. He says officers mistakenly believed Griglen was resisting arrest when he was having a major medical problem.<br \/><br \/>An Allen Park police report says Griglen&#8217;s car was swerving.<br \/><br \/>Allen Park police wouldn&#8217;t comment on the lawsuit. Dearborn police released a report saying an officer feared Griglen&#8217;s insulin pump was a weapon.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 9\/22\/2008 9:24 PMDETROIT (AP) _ Police officers in two Detroit suburbs are accused of beating a motorist who was suffering a diabetic episode on a freeway.Lawyer Arnold Reed says 59-year-old Ernest Griglen had brain surgery after the June 15 encounter with police and has been clinging to life with help from a ventilator.Reed filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,432,434,109,433],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury-attorney","tag-brain-injury-beating","tag-brain-inury-lawyer","tag-diabetes","tag-police-beating"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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