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Sunday, August 20, 2023

I'm A Disabled Veteran! The Cops Allowed A Restaurant Discriminate Against Me And Made Me Soil Myself!

This is how veterans are treated.
The Dallas Police still haven't learned their lesson. 

When Botham Jean was killed by an off duty Dallas Police officer, the agency promised to reform. But so far there were more police shootings of unarmed suspects, more brutal abuse by officers and insults towards suspects.

Here we have a military veteran who was left with a permanent disability denied services and told that he was banned from entry. He literally urinated on himself because the pizza restaurant and Dallas Police disrespect him. 

They laughed at him and it was caught on body camera.

Four Dallas police officers were caught on video laughing about a disabled veteran urinating on himself after he was denied access to a restaurant bathroom.

The veteran, Dynell Lane, told the Dallas Community Police Oversight Board that he asked two off-duty police officers who were working security at Serious Pizza to review his medical paperwork at around 2:15 a.m. on June 10 after employees said he couldn't use the restrooms, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Lane called 911, but officers did not arrive in time, and he said he left after he had a "urine and bowel leak issue," the paper reported.

Two on-duty police officers arrived at the restaurant, and body-camera footage shows them asking the off-duty cops about someone who reported having "pissed themselves," according to the local paper.

"So you guys made a guy pee himself?" one of the on-duty officers said while laughing and bringing her a fist to her mouth.

One of the off-duty officers smiles and says, "Yeah," while the other one questions: "He called 911?" 

When the on-duty officers respond affirmatively, one of the off-duty officers exclaims, "Ah!" and slaps his knee while laughing, the paper reported.

Laughing at a man urinating on himself after being trespassed from a restaurant.

"He got mad you guys wouldn't let him use the restroom, and then he calls back and said it's OK; he doesn't need to pee anymore because he soiled —" one of the on-duty officers says before the other one appears to shut off the body camera filming the exchange.

"The Dallas Police Department failed me," Lane told oversight members, the Dallas Morning News reported. "Two Dallas police officers discriminated against me and declined to assist me in bridging the gap between myself and the Serious Pizza manager."

Several states, including Texas, have a restroom access law known as "Ally's Law," which requires establishments to allow individuals with certain medical conditions to access their restroom facilities when needed.

"If a retail establishment chooses to ignore a person who is trying to present such documents, they should be held accountable," Lane told the oversight board, the paper reported. He added that this is one of the reasons the Americans with Disabilities Act is in place.

The department's internal-affairs division initially found that the officers did not violate department policy, the paper reported.

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