Centro bus video shows Syracuse police tasering disabled man [View all]
Centro bus video shows Syracuse police tasering disabled man
Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse police tasered a disabled man three months ago on a Centro bus because he wouldn't sit down or step off.
In a video of the May 3 incident, taken from a security camera above the driver's seat, Brad Hulett can be heard yelling "Ow! Owwww!" after two police officers lift his shirt and hit him with a Taser in the back.
Hulett then falls as the officers, Sgt. William Galvin Jr. and Officer William Coleman, drag him off the bus. Outside the bus, Galvin stands over him as Hulett lies on the pavement at Centro's downtown hub.
"You want it again?" Galvin yells at Hulett in the video. "You want it again?"
Galvin then grabs Hulett's right foot and drags him about 10 feet along the pavement.
The officers charged Hulett with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
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Hulett has lived through tough times. In 1991, when he was 12, he was struck by two trains in Salina, one right after the other. Doctors had to remove a portion of his brain to save his life. He has a large dent in the right side of his skull.
The brain damage caused weakness on his left side. Hulett's left hand is almost useless. It's in a permanently curled position. He's walked with a cane ever since the incident on the bus.
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Shortly after that, both officers get behind Hulett and lift the back of his shirt.
"I'm going to hit you with a Taser, OK? Ready?" Galvin says in the video. Then there's a clicking sound of the Taser striking Hulett, and his cries of pain.
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