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Subject: Deputies Sue Diabetic Driver They Beat After Traffic Stop
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Subject: Deputies Sue Diabetic Driver They Beat After Traffic Stop

Source:
AB7 News - Wash. D.C.
http://wjla.com/

Deputies Sue Diabetic Driver They Beat After Traffic Stop
http://wjla.com/showstory.hrb?f=n&s=15404&f1=loc

Deputies Sue Diabetic Driver They Beat After Traffic Stop
August 10, 2001 10:07am

Producer: Suleiman Wali

Baltimore - Two Frederick County sheriff's deputies are suing a diabetic man
they beat after a traffic stop, contending his complaints about the incident
hurt their careers.

Eric J. Winer and Jeffrey A. Norris are seeking more than $68,000 from
Frederick T. "Tom" Moore IV of Virginia in a lawsuit moved last week to U.S.
District Court in Baltimore. Moore filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in
federal court last year, accusing the officers of violating his civil
rights.

Both lawsuits stem from a June 12, 1998 incident, in which the deputies
suspected Moore of drunken driving before discovering he was suffering from
diabetic shock.

Court records indicate the officers chased Moore's Toyota truck about nine
miles on Route 15 in Frederick County before they were able to block and
stop him.

When Moore still failed to heed their commands - doctors later said he was
slipping into a diabetic coma - the deputies broke a window to his truck,
doused him with pepper spray, beat him with a police baton and sent a police
dog into the truck.

Only after Moore was removed from the truck did the officers notice a card
identifying the driver as a diabetic hanging from the truck's rearview
mirror, the officers' complaint says, whereupon they immediately called for
medical help.

Moore spent four days in the hospital for dog bites and other wounds from
the beating, but the officers' complaint says he apologized to them "for any
harm he may have caused" at the emergency room.

The incident prompted a local grand jury inquiry and investigations by the
U.S. Justice Department and the FBI for possible civil rights violations.
None of the probes led to criminal charges.

In their lawsuit, however, the officers say the inquiries and publicity
portrayed them unfairly. They contend Moore's criticism of them in media
interviews was "highly offensive," considering they had "prevented serious
harm, injury and/or death" to Moore.

©2001 WJLA-TV. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights
reserved.


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