Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana

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Florida man seriously injured and unable to speak after encounter with police, daughter says after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana - Wired Posts
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A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he is hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.

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In the US steal a banana get paralyzed, somehow private property even if just a banana is worth more than people

He wasn't even stealing anything. It has nothing to do with theft and everything to do with his skin color I guarantee it.

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