A blind man was arrested and spent 26 hours in prison after Florida police thought his cane was a gun.
James Hodges, 61, was arrested by two officers for ‘resisting arrest without violence’ on October 31.
It took more than a day for the 61-year-old to be released, who then uploaded the bodycam footage onto YouTube. In the video, Deputy Sheriff Ghode can be heard telling the blind man she had stopped him as she thought he had a weapon in his pocket.He said: ‘What’s the problem, are you a tyrant?’James Hodges spent 26 hours in prison despite not having done anything wrong
She insisted she was suspicious he was carrying a weapon illegally, and threatened to place Mr Hodges in handcuffs.Deputy Jayme Lee Gohde admitted she was a ‘tyrant’ and told Mr Hodges to stop ‘being a d***’Ghode then detained Mr Hodges, who asked to speak to her supervisor who arrived at the scene.Ghode said: ‘Alright, Mr Hodges, was that hard?’Losing his temper, the second officer decided to place him under arrest.
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