A disabled veteran won a $250,000 settlement after a Park Ranger arrested him over a handicapped parking spot
By Alex Horton Alex Horton General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 2 at 7:35 PM Militants in southern Afghanistan had already salted the earth with bombs when Sgt. Dominic Esquibel led his Marines through Sangin. On his final patrol, the ground ruptured under his feet in an explosion of light and blood.“I thank God it was me,” he told author Bing West from a hospital bed in 2011, “rather than one of my men.
The federal government settled for $250,000 in March to avoid a trial scheduled for last week. A charge of failing to follow a lawful order was dropped in 2014. “You can’t park there, it’s a handicapped spot,” the employee yelled out to him, Esquibel said. He said he was disabled. “I can see that you’re not,” she snapped back, and threatened she would call the police. “Please do,” he replied.
Then Parrack delivered kicks between Esquibel’s feet to separate his legs. He grimaced in agony, he said, shouting about his war injury as his wife cried out. He couldn’t spread his legs any further, and trying to balance himself only prompted the rangers to kick him more, he said. Parrack pulled up Esquibel’s jeans leg to reveal the brace. As he did so, his partner muttered an expletive, indicating they knew they had messed up, according to Esquibel.
“He didn’t feel right about the award,” his attorney Butch Wagner said. “He said it was something fellow Marines would have done for him.” Esquibel declined to discuss his time in uniform.
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