Jackson County Deputy Brian Kolkemo has been caught red-handed slapping a 63-year-old disabled man in the face before “dumping him on the floor of the cell to wet himself after he got a chair stuck in the grate and threw stones at the window to summon help.”
The Daily Mail has the details;
An Oregon sheriff’s deputy has been caught red handed slapping a disabled man across his face as three other officers pushed his wheelchair into a jail cell.
John Malaer, 63, was left partially naked on the floor of the cell wearing a tiny jail smock that didn’t cover his body by officers at Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
He claims he had no access to a catheter that he needed to relieve himself and ended up in the cell after his wheelchair got stuck in a sidewalk.
Malaer was forced to throw stones at a nearby store in an attempt to grab the attention of those inside for help on 11 July 2019, when he was 60, but was instead arrested.
The advocate for homeless people with disabilities spent 20 hours in custody on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment before being released and the charges dismissed.
Horrific footage shows the disabled man being slapped by Jackson County Deputy Brian Kolkemo before he is dragged from his wheelchair.
Kolkemo, who earns $75,875 a year, can be seen forcefully hitting the disabled activist and admitted to investigating officers he slapped him again – describing it as a ‘distraction blow’.
He told state police that Malaer was waving his arms and grabbing at deputies as they tried to put jail scrubs on him, adding that he chose to slap him instead of dumping him out of the chair.
Malaer drags himself onto the mat while shouting for help, with another deputy admitting to slapping him again during an investigation by state police.
He was forced to urinate on the jail cell floor multiple times because he didn’t have his catheter, and only had access to water via the cell’s toilet because he couldn’t reach the sink.
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