Cops Arrest Sober Stroke Victim for Public Intoxication --On Her Porch

Fucking pigs -- absolutely worthless. Even if this woman had been drinking it wasn't truly "public intoxication" -- she was in her own home!

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by REBECCA LOPEZ

Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM

DALLAS - Police have launched an investigation into the arrest of a stroke victim.

Dianne Irons slurs her words and has trouble walking. Twenty years ago, Irons had a stroke that impaired her speech.

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Officers were called to her home because she and her nephew were having an argument over living arrangements. According to Irons, when officers arrived, they talked to her for a little while and then asked her to step out onto her porch, which was when she arrested for public intoxication.

“I told them I don't drink," she said.

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She called Ben Irons, her son, to let him know police were at the home. He said he then tried to explain to officers his mother was a stroke victim and not drunk. When he arrived at the house, officers wouldn’t listen to him, he said.

“The officer told me to sit down and if I said one more word that I was going to be arrested," her son said.

He said he tried to show police his mother's medical records that show she goes to speech therapy.

“And I got arrested for that," he said of his attempt.

"She just came over here with a chip on her shoulder and hauling people off to jail," her son said.

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