Police officers in West Virginia brutally arrested a 39-year-old father of two who they say appeared intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly while walking them to the park.

But his outraged family denies that 39-year-old Jeffrey Bane was under the influence on Sept. 6, when he was left choking in his own blood and pleading for help while he was pinned to the ground by four Granville PD cops during the Sept. 6 arrest in Morgantown.

The whole arrest takes some 10 minutes and was recorded in a shocking video uploaded to YouTube.

The family says Bane suffers from Huntington's disease, a genetic and terminal illness that causes sufferers to increasingly lose their motor functions, at times appearing to be under the influence.

huntingdons Wrote:
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> Police officers in West Virginia brutally arrested
> a 39-year-old father of two who they say appeared
> intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly
> while walking them to the park.
>
> But his outraged family denies that 39-year-old
> Jeffrey Bane was under the influence on Sept. 6,
> when he was left choking in his own blood and
> pleading for help while he was pinned to the
> ground by four Granville PD cops during the Sept.
> 6 arrest in Morgantown.
>
> The whole arrest takes some 10 minutes and was
> recorded in a shocking video uploaded to YouTube.
>
> The family says Bane suffers from Huntington's
> disease, a genetic and terminal illness that
> causes sufferers to increasingly lose their motor
> functions, at times appearing to be under the
> influence.

It is a f^&ed up situation. Huntington's is horrible and you need more info before passing judgement. The police may have been right.

This is a list of Symptoms. They basically go crazy and get violent.

Symptoms
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Huntington's disease usually causes movement, cognitive and psychiatric disorders with a wide spectrum of signs and symptoms. Which symptoms appear first varies greatly among affected people. During the course of the disease, some disorders appear to be more dominant or have a greater effect on functional ability.

Movement disorders

The movement disorders associated with Huntington's disease can include both involuntary movements and impairments in voluntary movements:

Involuntary jerking or writhing movements (chorea)
Muscle problems, such as rigidity or muscle contracture (dystonia)
Slow or abnormal eye movements
Impaired gait, posture and balance
Difficulty with the physical production of speech or swallowing
Impairments in voluntary movements — rather than the involuntary movements — may have a greater impact on a person's ability to work, perform daily activities, communicate and remain independent.

Cognitive disorders

Cognitive impairments often associated with Huntington's disease include:

Difficulty organizing, prioritizing or focusing on tasks
Lack of flexibility or the tendency to get stuck on a thought, behavior or action (perseveration)
Lack of impulse control that can result in outbursts, acting without thinking and sexual promiscuity
Lack of awareness of one's own behaviors and abilities
Slowness in processing thoughts or ''finding'' words
Difficulty in learning new information
Psychiatric disorders

The most common psychiatric disorder associated with Huntington's disease is depression. This isn't simply a reaction to receiving a diagnosis of Huntington's disease. Instead, depression appears to occur because of injury to the brain and subsequent changes in brain function. Signs and symptoms may include:

Feelings of irritability, sadness or apathy
Social withdrawal
Insomnia
Fatigue and loss of energy
Frequent thoughts of death, dying or suicide
Other common psychiatric disorders include:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, a condition marked by recurrent, intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors
Mania, which can cause elevated mood, overactivity, impulsive behavior and inflated self-esteem
Bipolar disorder, or alternating episodes of depression and mania
In addition to the above symptoms, weight loss is common in people with Huntington's disease, especially as the disease progresses.

Symptoms of juvenile Huntington's disease

The onset and progression of Huntington's disease in younger people may be slightly different from that in adults. Problems that often present themselves early in the course of the disease include:

Behavioral changes

Loss of previously learned academic or physical skills
Rapid, significant drop in overall school performance
Behavioral problems
Physical changes

Contracted and rigid muscles that affect gait (especially in young children)
Changes in fine motor skills that might be noticeable in skills such as handwriting
Tremors or slight involuntary movements
Seizures

I have Cuntington's disease. Could you please list they symptoms below?

Soulmasstransit Wrote:
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> I have Cuntington's disease. Could you please list
> they symptoms below?

Regular bleeding from the crotch area.

Loss of rationality, increase in emotionally driven thinking and actions.

Increase in hesitation, panickiness.

Decreased ability to operate a motor vehicle.