{"id":86104,"date":"2019-04-08T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86104"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:00:10","slug":"86104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86104","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This goes back 7 years, but lawsuits do take time to settle out.<\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 In 2012, a disabled Marine veteran was visiting the Sequoia National Park in California, where he says a National Park Service ranger used excessive force against him over his use of a handicapped parking spot.<\/p>\n

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Dominic Esquibel<\/a>\u00a0said that despite displaying an appropriate handicapped marker, a park ranger didn\u2019t believe he was disabled. Esquibel wears brace on his leg for an injury from a 2011 bomb explosion in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The end of the confrontation allegedly ended with the parking ranger kicking the Marine veteran\u2019s injured leg and handcuffing him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m combat wounded, and you\u2019re kicking my salvaged limb,\u201d Esquibel said he told the ranger and his nearby partner, according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A charge against Esquibel for failing to follow a lawful order was dropped, but he filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the excessive force that could result in the loss of his leg. — Article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/04\/03\/marine-vet-disabled-in-sangin-explosion-wins-250000-settlement-after-park-ranger-allegedly-used-excessive-force-over-a-handicapped-spot\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Esquibel lost his heel and part of the ankle, and has been wearing a brace to provide support.\u00a0 Since there are no real details in regard to what happened between the park ranger and the Marine, a judgment call is difficult to make. Likewise, there is nothing about what happened to the park ranger afterwards, which makes information incomplete. And the term “handicapped” does not necessarily mean that the handicapped person requires the use of a wheelchair or anything else.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t feel like digging up the details of Esquibel’s lawsuit or the written copy of the charge against him, which was dropped.<\/p>\n

However, I am unaware of any training for park rangers that includes physical roughness in regard to park visitors, whether it’s a county, state or national park. I’m not saying that there are no such obnoxious people acting as park rangers. The only physical activity I can think of that might be required includes confronting an intoxicated idiot, or, as my nephew discovered when he worked briefly as a park ranger, stopping poachers and smugglers in their tracks.\u00a0But it did, after all, take place during a prior administration.\u00a0 YMMV. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This goes back 7 years, but lawsuits do take time to settle out. From the article:\u00a0 … Lawsuit Settled<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86105,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86104\/revisions\/86105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}