Missouri man wants name cleared after cops pepper-sprayed and arrested him as teen daughter died

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/27/missouri-man-wants-name-cleared-after-cops-pepper-sprayed-and-arrested-him-as-teen-daughter-died/

A Missouri man insists he did nothing to deserve being pepper-sprayed and arrested the night his teenage daughter shot herself.

Kevin Russell, of Joplin, said he won’t accept an offer to plead guilty to assault because he doesn’t want to admit he did anything wrong when he screamed at emergency crews tending to his 16-year-old daughter, Brooke.

Russell and his son, 19-year-old Brant, found the girl unconscious from a single gunshot wound to the head in a park near their home, and they loaded her into their car and met an ambulance at the police department.

“To me, time was everything,” Russell toldKSPR-TV. “I was going, ‘Let’s go, get her to the hospital, hurry up, hurry up.’”

So when an emergency medical technician turned away from Brooke to ask him what had happened, instead of seeing the girl fall from the gurney, Russell said he became agitated.

“I started screaming and said, ‘Do your f-ing job, get her to the hospital,’ and the EMT put his finger in my face and said, ‘Calm down, sir,’” Russell said. “I was screaming, ‘Please get her to the hospital.’ And right about that time a police officer ran up on the sidewalk and I saw Brant go down.”

His son had been doused with a shot of pepper spray, Russell said, and he was sprayed, too, before both of them were taken to jail on misdemeanor charges for assault, disturbing the peace and obstruction of official business.

Russell said one of the arresting officers put a knee in his back and threatened to use his Taser stun gun if he didn’t get up.

were the police blind did they not see the ambulance and the daughter on or off the gurney, or like most here lately just didn't give a damn?

Russell and his son were handcuffed to a bench inside the police station for 3 ½ hours, and when they were released, they found out Brooke had died.

police need to have regular classes on listening and recognizing stress and stop smelling themselves, looks like some police forces are turning in to reactionary blue/black suits with a gun and a taser a club and peeper spray they seem to have such anger maybe because they can't shoot so they go overboard with the rest of their armament.

hard to tell your kids about the used to be officer friendly that was questionable than and MIA now.